Being An Outsider

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An outsider: a person who does not belong to a particular group. Outsiders are almost always portrayed as people who are shy or perhaps those who are divergent from the “norms” of society. In many books and movies the outsider is frequently the main character. Something about being different from others or “special” in a way, is eye catching. There's a certain peculiarity of being of variance; an ember in the ashes. Being an outsider isn’t a label. Many people who are anti-social are generally used for the term. Outsiders are always amongst us; we are all outsiders in ourselves. Everyone is an outsider at some point in their life. No one knows everything about you as an individual, everybody has secrets that they keep to themselves. Every person As this quote from The Metamorphosis shows part of having the feeling of being an outsider is being shut outside and blocked from others’ lives. Gregor was physically kept away in his bedroom and his family stopped coming to see him. They cut Gregor out of their life making him a true outsider. They rarely talked about him and it was only to talk about the annoyance of hs existence. He had went from being the man of the house to a bug under their shoes (literally) Being pushed away is something that is felt often on a daily basis and it is a key factor of the experience of being treated as an outsider. Being an outsider is sometimes referred as the shy people or the people who aren't as popular or maybe they just have different interests than the majority of others.This in fact is incorrect, not one person is an outsider. There are all different personalities such as outgoing or shy. Being an outsider is not a trait, it's an aspect that everyone will go through at a time in your life if you haven't already. We are all (as cheesy as it sounds) our own individually created snowflake affected by the elements around

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