“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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“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 “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’ 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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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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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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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 provided her with the encouragement and resources to get eye surgery. She describes the impact of this surgery in the essay: “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self” (emory
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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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Alice Walker’s Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self In this essay‚ “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self” by Alice Walker‚ is about the realization or fulfillment of one’s own potential or abilities‚ and a detailed and harrowing account of how the author’s life has been affected by a childhood accident that left her disfigured and blind in one eye and that the world is what we make it to be. As a child Alice Walker has great confidence in herself‚ her capabilities‚ and
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The essay‚” Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self” by Alice Walker is about self-realization‚ and that world is about the choices we make‚ as well as what we make it to be. The essay takes us from the external world where looks are everything‚ to the internal world‚ where looks are only a part of her real self. At the age of two and a half‚ Alice Walker shows that she is very confident in her beauty‚ when she wants to go to the fair with her father‚ and she says to him‚ “Take me daddy. I’m
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