Alice Walker Beauty Analysis

Beauty is written by Alice Walker, through the story she explains how since she was little everyone used to always tell her how cute she was or how adorable she looked. After the incident she had with her brother every time she would talk to someone they would always look into her eye and she always felt like she was ugly or that people always felt sorry for her. That incident change her whole life and she felt that it also changed her. I chosed the second topic because I think it’s an easier topic and also because I feel I can talk more about how she felt after what happened to her eye rather than the first topic. After she had the accident in her right eye, she no longer was the same towards people and her self stim went down. The blinding …show more content…
When her daughter grabbed her by the head and looked straight into her eye, she tough she was going to ask her what had happened to her eye or she was going to start saying not so nice things about it but instead of that she looked deep into her eye and said there was a world inside her eye. By her daughter telling her this words she gains strength and is able to put herself up and understand that even though people always looked at her in a different way and even though her brothers didn’t learned a lesson to what happened to her, she knew that her eye had went thru so much stuff just like she had and that in the background of her eye there was a story to tell. A story of a strong little girl who grew up with just being able to look thru one eye and that she learned a great lesson from it. “For the most part, the pain left then. Crying and laughing I ran to the bathroom, while Rebecca mumbled and sang herself off to sleep” In my textual evidence, it supports my answer because it’s demonstrating the way she felt after her daughter told her she had a world in her eye instead of her telling her mean things towards the scar as any other little kid would have done