THE STORY OF JOE odd. (Simon, M) This is the story of Joe Odd, written by a ‘mentally ill’ patient in a secure mental asylum. It is possible to pick out several psychological ‘themes’, these of which I intend to assess. The story of Joe Odd is clearly a case of social ‘In and Out’ groups, where in society groups emerge where people have more influence than others. Clear evidence from the text proves my …showed first 75 words of 1036 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1036 total…power. As stated above, people must be educated and shown new doors to understand the ‘odd’ person. An ignorant person would only know what was good for themselves, therefore have several labels to stick on people who might be different to them, the more understanding and education that society (and person) gets, the less labels they will use to attach onto ‘different’ people, because they can understand why the ‘odd’ person might be like that.