Intro: Everyone at some point in their life has experienced what it’s like to be outcasted or victimized, whether that be from experiences in school or your regular day home life. Experiences like these can be challenging to deal with and even traumatic in most cases. However, what is remarkable are victims or outcasts that are able to look past their troubling experiences no matter what that may be, and challenge themselves to rise above and succeed. In literacy narratives, there are eight common themes presented to us by author Kara Por Alexander; Success, Victim, Hero, Child Prodigy, Literacy Winner, Rebel, Outsider and Other. An important takeaway, to keep in mind, is that these eight themes can often coincide with one another. For instance, an outcast that develops into a hero narrative or more specifically (and more important to this topic of discussion) a victim or outcast narrative that develops into a success story.

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