Edward Scissorhands

If you take a look at the two outsiders in this movie Edward and Peg, there are many similarities between the two characters but they do not get the same ending. Peg lives in the community but isn't quite accepted or considered normal because of her very religious behavior or the things she says. Edward on the other hand isn't accepted, at least not right away, because of his "hands". Unlike Peg, he is soon accepted but only because of his ability to cut bushes into fantastic objects, creatures, people, and his new found ability for cutting people and animal's hair. As the story progresses, we start to see that maybe Peg isn't so crazy in saying that Edward is (can be) dangerous and that they should "cast him out". It may not be his fault since he wasn't "raised" like we were to decipher right from wrong but having knives constantly on my person would definately raise some questions from my neighbors. Edward is finally cast out at the end of the movie after saving Kevin from Kims drunk boyfriend and his friend. He finally tackles Keving but having scissors for hands he started to cut Kevin's face trying to see if he was alright. This made the neighbors think that Kevin was being attacked. Edward was told to run back to the mansion, and as he did so he tor off all of the clothes and cutting down bushes and even torments Peg. Looking at what Peg had said earlier on in the film maybe she knew what she was talking about. Since Edward had no human contact he didn't understand how to handle anger or how to release it for that matter. After Kim met him at the mansion Edward and Jim got into a fight and he killed Jim. To get the townspeople to leave him in peace, Kim found another hand that looked like Edward's and showed them. They finally left and it seems to me that after that Peg was more accepted because they knew she was right.