Injuries affect everybody in a different way. Many people let their injuries bring them down. Others rise up and face them. In these two stories two girls face this exact problem and rise up against it rather than falling to it. Although they have some minor differences, there are a few major similarities between “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self”, by Alice Walker, and “The Clan of One-Breasted Women”, by Terry Tempest Williams, such as, physical injuries, dreams, and deserts. One major similarity is that both of the authors have experienced a physical injury that has impacted the rest of their life. In the first essay, by Walker, she had gotten shot in the eye with a BB gun and that left her eye permanently blind with the possibility
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Walker starts thinking about how there is a possibility of her not ever being able to see again and becomes thankful for noticing the desert. She is so thankful for seeing the desert because it is so beautiful and she just could not fathom what it would be like not seeing it. On the other hand, Williams thought what she saw of the miraculous desert was a dream. However, it was just a big white cloud of smoke from the nuclear bomb testing. It would soon be the one thing that causes her family to have breast cancer for generations. At the end she says, “…women who recognized the sweet smell of sage as fuel for our spirits” (Williams, 323). They recognized the smell of the desert and had the anger of the bombs affecting their family on their mind. Even though they both brought up the desert, it meant something different to the two of them. In short, the two essays, “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self” and “The Clan of One-Breasted Women”, describe two women overcoming their injuries. They both take different routes in doing so. Walker finds herself beautiful again after her eye injury and gains a family from it. Williams helps bring peace to other women that have been affected by breast cancer just like her family has. They do this in similar yet different ways, providing us with personal experiences, such as injuries, dreams, and thoughts. They teach us that rising
Walker starts thinking about how there is a possibility of her not ever being able to see again and becomes thankful for noticing the desert. She is so thankful for seeing the desert because it is so beautiful and she just could not fathom what it would be like not seeing it. On the other hand, Williams thought what she saw of the miraculous desert was a dream. However, it was just a big white cloud of smoke from the nuclear bomb testing. It would soon be the one thing that causes her family to have breast cancer for generations. At the end she says, “…women who recognized the sweet smell of sage as fuel for our spirits” (Williams, 323). They recognized the smell of the desert and had the anger of the bombs affecting their family on their mind. Even though they both brought up the desert, it meant something different to the two of them. In short, the two essays, “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self” and “The Clan of One-Breasted Women”, describe two women overcoming their injuries. They both take different routes in doing so. Walker finds herself beautiful again after her eye injury and gains a family from it. Williams helps bring peace to other women that have been affected by breast cancer just like her family has. They do this in similar yet different ways, providing us with personal experiences, such as injuries, dreams, and thoughts. They teach us that rising