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This 8 page paper discusses "My Contraband" (under its original title, "The Brothers") by Louisa May Alcott, and "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis. It explores the concept of the Other with regard to the characters of Robert in the first story and Wolfe in the second. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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we can make sense of them. Its usually done in a way that is detrimental to the person so defined. African-Americans, for instance, were defined by whites as inferior, unintelligent
and natural slaves; this entirely self-serving fiction allowed the slave owners to convince themselves that they were actually doing blacks a favor by enslaving them. Today, we might do the
same thing with people from the Middle East, calling them jihadists, barbarians, using slurs such as "turban heads" and so on. This transforms them from real people with homes, families,
jobs and lives much like ours to dangerous enemies whose behavior threatens us. We are then justified in killing them. A great many works of literature and art deal with
the concept of the Other; its a major motivation in the classic 1972 film Sleuth, in which the late Lord Laurence Olivier plays a mystery writers who sets out to
get even with his wifes lover, Milo Tindle (Michael Caine), in large part because Tindle is lower-class, and, as his character Andrew Wyke says, "Not one of me" (Scherick &
Mankiewicz, 1972). Tindle was born in England but his father was an Italian immigrant, and that makes Tindle the Other, someone who does not fit in with the upper class,
and never will-even though hes making a lot of money. The Other, then, is someone who is not one of us. And having defined them on our terms, not theirs,
we then treat them as we feel someone in that position deserves. The Brothers by Louisa May Alcott The brothers is the title under which My contraband was first published;
its available on-line in the full-text version so thats what were using. (Its the same story). The tale unfolds slowly: a Civil War nurse, Miss Dane, takes care of two
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