Edward Scissorhands Conformity

“it's a good thing to be strange, normalness leads to sadness” -Phil Lester

Conformity can change people into things that they're not. People change to fit in and to be the same as every other person that surrounds them. Edward Scissorhands, and the person who wrote the poem about school were different from society. They were happy the way that they were, until the rest of society disapproved and tried to shape them into just another ordinary person. Edward Scissorhands, and about school (also known as May Your Skies Always Be Yellow) will be analyzed to find the similarities and differences between them.

About school is a poem about conformity and difference. The past and origin of this poem has changed a lot throughout the years since it

Edward was created without hands, but instead, long sharp blades that are described as ‘Scissor-hands’. His inventor one day makes Edward a pair of hands, but that happiness was short lived. The inventor had a heart attack, and died in a matter of 30 seconds and in the process the hands were ruined and so were edwards dreams of fitting in. Edward is later discovered by Peg; a middle-aged lady from Suburbia. Peg brings Edward into her house and tries to make him like everybody else (by trying to cover his facial scars with makeup, trying to dress him in her husband's clothes etc.). Society then soon turns on him and makes him seem like the villain and pushes him back to his castle. Edward was always dressed in black when he wasn't wearing clothes that Peg had provided him and his hair was always a mess. The biggest reason for Edward’s difference is his hands (obviously from the movie’s title, he has

Edward and the boy who wrote the poem have the common fact that neither of them were accepted into society as they were. Other people tried shaping them into people that they weren’t. The differences with these two texts is that the poem about school, us students and people in society can relate to. With Edward Scissorhands, we can't really get as much because most of us don't have scissors for hands. The Poem ‘About school’ shows that the writer was different and had a broader imagination and was different from the other kids in a psychological aspect. Edward was physically different, making him an easy