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Always an Outcast. When Mahlke is 14 and dozing beside an athletic field, a classmate thrusts a playful kitten on his "mouse"-the word he uses throughout the book to describe his swollen Adam's apple. Mahlke becomes savagely self-conscious about the mouse. In winter, he fixes his scarf high over it with a safety pin and constantly reaches up with his hand to be sure the scarf is in place. In summer, he spends as much time as possible in swimming so the mouse will be invisible under water. Struggling in other ways against the teasing derision...
...convinced that he must go home to Maine if he is ever to write again. Only then is the racial issue, up to then irrelevant, discreetly introduces. Barbara realizes that she cannot renounce her "safe, beautiful world" in Paris and go to Maine, where she would be a social outcast. The couple part, telling themselves "it never happened...
...sort of super-minority-the classic fall guy, mocked and persecuted even by his fellow Negroes. Taub East takes up the theme of alienation and minorities in terms of an amateur rabbi-an enlisted man in occupied Japan-brooding about his kinship with the eta, the "unmentionable outcast class, persecuted in accord with antique, hallowed laws...
...Lion in Love, by Shelagh Delaney. When a dispossessed class finds its voice, its proudest possession is its tongue. Everyone must be told-and told off-about how it feels to be an economic, or a racial, or a social, outcast. In A Taste of Honey, Britain's Shelagh Delaney, then a semiliterate 18-year-old, gave tongue richly and scathingly to her bitterly impoverished girlhood in industrial Lancashire. Out of her background, she dramatically distilled a kind of urban folk poetry, humor and wisdom, and in a candidly observed relationship between a shiftless mother and a rebel daughter...
...warmly welcomed. In point of fact, Garrison was only the best publicized of the abolitionists, as this biography-the most objective yet written-makes clear. John L. Thomas, assistant history professor at Harvard, shows that the vituperative Garrison was less a leader of the abolitionists than an eccentric outcast who gave the whole movement a taint of fanaticism it did not deserve. Despite his dedication, in the end Garrison was more hindrance than help in ultimately freeing the Negro slaves...