Monday, May 23, 2011

Magical Stranger in Literature: "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World", "The Temp" and Edward Scissorhands

This week we will look at "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World", "The Temp" and Edward Scissorhands in class. All three of these stories contain individuals that become part of a community in some way and have profound effects of the people.

In "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" it is a corpse that washes ashore that gives the townspeople a new way of looking at their lives, in "The Temp" it is a temp hired in an office that changes the atmosphere of the wor enviroment and in Edward Scissorhands it is a unique young man that forces a rather boring town to see how boring and judgmental they really are.

This week pay attention to what these "magical strangers" force the people in the stories to look at it in their lives.

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