“Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self’ focuses around Alice Walker who did not feel beautiful most of her life because of a flaw she had. When she was complimented or told she was beautiful‚ she refused to believe it. But was the reason why Alice did not feel beautiful was because of her flaw‚ or because females are expected to look perfect? Would she have felt better about herself if she would have been a male? Alice Walker judged herself so harshly because she was a female‚ not a male‚ and
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Beauty “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self” by Alice Walker is an essay describing her personal experience with what beauty truly is. Alice Walker is an African American writer who has won many awards for her writing. A few of these awards include a Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award. In her autobiographical story “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self‚” she tells us the story of how she tragically lost and then finally regained her self-esteem after much agony. She tells a personal
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“Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self” essay In the story “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self”‚ the author‚ Alice Walker demonstrate to readers that Self-acceptance is greater than social conformity. To me‚ the meaning of beauty is the beauty inside of you. No matter how bad looking you are‚ as long as you accept yourself‚ you will be most appealing person. To Alice‚ beauty must be achieved by ignoring others and accepting yourself unconditionally. When I was young‚ just like Alice‚
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“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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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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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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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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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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