Beauty By Alice Walker

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I strongly agree with Gina in her points that beauty is not just a physical appearance. On the other hand, she did not support the idea of Walker’s worry when her daughter will ask her about why she looks different from other people and why her eye is blind. Furthermore, Walker cares about what other people say about her beauty when they always keep saying “You did not change”; Walker was sensitive toward people who said that. Gina did not support the adage with her answer, and she needs to clarify and link the adage to her answer. Readers can understand that beauty has different meaning depends on different persons. The adage, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” is basically means that every person has different preferences and different

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