Summary
Sadie Jones: Apostate
When someone is an apostate from society, from the family, from any socially dominant group, we can always ask ourselves from which side we actually look at the position of the one who has fallen away, who is a family shame, a black sheep, a social malcontent, a marginal, whatever we call him. Do we look at the apostate from the perspective of those who are powerful and determine the system, or do we look from the edge, exactly from the margin, from where the one who is rejected stands (or, spatially speaking, lies)?
In the novel The Outcast, however, it is difficult to identify the point of observation. But it is not difficult to recognize the loser. The loser's name is Lewis, he is seven years old at the beginning of the novel, barely twenty at the end. He was seven years old when he was kicked out of the room. He was ten years old when he was sent up there as a punishment. He was twelve years old when he tried to be quiet sitting on the stairs, not knowing where to go because everything seemed wrong to him. He was fifteen when he started going upstairs to get away from them, so he could drink and try not to get hurt.
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