Beauty When The Other Dancer Is The Self Analysis

In “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self” by Alice Walker and “The Library Card” by Richard Wright, have many similarities as well as differences. In their stories they both focus on adversities and discrimination that they both had to face. Throughout their life experience they both struggled to find themselves, when reality really affects their eyes. However, Wright and Walker had major similarities such as their lost of their confidence at one point in time, but later on Walker eventually gained confidence and Wright continued to lose his. In Alice’s narrative “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self”’, Alice was so obsessed with the way she looked to the point,” It was great fun being cute. But then, one day, it ended” (Page 442). One day while hanging with her brothers, he accidently shot her in the eye with the BB gun, leaving her to become blind in her eye and losing confidence, not only did she lose sight in her eye but also lost respect for her brothers .Alice then moved with her grandparents in hope for a new start
Richard worked for a white man that always sent him to the library to pick up books for him. One day Richard said to his boss, “I want to read. I can’t get books from the library. I wonder if you’d let me use your card?”(Page 534) Richard boss then send Richard to the library but the librarian is confused because of the books he want to rent out. Richard finally get the books he wants to read and start reading them every day. “In buoying me up, reading also cast me down, made me see what was possible, what I had missed. My tension returned, new terrible, bitter, surging, almost too great to be continued. I no longer felt that the world about me was hostile, killing; I knew it. A million times I asked myself what I could do to save myself, and there were no answers. I seemed forever condemned, ringed by walls.” (Page