The Boy Next Door and the Psycho Killer: Producing Society’s Extremes E

The Boy Next Door and the Psycho Killer Producing Societys Extremes deuce boys walk down the corridor of a friendly, residential, public high school. As they approach, the crowd slowly parts as its bystanders just stare at the boys. The boys walk with a certain aire about them, as their trench coats swing from side to side and their gloomy faces meet the eyes of the rest of the students. They are pointed at and called names such(prenominal) as fag or freak-- for they are members of the infamous trench coat mafia. These two boys can also be described as the murderers in the columbine High School shootings. Somewhere across the country in another friendly, residential, public high school, a good looking boy of the same progress walks down a similar hallway, and has a similar effect on the crowd. Instead of cosmos laughed at or called a fag, this captain of the football team, Corey Johnson, gets a few good job at the game yesterday or hellos from people that have only heard of him an d wished to actually know him personally, for he is infamous for being cool. Rather than being called a fag as walks down the hallway no one even suspects or even contemplates the point that he is a homosexual. These individuals are alike in various aspects age, sex, surroundings, and others, but yet have managed to be labeled and categorized so differently and so harshly. So what are the social conditions that have allowed such opposing figures to take shape in our culture? What is it that forces youth to be successful at being normal or unsuccessful and weird? The answer is the confining and forceful methods that our society has used to produce its norms. These two particular cases are just representations of umteen types of kids who are forced into two very dist... ...nes, ads, schoolsthe devastating effect is one that is constantly making deviants the outcast. These outcasts take on labels that usually have a proscribe connotation of a freak. Should these deviant groups stri de to fit this normal expectation and assimilate into a culture that has rejected them or rather try to have strength to add to their uniqueness? Each individual has a role on how he is perceived.This role is not control but rather a path that can be taken to control their position according to the norm. It is debatable if Corey Johnsons face to the nation as an icon was an action to extend to the gay race seem more normal, or to show that there are exceptions to the rule within the gay name. No matter the standpoint or path a group in society chooses take, there will always be one outstanding central ground With your norm, youve always got your deviant.