Outcasts, they are part of every society, yet they cause no harm.  Society
            
 outcasts don't choose their status, instead society it self chooses it for them.  An
            
 outcast is usually the type of person who is different, and because of their oddity they
            
 are rejected.  Society seems to tend and discard them on grounds that they aren't
            
 what society defines as normal.  People casted out are considered a threat to the rest
            
 of society, because they endanger the, "normalcy," that society continuously
            
 struggles to obtain.  Rejected from society, some of these outcasts will; isolate
            
 themselves, despise and torment others, or try to be accepted in to society by doing
            
 whatever necessary.  They are often taunted, compared, put up with, restricted,
            
 and/or penalized by society for being who they are.  All they need to survive is their
            
 families, shelter, friends, and sometimes the need for a feeling of acceptance.  I feel,
            
 on the other hand, while people try so hard to perfect there society, they don't realize
            
 their own problems which leads to their downfall in the end.
            
 	In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird there were several model people rejected
            
 from society in one way or another.  Atticus Finch, one of the main characters in the
            
 story, was more of an accepted outcast  because he was respected, but was still
            
 different from the rest of society.  Through out the story Atticus was fairly respected
            
 and even in some cases a vital part of society because of his knowledge, and skills. 
            
 He wasn't like the rest of society which left him out of the clique called society.  He
            
 kept his thoughts and opinions to himself, did no gossiping of others, minded his own
            
 business, and treated everyone as an equal to him if not more.  I think he was one of
            
 the wisest characters in the story as he always took everything into its proper
            
 perspective and stood up for what he believed in.  He was m
            
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