Alienation in Works

TWAIN:

Huckleberry Finn


Through deep introspection, he comes to his own conclusions, unaffected by the accepted, and often hypocritical, precepts of Southern culture.

a novel of maturation and development. An outcast, Huck distrusts the morals and precepts of the society that labels him a pariah and fails to protect him from abuse


JEWITT:

A White Heron

Maturity from childhood, changes, growing up

The Foreigner
Just before Mrs Tolland dies, she asks Mrs Todd if she had seen something. Mrs Todd answers her: "'Yes, dear, I did; you ain't never goin' to feel strange an' lonesome no more."'

To never feel out of place, and alone, is a natural human desire. I think that the world of Dunnet Landing helped M R James to fulfil that desire.

One fault, for example, is its close mindedness and its
rejection of anything new or strange as presented in Jewett’s
short story, “The Foreigner,” which also takes place in Dunnet
Landing. In this story, the women of ...