be criticized, harassed, or made fun of for almost anything in life, whether they can help it or not. Alice Walker’s essay, “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self,” is a story that depicts the harassment and embarrassment in a young girl’s life. The theme behind the story is based on the struggle and battle that Walker goes through due to her need to recognize her inner beauty and outer beauty for years on end. Walker uses many literary elements to portray the theme of her essay, which can be
I made in a few texts. The one that I decided to focus on is called “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self,” by Alice Walker. What stood out to me the most when reading it is how one significant incident in her childhood shaped her mindset for the rest of her life. When Walker was 8 years old, one of her brothers hit in the eye with a bb gun and injured her to the point where she had a cataract. It extremely lowered her self-esteem since she was made fun of and received frequent stares. She “ranted
In her autobiographical, narrative/essay “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self,” Alice Walker uses a childhood accident that left her disfigured and blind in one eye to take the readers on, a profound journey of her physical and psychological ups and downs. Walker is a well-known Pulitzer Prize winning African-American novelist and poet, although her accomplishments came with many struggles. Walker lets the readers in on her struggles she faced growing up, “Something inside me cringes, and gets
lets the reader see things through the authors eyes. In “Beauty, When the Other Dancer is the Self” by: Alice Walker, the use of figurative language plays a crucial role, and allows the reader to see what she sees how she sees it. The use of figurative language allows the reader to understand the world through the authors eyes. Tone is what allows the audience to feel how the author feels. In narratives, this is a very important tool; when the audience can feel what the author does, than they will