Question
Edward and Raphael add diversity to their communities.
Thesis
Outsiders change their surroundings for the better by introducing hpe, creativity and inspiration.
Synonyms
Diversity-variety, contrast, mixture
Community-slum, suburb, association
Topic sentences
-Outsiders improve their society and allow people to express their kindness and bring out their true selves.
-Outsiders do not behave the same way as everyone else and this benefits the community.
-The creativity and ingenuity that Outsiders display changes their communities forever.
Introduction
The Outsider characters Edward and Raphael from the movie ‘Edward Scissorhands’ and the novel ‘Trash’ change their bland and featureless environments by providing creativity and ambition to the locals. Edward is an Outsider by his appearance while Raphael is an Outsider by poverty. Their communities express kindness to them both. Both individual characters do not act in the way the inhabitants of the society or slum. This is positive for the community and the creativity of the Outsiders change their
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This means that in the dull and featureless suburb, Edwards presence creates excitement and causes the community to come together in wonder and curiosity of his gifts. By producing the new hairstyles and topiaries he is permitting the community to reveal their true personalities and so develops variation among the people. The dancing girl topiary created by Edward in a wide shot conveys that he is creating a symbol of freedom for the dull housewife. Edward frantically cutting the dogs hair in a low angle shot while not showing the appearance of the dog builds suspense as well as a sense of magic once the animal is eventually revealed in a wide shot. Edward is presented as a someone who creates excitement delight in the community. Edward is shown as a magician who creates magic and excitement in the
Edward Scissorhands is a fascinating story about a man created by Vincent Price, an inventor of amazing creations. A woman, Peg, finds Edward Scissorhands, while she looks for a customer for her makeup investment, alone in a dark and gloomy with uplifting topiary in the garden. Edward tells Peg that his father never woke up. Peg then takes Edward to her own home because she cannot bear the loneliness of Edward’s home. Edward then becomes famous around Peg’s neighborhood to being famous around town because of his outstanding scissorhands.
Tim Burton used a lot of symbolism throughout the story to show theme and as a result, we can know a lot more about Edward’s personality and about what he wants most. One thing that exhibits Ed’s childish side was the bushes; for example, the dinosaurs and the dolphins he created. The bush shaped hand that was in the dark mansion’s yard encapsulates Ed’s want for hands. Through these examples we can see the theme, sometimes your wants in life can shape what you do in your life because Ed’s wants showed through his actions.
Comparing and Contrasting can lead to very important and support ideas for your piece. What should, we think and write down that would be clear to the topic? The Outsiders gives us an opportunity, to analyze what is in the book and the movie. The book helps us analyze what information we need from the book and the movie.The book and the movie of The Outsiders provides many similarities and differences that can be compared and contrasted.
is that there are outsiders in today’s society. When one is made into an outsider, the bias
feel that they belong, it impacts their way of being, self-esteem, and pride positively. On
Stereotyping is a constant theme throughout The Outsiders. It may seem as if the Greasers are the ones that really have to deal with presumptions, but the Socs also have quite a bit of stereotyping to deal with. While the outside world tries to force these stereotypes onto the gangs, they also tend to assume things about each other. This leads to divisions between them that most likely would not exist if stereotyping was not so abundant. The Greasers are pegged as nasty hoodlum troublemakers that are dropouts and criminals. On the other hand, the Socs are made out to be the opposite- crisp, intelligent young adults that have no real problems. Many cases of stereotyping between the two groups leads to violence between them.
The outsiders demonstrates that how you look does not mean who you are. This is demonstrated throughout the entire story. I think the part of the novel where this was the most influential was when Johnny and Ponyboy were alone in the church and they got haircuts and bleached their hair. This shows that how you look does not mean who you are because when Johnny and Pony
A piece of literature that has a strong theme of equality was The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton. A character that definitely showed that was Dally. Dally was the tough guy of the group, a stone faced criminal. “Dally had spent three years on the wild side of New York and had been arrested by the age of ten” (Chapter 1 Page 10). This quotes shows Dally’s past and how he’s always been a thug and has known no other life. After the first few chapters Dally doesn't make many appearances but when he does they play a huge role. Every time Dally appears in the story he seems, softer. Towards the middle point Johnny and Ponyboy have to run away from the cops, so Dally brings them in tells them where to go and gives them whatever they needed to run away. Near the end of the story is where he definitely changed, after Johnny is hospitalized he is depressed because Johnny is really the only one he sympathizes for and cares about. This shows how vulnerable he is now with what happened to Johnny so how he would react to even more stuff happening to him is unknown. After the two gangs had their fight(s) Dally and Ponyboy speed down to the hospital to see Johnny but they were too late. By the time they got there Johnny was on his last legs and after a few words he died, sending Dally into an emotional breakdown. Dally bangs his fist on the wall yells at Johnny’s corpse and eventually runs away.
