“Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self” written by Alice Walker‚ is a gentle and easy to understand story. It is not that the story is a boring and no highlight. When reading the book‚ it’s like I am hearing my friend’s story. Alice’s emotion changed totally different before and after the “accident”. Before the accident‚ she described herself as if she was the most beautiful and intelligent girl in the world. When Alice was only two and a half years old‚ when her father was chosen which kids
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Alice walker was born February 9‚ 1944 in Eatonton‚ Georgia the youngest of the eight children of sharecroppers Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker (poetry.org). In 1952 when she was only eight years old‚ she lost her right eye site in a game of cowboys and Indians when she was shot in the eye with a BB gun by her older brother‚ Curtis. To avoid getting in trouble her brothers came up with a story and made Alice follow along. Several years later‚ when she was fourteen years old‚ her brothers
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and from the beautiful cute little child she turns to a quiet self-conscious girl who’s ashamed of her scar and doesn’t want to raise her head up. Most likely in those years she never thought that her brothers could be jealous‚ and disinterestedly wanted to be like them‚ and that’s why she is upset that her parents didn’t buy her BB gun. She thinks that she gets everything because of her beauty‚ not because she was a little girl‚ when mention that it was not important whether the eye could see again
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Opinions on the Essay “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self” “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self” is an interesting portrayal of one woman’s personal journey of discovery but also purposefully offers lessons for our own personal struggles. Engaging in a forceful manner with a clear intention in the structure of the time progression‚ she navigates the reader from her experiences as a youth to‚ in some ways‚ the successful conclusion of her path to true self-realization and awareness
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Writer‚ Alice Walker‚ in her narrative essay‚ “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self” recounts a tragic event that occurred at the age of 8 years old. Walker’s objective is to tell her readers about an event that changed not only her physical appearance‚ but how she considers herself‚ forever. While speaking about her life after the accident‚ she uses many rhetorical devices to speak to her readers. Plot development‚ metaphors‚ repetition‚ flashback‚ and Aristotelian appeals are only some of
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the biography of Alice Walker called “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self”. In this story‚ she is expected to be a pretty little girl who’s life depends on her beauty‚ so much so that when she is shot in the eye‚ her school work is heavily affected. She is treated differently than her brothers‚ who are given more freedom and bully her. I know that in my personal life I have been shunned for not being masculine enough. Societies today see femininity as a female trait. When she was two and a
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W/F-71470 Professor Mackenzie In Alice Walker’s “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self‚” we are introduced to a self-confident‚ charismatic child. Through‚ “Im the prettiest!” and “It was great fun being cute” we sense a wave of pride as Walker describes herself as a child. (Walker‚ 47‚48) However‚ this joy soon comes to an end as Walker is faced with an “accident.” Unfortunately‚ she is shot with a BB gun and is scarred and blinded in her right eye. Walker suffers throughout the story‚ struggling
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of Low Self-Esteem In her essay “Beauty: When the Other Dance Is the Self”‚ Alice Walker examines the lasting and dangerous effects low self-esteem launched onto her life after a terrible accident. This accident caused her physical deformity and thus affected her ability to trust the intentions of others or her own beauty. With the increase of mainstream media and news‚ the pressures to maintain conceptualized “beauty” in today’s society have led to an increase in low self-esteem
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Beauty When the Dancer Is the Self “Beauty when the dancer is the self” written by Alice Walker is a well written and thought provoking essay that makes the reader reflect the meaning behind beauty. As a young child Walker lost vision in one of her eyes and in doing so lost her confidence and self-esteem. The essay is made up of different memories that come together to tell her personal story of how she learned to accept herself and her abnormality. As a little girl Walker thought beauty was in
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ALICE WALKER Alice Walker was an activist and feminist because she protested for the right of blacks to vote in Georgia and Mississippi. She was against racism and also sexism. On March 8th 2003‚ 5‚000 protestors and Alice Walker marched from Malcolm X Park to the White House for women to have the same human rights as men. She also made an activist group with 60 other female activists in order to persuade Israel and Egypt to open their borders in Gaza. She wrote and supported various civil rights
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