The Day Identity

In the argumentative essay, Revenge of the Geeks by Alexandra Robbins, the author makes claims about teenagers, adults, and the traits that make them unique. The author claims that in high school, the qualities that make people different outcast them but will lead them toward the path of success. The author claims that this "outcast culture" has become popular today. In the essay, the author claims that the features that make people unique also marginalize them among their peers.

Although her shared race inherently secures her place in the group, she actively seeks further acceptance and affirmation from the other girls. Her longing for community results in her continued involvement with the group, as being outside the group implies an undesired sense of isolation. Laurel continuously strives to be a part of the community, even though she does not like its members and compares their caliber of friendship to being “bunched-up wads of tinfoil…or rusty iron nails you had to get tetanus for” instead of precious metals (190). The need to identify as part of the group causes her to passively dismiss not only the blatant rudeness towards her and other members but also their obvious character flaws. Yet it is in this respect that her less aggressive and kind temperament distinguishes her from the rest of the group, indirectly disrupting its cohesion. Although she realizes that “quiet people like [herself] were better off quiet alone,” the fear of being excluded will lead her to comply with group actions and thoughts that would likely not occur if she were acting as an individual (187).

Bradbury writes, “But Margot remembered. ‘It’s like a penny,’ she said once, eyes closed. ‘No it’s not!’ the children cried. ‘It’s like a fire,’ she said, ‘in the stove.’ ‘You’re lying, you don’t remember !’ cried the children. But she remembered and stood quietly apart from all of them and watched the patterning windows.” This illustrates they are obviously too blind by jealousy that they become hostile and ignorant. As well, they’re also spitefully jealous of the opportunity Margot has of going back to Earth, and being able to witness the sun every second of the waking day.

Misery struck Margot as soon as she stepped one foot out of the closet. The door opened and the group of girls started to tear up after what they participated in doing to Margot. All the classmates that saw the sun felt so awful for Margot because she didn’t get to see the sun. Nobody could say anything, all you could hear in the cold and silent room was crying. They watched Margot run home in the rain and suffer through the crazy thunder. Quickly, she ran home crying so hard that she felt drowsy. She wished she had one friend that could make her feel a lot more better, but all of her friends shut the closet on her.

The author makes the reader understand this theme through some text evidence in the end of the short story. For example its says “ Then one of them gave a little cry. ‘Margot !’ ‘What ?’ ‘She’s still in the closet where we left her’ ‘Margot.’” These piece of evidence shows that after all of Margot’s classmates bullied her and violently pushed her in a closet, are feeling regret. They have a feeling of sorrow because they know they have done something that should not have happened. Ray Bradbury provides multiple text evidence, such as “Behind the closet door was only silence. They unlocked the door, even more slowly and let Margot out.” This scene also shows a sense of deep regret from the kids who did the horrible act to Margot. They know that the consequences that they will face, such as Margot doing bad stuff to them or the teacher punishing the kids, will be

In my opinion, the kids in Margot’s class didn’t believe her about the sun because they were jealous of her that she got to see colours and something bright, warm and beautiful. I think that the kids were jealous of Margot that she got to see colours, something bright, warm and beautiful because they wanted to see what she got to see other than rain and darkness, they want to see brightness, colours, warmness and something beautiful. The kids in her class want to have the same experience as she did. Also they were jealous of Margot because Margot is going back to earth to see the sun again because she hasn't seen the sun in 5 years and she really wants to see the

Nobody in this world is perfect. We all have our flaws and also our talents, but because of the world we live in, our society has created the idea that everyone should stick to the “status quo.” To most teenagers, you must act, dress, and look a certain way to meet society’s criteria. The expectations to fit in can be extremely hard, and sometimes impossible for some people to meet. As we leap into the world of literature, we come across stories such as “Metamorphosis,” by Franz Kafka, or “Revenge of the Geeks,” by Alexandra Robbins

Moreover, the author says, “Now stood, separate, staring at the rain and the loud water world beyond the huge glass.” This instructs the readers that Margot was separate from the other kids in her class and she didn’t want to do anything with the kids in her class which made them feel different from

“We’re sorry Margot, we didn’t mean to leave you in the closet,” said a majority of the class in unison. Margot instantly knew she had missed what she had wanted to see for a long time, the Sun. Margot began to cry. In her head, she was wondering why her class had done this to her. All she wanted to do since she came to Venus was see the Sun.

