Going off of number one, I think that being an outcast does give you a sense of freedom that noone else feels. It gives you that "high" to go an explore and try to fit in, and yet make you comfortable in your own skin that you feen off it. With that thinking, I would compare the poem to the "Fluer" story. I think that with Fleur she realised the outcast that she was, and she understood that nothing would change the way it made her seem. So while she was being being treated the way she was, she was also gaining her control of herslef. She was freeing herself by making others loose there hold.
In a sense, to become free of the water demons hold (although it seems as if she was in love with it, or given some kind of magicalness from it) she was free by passing her deaths onto other men. It is sometimes crazy to think that being an outcast actually makes you freer, but being on the outside, your not like anyone else, nor do you try to be like anyone else. So you are saving yourself but excluding yourself. (if that makes sense at all!)
Nadia Abdallah, Post 1
Good initial connections between Walker's idea of outcasts and the character Fleur. I would like to see you push your ideas a bit further, though, and discuss some specific examples from Erdrich's story that illustrate, in your opinion, Fleur embracing her outcast identity. Good start.
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