Bridge To Terabithia Belonging Analysis

Choose a text that contains a clear representation of an outsider and/or adolescent. This may be a written or non-written text. In your presentation you need to evaluate whether your chosen text or Black Swan Green is a better representation of the outsider/adolescent. In your discussion you need to use examples from both texts to inform your discussion.

Please note that this is not a straight comparison of texts – you need to focus on how ideas are represented within them.

Introduction:
Bridge to Terabithia tells the story of a 5th grader who has a passion for drawing and art who experiences life as an outsider in both his home and at school. It is very similar plot wise to Black Swan Green and both texts have similar methods of representing an adolescent outsider. However there are some

Bridge to Terabithia does this best through the creative representation of Jess’s life through the kingdom of Terabithia. It does a very clear job of providing imagery to the troubles in his life. This imaginative kingdom makes the movie more engaging as his two worlds are juxtaposed and provides him with a method of expressing his teenage problems.

One of the reasons it more effectively presents Jess as an outsider is because of the friendship that is created between him and Leslie, and their common attribute of being out of the loop and being considered nobodies.

Furthermore, Bridge to Terabithia does a better job of representing an outsider and adolescent because it is a fully imagined movie which gives it the advantage of easily portraying an outsider with scenes of them clearly being excluded by others. In a novel the reader must use their own imagination to complete the picture and scenarios which may be somewhat constrained by the limited life experiences of the