The Weirdos

“No.” “Yes. I want to go I want to please it would be a wonderful experience and a free home. “No.” there they will put us off as freaks and make us look like we're weirdos. “Well we kinda are we are freaks we have two heads Dot.” “So were still normal we can talk, walk, breathe, and do all the same things normal people do. “What if Elsa finds out it was us who killed mother, thats what she is going to use against us.” “ I know what you girls did you stabbed your mother and then stabbed…

You are just so weird sometimes.’ (...) I know what she’s thinking. She has a choice: She can hang out with me and get the reputation of being a creepy weirdo who might show up with a gun someday, or she can be a Martha--” (Anderson 106). This scene builds up the idea of people’s perception of Melinda and the repetitive story of how she’s weird. Melinda’s friend, Heather, is cutting her off in this scene…

frivolous things as greed, how dare such thoughts cross my mind. Noble Macbeth, that is how he is known throughout Scotland how could someone with such a reputation threaten his very character by being seduced by the likely hollow words of three weirdos. Not Macbeth that is for sure. The ominous darkness that looms ahead of my trail is caused the grievance of our former king not the dismay at a pore new king. Now allow my light to shine through the darkness and clear my head of such foolish…

It doesn’t help to be oversensitive, but sometimes it’s hard to avoid it. “Literary intellectuals love to sneer at polls and surveys,” writes Dominic Sandbrook in his determinedly informative and frequently entertaining attempt to analyse what makes British culture tick, “but historians cannot afford to do so.” The survey being putatively sneered at reveals the immense popularity of The Lord of the Rings; presumably the implications of that popularity, rather than the fact of it, which must…

“Brace face”, “You are ugly”, “Ugly duckling”, “You are fat”, “You are stupid”,” You are too thin”, “Weirdo”. These are just some of the comments that primary or high school learners come across when being bullied. Some of the above mentioned comments are from personal experiences I’ve had growing up. I was between the ages of 11-13 when I was bullied in Primary school. The first reason is, my front teeth used to stick out due to an underdeveloped jaw. Secondly, I had gone back to mainstream…

He exited his house and saw a huge crowd of people gathering and clapping as the helicopter came down. They were clapping for Fickerbopple. Fickerbopple wasn’t the weirdo at school anymore. He was the kid everyone wanted to be friends with because he was famous! They may have wanted to be his friend because he was famous, but they didn’t deserve him. They didn’t want to be his friend when he wasn’t famous so they…

I felt hurt. I felt like this is what the world thinks of me, as a weirdo. Now, I will totally call myself weird in any means necessary, because it’s true. But when people I don’t even know all calling me weird, strange, different, it hurts. That’s called stereotyping. “Stereotyping means holding a general or fixed belief…

sexual violence, one that is hidden under the auspices of a friend, and the other auspices of provocative women. Both phrases paint a picture of how women and men have different ideas of what constitutes consent. Usually people think a rapist is some weirdo in a back alley attacking a woman who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Unfortunately rapes like that do happen and those kind of rapes are usually the kind we see on the local news or the news paper; However, the…

Otherness is the separation by society through different lenses to stand out and be alienated. Many argue that Harry Potter as a series dwells deep in the topic of otherness; Harry is often seen as an “other” in many aspects: he is unsure as a wizard, becomes a hero, and is “The Chosen One.” In Marion Rana’s essay, “‘The less you lot have ter do with these foreigners, the happier yeh’ll be’: Cultural and National Otherness in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series”, Rena argues that despite the…

Just: based on or behaving according to what is morally right and fair. The story, Chains, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, talks about an African-American slave named Isabel, and her younger sister Ruth, who are sold a cruel household owned by Mr. and Mrs. Lockton, and managed by a housemaid named Becky. In this book, on page 3 of chapter 1, One can see that Isabel learned certain habits from her mother, like seeds implanted in her brain. The epigraph for this chapter is “Youth is the seed…