Strangers: significance: in the presentation yesterday, the presence of strangers are especially evident in Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Narrative of Frederick Douglas. With the word strangers, it reminded me of a individual that does not belong with a collective identity. Therefore, they are in a sense more vulnerable to fusion of their identity because they are entirely alone. Douglas and Wilson are examples of strangers in an extremely imposing community. However, both Twain and Douglas seems to demonstrate that as more and more "strangers" that do not fit inside a community unite with each other, they are able to derive strength from each other and reinforce their gaps in their own identity, thereby resisting the takeover of the larger group.
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