Outsiders are mostly misunderstood since they get judged by their personal appearance. People don't see the personality of a person all they do is judge from the outside instead of going right into how they act. People don't see the positive side of people on the inside they just automatically think they are the bad person just by looking at them in the face. They don't see that some people have a special talent in them they just go for how they might act and then judge them for how they look. It’s just like how Gregor turned into a bug and everyone in his family hated him. When Gregor showed himself everyone freaked out of passed out(FK 138-139). It shows that most people who don’t look normal get misunderstood by the way they look or act.
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.
...ntinue too. People fear outsiders because the fear of otherization and the unknown scares people and “turns them off” from those who are different, and causes people to form stereotypes from events that have happened throughout the past.
“What sorts of excuses people had used on that first morning to get unable to ascertain. Since he was not comprehensible, nobody, not even his sister, thought that he might be able to understand others.” (Kafka, 154) He is the humanoid beetle that doesn't fit in with the rest of the Samsa family. This is where the misunderstood part begins to take place. Gregor is bewildered in the fact that he fell asleep human and woke up as a bug. His family tends to think that it is not even him, and misunderstands how he could have turned into a bug. Things are not the same, because nobody can comprehend what has happened and why. One reason Gregor is so misunderstood, revolves around a feeling of hate. Gregor is the one who did the work to pay for his family. The father was lazy, and the mother has bad asthma. Gregor payed all the bills. Once he can no longer work, his family may think that he did not want to pay the bills, therefore, they pushed him away as if he was never there. Also important, near the end of the story, we find out just how little Gregor is cared for. One of the most important parts of this
Gregor Samsa awakes one morning to discover that he has been transformed into a repugnant vermin. One may never know what initiated this makeover, but the simple truth is that Gregor is now a bug, and everyone must learn to live and move on in this strenuous situation. In Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, the characters that interact with Gregor, including his mother, his father, and his sister Grete, must come to terms with his unfortunate metamorphosis, and each does so by reacting in a unique way. Gregor’s family members are constantly strained by this unusual event, and all three of them are pressed to their breaking point.
Gregor’s family felt like he was a burden on them. They would make him feel isolated, unloved, and unwanted. One day Gregor cut a picture of a lady with fur out of a magazine and hung on the wall to make him feel better. People are not what they seem like people who dress, or act a certain way. In the real world people like Gregor are misunderstood and judged the wrong way. It is so difficult for society to overcome the looks of a person from the outside rather than the
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
Being an outsider is being different than everyone. Being a rebel. Being a menace to society. Being yourself and not caring about what the outside world thinks of you. You being yourself, an original person. For example, when my group of friends did not like any of the things that I did. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a novel based on a group of teenagers who are in a gang that call themselves “Greasers”. This group is fighting another group of people who call themselves the “Socials” Socs for short, but things take a drastic turn when murder gets involved in the equation. Ponyboy is a character in the book that is very outspoken. He is the youngest in his family and he goes through a lot during this short period of time.
Outsiders are good for society they think outside of the box the insiders made. For example thomas edison was an outsider that created light and electricity. Some outsiders are bad tho for example hitler was an outsider that killed millions of people. People just have to use there judgement on if an outsiders idea is good or not.
As the story plays out, you can see that Gregor was the only who was transformed into a “monster”. Gregor is actually the one who stays pretty constant throughout the story. Yes, he does start acting like an insect, but his thoughts were always human-like, unlike the rest of his family. They went from being compassionate and dependent to cold-hearted and independent. They saw no use in Gregor, so they potentially cut him off from the family. They went from trying to understand the transformation to wanting him dead and out of the
Outsiders are misunderstood because people don’t know what their beliefs are since they are normally so kept to themselves. For example, in “Metamorphosis”, Gregor Samsa doesn’t like his job, but his family doesn’t know that. “If I didn’t hold back for my parents’ sake, I would’ve quit ages ago”(Kafka 5). The only reason he is working is to pay off his parent’s debt. “Once
Identity is a substantial component of a person, it’s something that determines who they are and help establish themselves with people who you find enjoyable and shares similar interests. It could bring people together, and provide a sense of belonging and unity. However, there are times where these people who are within certain cliques are perceived more negatively or believe that all people within that group perpetually have a certain set of traits. In most cases, these negative perceptions lead to discrimination and conflict, and obscures the positive and more genuine traits of an individual. In S.E. Hinton’s book, The Outsiders, there is a group of poor and lower-middle class teens who are labeled as greasers. This group of wild teenagers
An interesting element in the story is the lack of panic in Gregor when he realizes what he has turned into. It...
Kafka uses impractical symbolism in order to stress that Gregor being authentic as a bug still is dissatisfying as his inauthentic state as a human. The reason his family continually is discontented with Gregor is, the reason he never meets the expectations that they he should pay off the family debt and stabilize the family with his hard work; the fact that his bug form enables him to support his family they no longer deem him a burden. No matter what Gregor does to get his family’s approval, it either leaves him depressed because he isn’t being authentic or his family is upset that he doesn’t support them. Either way Gregor sways, authentic or inauthentic, Gregor and his family are displeased.
I think that if someone doesn’t like something everyone else likes, the group should try to make it likeable. For example, if a group of people were having a drawing contest, and they have to draw a cat, if a group of people doesn’t like to draw cats, they can change it to drawing any animal. It doesn’t have to be a large change, it can be small, but it is a large impact in the long run. This relates to “The Metamorphosis” because in the book, nobody really tried to change the way they did things to make Gregor fit in or be comfortable. Very far in the book, they were trying to kill him and didn’t try to cooperate at all. It says on page 165, “...another thrown immediately after that one drove into Gregor’s back really hard.
In The Metamorphosis, Gregor lives a melancholy life with his parents and sister. One day Gregor awakes to find that he has been transformed into a bug. A jump through the story, finds Gregor isolated because his family really did not approve of what he has become. The only person that will actually talk to Gregor is his sister, Grete. Also, Gregor is now isolated from the society, his job, and the world because of his condition of being a bug. The author, Kafka utilizes a beetle image to symbolize or depict how isolated Gregor feels both with the society and his family. This plays on Gregor’s mental status and this causes him to feel like he has a loss in identity.