Differences is what makes people unique. But what if being different is the reason for someone’s unhappiness, what if being different causes someone to want to be the same? In the short story Hands, written by Xiao Hong, a girl who is different from the rest of her peers at school is mocked and dehumanized. The story takes place in the early 20th century in northern China. The girls name is Wang Yaming and her hands are much darker than the rest of the girls because she is a dyer, someone who dyes cloths. Everyone else at school comes from cities and homes with financial stability while Wang Yaming comes from an impoverished area in the rural side. People such as the principal, the girls at the school, and even Wang Yaming’s father all either pitied her, believed she wouldn’t outcome to much, or relentlessly criticized her. The majority of people judged her before getting to know her and her life because of the time and setting of the story was set during a time where people were more close minded because they were not used to being with different people and different ideas, which caused the characters of the story to see the world one sided.

And face it. No kid in high school feels as if they fit in. In correspondence to the questioning of belonging to a stereotypical teenage society, in the story, “The Metamorphosis,” by Franz Kafka, is a showing of how in a day-to-day “regular” lifestyle can result in the alienating of the metamorphosing of something not as typical in your self-styled day-to-day “regular” lifestyle. This also can be known as outsiders, people who do not belong to a particular group, signifying the argument that newcomers are simply those who are misjudged or misunderstood for the two reasons of. Since, the men and women that are seen as “normal” or “popular” look down upon these outcasts, and others follow that philosophy with them. It has been said before

To begin, jealousy can cause people do horrible things, which is the theme of the story.This is shown when her classmates are being mean to her. . Since Margot has experience with the sun, and her classmates don't. Her classmates treat her horribly because they are jealous of her. To show Margot’s classmates jealousy, Bradbury writes” Hey everyone, let's put Margot in the closet” (Bradbury,1954). This quote shows that they were very jealous of her. they were of her,

Furthermore, as the story is shown to have a low level of science fiction, it does not affect the message. The science fiction elements to portray an unexperienced world, lack in altering the society of Venus and instead contain features of our society today. This implies that if the societies are the same, then what happens on Venus is possible of happening on Earth but with different circumstances of the surrounding area. In accordance with this, due to the low level of science fiction included in the story, the characters hold human qualities and characteristics. An example of how this is shown in the text is through portraying the emotion of remorse, guilt and sadness, felt by the children after experiencing the sun themselves and realizing that Margot was locked in the closet, from the quote: “They could not meet each other’s glances. Their faces were solemn and pale. They looked at their hand and feet, their faces down.” Moreover, from this quote, they can also be compared to when the author describes the effect of loneliness and nostalgia had, her pale face.

At least, that’s how they think. If one does not conform, they get teased for being “Weird,” The girl, however, was subject to more extreme forms, social deprivation, hitting, shoving, tripping. Every day she was victimized, to the point where her confidence was in tatters. Every day she hid in her room, she cried for hours. Weekends were her Savior, Summers were her heaven.

In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a young girl named Colleen sat in a small square room with lavender walls. This night was spent in her own company like all others were. Children’s laughter from outside her window masked the girl’s sporadic sighs. Colleen wasn’t sure what made her so different from the other kids in her neighborhood or at school or why being different was considered a bad thing. All Colleen knew was she didn’t have a friend in the whole wide world, and it was lonely. Although her parents loved her as a baby, as time went on they began to lose interest as if she was a hobby and not their child.