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By definition, an outcast is "one who is cast out or expelled; rejected as useless"(Webster's Dictionary).The term "outcast" can be used to describe many of the characters in the novels Black L:ike Me, My Left Foot, and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. These characters were expelled by society because of their physical and mental disabilities. The reader is presented the stories from the outcasts' point of view. It is this outlook that creates a sense of compassion for the characters as it is made clear that every person is useful. My Left Foot tells the life story of a man named Christy Brown who is suffering with Cerebral Palsy. Christy struggles to lead a normal life. He is able to go out and play like the other kids when he had his "chariot", but after it breaks Christy realizes the severity of his handicap. He is forced to stay home. Although Christy is aware of his disability and the restrictions it places on him he still makes an effort to perform tasks which most would think impossible. This is clearly shown when Christy wants to try and swim.
In the novel, Black Like Me John Howard Griffin speaks of what it is like for a white man to live as a black man in the 1950's. He becomes an outcast for physical reasons as well. He is an outcast because he is black. There is no disability that prevents him from living a life that is similar to the "white man" (36), it is only the color of his skin. When Griffin first becomes a black man he too cna only see the color of the skin he states" I looked into the mirror and saw reflected nothing for the white John Griffin's past. No, the reflection led back to Africa, back to the shanty and the ghetto, back to the fruitless struggles against the mark of blackness" (16). In this novel "blackness"(16) is portrayed as disease which makes the black man not even good enough to look at, share a seat with or even use the same bathroom as a white man. It is this physical attribute of being black which made John Howard Griffin and all of the other black Americans outcasts in the 1950! nly proven again when Chief Broom (a Chronic) signs up to join the fishing trip in order
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Approximate Word count = 722
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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