Steven Hubbard Mrs. Lapp English 12 DE 1 April 2014 Reflection Paper The author of the book Autobiography of a Face was written by Lucy Grealy which also was the main character in the story. Lucy Grealy is a girl who was diagnosed with cancer at age nine. She had Ewing’s Sarcoma which is cancer in the jaw. Her jaw was deformed from all the surgeries. She always distanced herself from people because she thought she was ugly and ashamed of her face. She had to go through school with people
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while others hold a dissimilar idea and think that identity is part of our nature. Lucy Grealy‚ a person who has facial defects wrote an essay about her distinctive experience that she was teased by others since young‚ and became dissocial and self-abased. I believe that the people around us have the strongest influences on our identities‚ which can also be shown from Lucy Grealy’s essay. Due to her cancer‚ Lucy Grealy has lost almost half of her jaw which leads her to an unusual life‚ and this incident
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Lucy Grealy tells a story about not fitting in‚ unbearable pain that takes up residence in one’s head as loneliness and confusion‚ questioning what things mean‚ being scared and lost in your family‚ enduring intense physical pain‚ and most importantly‚ figuring out who you are. Lucy had no idea she might die‚ even though the survival rate for Ewing’s sarcoma was only five percent. She does not present her parents as overly afraid for her life‚ either. Her autobiography is not a story about the fear
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paragraphs will explain how each essay supports or refute one of the assumptions about identity. In the first essay‚ ‘Masks’‚ written by Lucy Grealy‚ it supports the assumption that identity is shaped by culture. Lucy talks about the struggle through school as a child. At age six‚ Lucy was diagnosed with a lethal form of jaw cancer and nearly lost half her jaw to the disease. The frequent surgeries had to reconstruct her face left her with some very noticeable scars. In her essay‚ she talks about the way
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Autobiography of a Face: Lucy Grealy The psychology of beauty is complex not just because the concept of beauty is as yet undefined‚ but also because it is largely true that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder or how individuals perceive other people or things. The importance of beauty has been taught since the first civilizations. It is known that the cave people of the Mesolithic period (around 10‚000 B.C.) softened their skin with castor oil and grease‚ and also used plant dyes
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What is beauty? Beauty‚ by definition‚ is‚ “the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit” (Merriam-Webster). Throughout her life‚ Lucy Grealy struggles with her own definition of beauty. To her‚ beauty equals happiness. As a cancer patient‚ she underwent many surgeries which left her with a disfigured face. Since she did not think she was beautiful‚ she was not happy‚ or rather‚ she would not allow herself to
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Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy As everyday people‚ one is used to seeing faces that are “regularly proportioned.” But what happens when one stumble upon one that’s different from the status quo? They stop and stare or may talk about the person. Lucy Grealy experienced both of these and even more after her surgery that removed one-third of her jaw. The encounters and troubles that she faced are recorded in her autobiography‚ Autobiography of a Face (1994). Lucy Grealy was born in Dublin
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Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy Before I start‚ I just want to know who believe in the existence of fate. Personally I did not believe that fate exist in this world but after reading this depressing and inspiring story by Lucy Grealy‚ I saw how the crippled side of fate destroyed ones’ life. This author here‚ Grealy who wrote the book called Autobiography of a Face had a jaw removal because she had discovered cancer developing in her jaw. Fate is often twisted. It had turned a once sweet
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Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds Essay [pic] By Kelly Hastie M/W 11:00 Anthropology 101 Professor Kamaila We all realize that us humans have some sort of relation to apes and chimpanzees‚ but what evolved us from them to becoming bipedal hominids? In this essay I will be inculcating you about the evolution of humans‚ the captivating discovery of Lucy‚ an Australopithecus afarensis‚ and how her uncovering of a new species is so important to our advancement. Lucy is our oldest‚ most complete
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their right to do so simply because I was so ugly‚ so I’d just better get used to it. But I couldn’t.” (Grealy‚ Page 145) Man would constantly approach her because of her figure. Her face will make them openly make jokes and laugh at her. “I though I could use my body to distract people from my face.” (Grealy‚ Page 208) During her early years in school her peers did not seem to understand what Lucy was going through. They did not take the opportunity to know her for who she was. They just saw a girl
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