Personal Narrative-Pearl Isn T Beautiful?

Pearl isn’t beautiful.

This didn’t dawn upon her suddenly, didn’t invade the deepest corners of brain all at once like a wave at high tide. This didn’t come as an epiphany. Instead, it was proven through small moments that Pearl didn’t realize are affecting her.

First it was a comment about her abnormally large nose by a snot-nosed classmate in her daycare. Then it was one from a different boy about how her hair was noticeably shorter than the rest of the girls in her kindergarten class. Then came an influx of spoken observations from various classmates about her small “squinty” eyes, or the pink-framed glasses Pearl wore that she thought were cool at the time, or how she wore the same outfit everyday.

Initially, Pearl didn’t allow herself to be bothered by their slander, because by the time she got to the age where her brain was able to fully register and recognize their words as insults, Pearl had already been told by her first grade teacher a saying about sticks & stones, one that convinced her that she should be more concerned about a broken bone than words that were meant to hurt her inwards rather than outwards. When she told her mother about the teasing she was experiencing, her mother brushed it off as well as Pearl did, explaining that “kids would be kids”, and that they would learn to be good another time. …show more content…
It was when the girl in front of her suddenly turned around to face Pearl and stuck out a single bony finger. She placed it on the tip of Pearl’s nose and