God Help the Outcasts God Help the Outcasts "God Help the Outcasts" is a song written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Stephen Schwartz for Walt Disney Pictures' 34th animated feature film "The Hunchback of Notre Dame "(1996). A pop ballad, the song is performed by American singer Heidi Mollenhauer as the singing voice of Esmeralda on American actress Demi Moore's behalf, who provides the character's speaking voice. A prayer, "God Help the Outcasts" is a somber hymn in which a beset Esmeralda asks God to shield outcasts and Roma like herself against racism and discrimination at the hands of Paris and Judge Claude
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame The Hunchback of Notre-Dame The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (, "Our Lady of Paris") is a French Romantic/Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. The novel's original French title, "Notre-Dame de Paris", is a metaphor: it refers to Notre Dame Cathedral, on which the story is centered, and Esmeralda, the novel's main character who is "our lady of Paris" and the center of the human drama within the story. Frederic Shoberl's 1833 English translation was published as "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (which became the generally used title in English), which refers to Quasimodo, Notre Dame's bellringer. Victor Hugo began