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How Are Outsiders Central to ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ and ‘Silas Marner’?

This essay is a comparison of two novels written in different eras, which have similar themes. In my essay I will compare the outsiders in each novel, as they are central figures. An outsider is people that differ from the normal. To Kill A Mockingbird has three outsiders, but only two of them are real outsiders, them being Tom Robinson and Boo Radley. Atticus Finch is the other outsider. However in Silas Marner there is only one main outsider and that being Silas Marner himself. The other outsider in Silas Marner is Eppie, the adopted daughter of Silas Marner. The author of To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee presents many ideas about why the three characters are outsiders. His main ideas are racism and prejudice as a whole. In the novel Silas Marner George Elliot represents ideas of different classes, for example rich versus poor. Both novels also represent the idea of people prejudging the outsiders w...