The outsider
Also known as: the stranger, the alien among us
A stranger to the community whose foreign perspective exposes its assumptions and whose presence disrupts it.
The outsider in fiction: 8 works
Odysseus spends years as a stranger in foreign lands and returns to Ithaca disguised and unrecognized, observing his own home from an external perspective.
The Square's glimpse of higher dimensions makes him a heretical outsider to his flat world.
As an 'ordinary man' suddenly 'embroiled in a conspiracy,' Hannay is a stranger to the secret world of spies and organizations.
John the Savage's outsider perspective exposes the emptiness beneath the World State's comfort.
Valentine Michael Smith, human raised by Martians, sees Earth society as a total stranger.
The envoy Genly Ai's outsider view of Gethen exposes the assumptions of gendered society.
Jake enters the Na'vi as a stranger who comes to see his own people's world anew.
The ambassador Mahit is a provincial outsider navigating the empire that fascinates and threatens her home.
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