No one likes to be alone and stand out from the rest. Edward the main character in “Edward Scissorhands,” struggles to fit in with everyone in the community. This movie is about Edward, who has scissors as hands. He lives in a big castle on a big mountain looking over the town. The person who created him was just about to give him normal hands, but he died from a heart attack. For a while now, Edward has been living alone. One day, Peg a main character in the movie decides to take him home with her. Throughout the movie he starts to slowly adapt to the new environment and overcomes a few challenges. In the movie Edward Scissorhands,Tim Burton uses camera shots and camera movements to show the variance between the way Edward’s appearance and the way he is like.
Is everyone an outsider? We have been looking the concept of outsiders but are we also outsiders? “Othello”, by William Shakespeare, explores the idea of an outsider from the very beginning of the play. Equally so, “The Boat People-Big Trial” is a short story written by Herb Wharton and follows the concept of outsiders as it is about the Europeans coming to Australia and misjudging the Aboriginals again. The quote written by Meshell Ndegeocello “any ideas of ‘other’ are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of ‘normal’”, shows that to certain people ‘other’ can be totally different and non-conforming whereas to another group of people ‘otherness ‘ may be normal for them. People often get portrayed differently because of personal opinions and as a result derogatory and demeaning terms may be used. Therefore everyone is an outsider even though they may not know it. Both successfully explore the context of otherness as it relates to outsiders.
...d traditions, but also blending two distant genres together. The blending of genres gives us ideas about common conventions in films that we do not usually pay attention to, and how they can be manipulated to change the way we think about individuals and groups. Edward Scissorhands dives deeper than just a “Beauty and the Beast” narrative, and influences audiences to explore topics of how the gentlest of souls can be misjudged by their appearance, a seemingly normal community can be the “bad guy” if it only has its personal intentions in mind and no one else’s, and that true love is not about what is on the outside, but rather, what is on the inside. Edward Scissorhands can be considered as one of the most appealing films of the 20th century as it keeps audiences guessing, surprises them at the most unexpected times and breaks conventional film boundaries.
Edward Scissorhands, written by Tim Burton, tells the tale of a young man who is lovable, childlike and sensitive, bewildered by the humanity around him, yet is terrifying- someone who has scissors, the deadly weaponry, for hands. Many viewers may read this film as a “Tim Burton” type of fairytale which includes both an alternative aspect and romance. However, through the presentation of mise-en-scene in this film, Burton drives in a much more serious subject of social criticism by establishing two different understandings of life in the movie.
Edward’s detachment from society is the result of a floozy’s lie, a deranged woman’s religious claims, and a teen with an inflated ego that all seem to hate Edward because of his differences and because they cannot tell what he is and what his intentions are. Edward is a good person and he is not even a real human being. He is more kind and uncorrupt then the real human beings who live in the community. It matters to Joyce, Esmeralda, and Jim that Edward be definable and that they can recognize him as something with emotions and motives. However, Edward does not make any sense to any of them at all and their prejudices continue to exist because they do not and will not take the time to figure out that Edward’s differences are actually not as horrific as they make them out to be.
Have you ever noticed those few people that are always by themselves or are alienated by others? Maybe it is because they may be poor, or how they dress, or where they are from. There are always those few people that are different, like in “The Doll’s house” how the Kelveys were alienated by their classmates due to what they wore and how they looked like. Being an outsider is universal because it happens in different places around the world. For instance, in “Sonnet, With Bird” the poem by Sherman Alexie, alienation happens all the way in England. Some might argue that it is not universal in the fact that everyone thinks differently or those who are alienated do not mind being alone and end up doing great things.
Further connections can be made between the suburban neighborhoods that Frankenweenie and Edward Scissorhands are set in and the conservative town in Burbank, California that Tim Burton grew up in. Burton was raised in an area of California that conformed to the stereotypical norms of mainstream America. Victor and Edward are both placed in ordinary, conformist worlds that accentuate their differences and individuality. In both of Tim Burton’s creations, the hedges that line the properties in the neighborhood are representative of commonplace suburbia. Edward uses these hedges to explore his artistic capabilities and bring life to the otherwise bland community. In Victor’s case, while trimming the hedges, Mayor Burgemeister throws hedge clippers at Victor with intentions to monitor where Sparky goes to the washroom. It has been suggested that at this point in the film the mayor is presented as the antithesis to Edward as he demands conformity and middle-class values (Weinstock). In each film there is also an apparent lack of support within the communities. In both situations the neighbors only unite when there is something to gossip about or something has gone terribly wrong. This depiction of suburbia unmistakably stems from Burton’s experiences. Burton expressed that: