“Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self” Topic #2 I believe that Alice Walker chose those specific incidents from her childhood to show how she thought of herself and her beauty before the incident with the BB gun. It gives the reader a better understanding of how the incident would negatively affect Walker because of how much she valued being pretty. It also helps to show how much her personality dramatically changed after she had her beauty stripped away by the BB gun. When Walker was Two-and-a-half
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people have seen loads of advertisement of beauty and ways young girls can attract men. The closer someone looks it is ironic how most people say everyone is beautiful in their own way. Meanwhile‚ the people in articles are influencing young teens and adults to look a certain way. The audience needs to acknowledge the problem with not only with race but also gender influenced in beauty standards. The Author Alice Walker passage‚ Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self‚ expresses her feelings of growing
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“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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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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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
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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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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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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 but praying for to remain her beautiful look. She mentioned that she always wanted to be with father‚ for that she would even put up with pain from grooming her
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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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