In her essay “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self,” Alice Walker wrote a narrative essay about her internal struggles of beauty and self-worth. She went into great details about childhood events, particularly a disfiguring accident, and how it forever changed her. Alice describes her emotional history in minute detail, allowing the reader to feel all the emotions that she had felt. Truly, we have all felt that if we could just make perfect all our imperfections, that we would be happier and our lives would be better. She explains how a single traumatic event changed her life forever and her perception of true beauty.
Alice wrote about her journey of self-hatred and her eventual self-love. She wrote in chronicle order of her life beginning at the age of two. She recalled, “Whirling happily in my starchy frock, showing off my biscuit-polished …show more content…
However, with a discolored scar tissue blemish on her eye, she no longer felt pretty. The world became much darker for Alice.
Alice tone took a change. She explained how she struggled in school and simple tasks became difficult for her. Alice’s peers called her mean names and she was constantly bullied. Her reaction was to withdraw from the outside world.
At the age of twelve, she would stand in front of the mirror, ranting and raving. She would beg for the scar tissue to disappear, she told the “glob” that she hated it. She never prayed for her sight to return, but she prayed for beauty.
Two years later, Alice had a surgical procedure to remove most of the scar tissue from her eye. Alice wrote, “Almost immediately I become a different person” (26). She explained that her world changes for the better. She won the boyfriend of her dreams and made many friends. She became very popular. Her grades improved, and she even graduated class
Alice wrote about her journey of self-hatred and her eventual self-love. She wrote in chronicle order of her life beginning at the age of two. She recalled, “Whirling happily in my starchy frock, showing off my biscuit-polished …show more content…
However, with a discolored scar tissue blemish on her eye, she no longer felt pretty. The world became much darker for Alice.
Alice tone took a change. She explained how she struggled in school and simple tasks became difficult for her. Alice’s peers called her mean names and she was constantly bullied. Her reaction was to withdraw from the outside world.
At the age of twelve, she would stand in front of the mirror, ranting and raving. She would beg for the scar tissue to disappear, she told the “glob” that she hated it. She never prayed for her sight to return, but she prayed for beauty.
Two years later, Alice had a surgical procedure to remove most of the scar tissue from her eye. Alice wrote, “Almost immediately I become a different person” (26). She explained that her world changes for the better. She won the boyfriend of her dreams and made many friends. She became very popular. Her grades improved, and she even graduated class