How people with different characteristics are ostracized and their strategies:
In the essay written by Mary Seymour “Call Me Crazy, But I Have to Be Myself”, is about her difficulties in dealing with the people who are not alike her. She discusses about her situations and how she faces the people by changing her behavior and changing herself into a different person. Whereas, in the essay written by Brent Staples “Night Walker”, is also about his life in which he is isolated from the people in the society where he is living. He is upset that people distinguish other person by looking at their skin color. If the person skin color is black he mentions that they decide them as a criminal who kills the people for his needs. The strategies that…
She mentions that, she is sometimes mean towards people and talk to them like she is crazy. She thought that it’s sometime bad talking to them badly. She mentions that,”I catch myself and realize that I’m not being sensitive towards people with mental illness”, by this she means that she is not being nice to the people because of her mental illness which is bad. She thinks that she has to be sensitive in dealing with the people which makes a strategy to her for being a good person in the society. Whereas, compared to the essay written by Staples, he indicate that, he stays away from the people who are scared of him by seeing his skin color. They treat him as a criminal which he is upset about, he treats him as a soft person who doesn’t do any harm to the people. But, the people consider him as a criminal judging by his skin color. So he apply himself some strategies for being safe and away from the people who are scared of him. “I move about with care, particularly late in the evening”, (P9 Brent Staples). He walks late in the evenings, if he wants to go in the same path in which there are people walking, he waits until the people clear the path and when it…
