Friday, October 18, 2013

Beauty: When the Other Dancer is Self

Please read Alice Walker's essay and post a response in the comments section below.

17 comments:

  1. She knows when she is young and small shes cute and gets it all and with no worries. she starts to get older and realize shes not cute anymore she doesn't want that but to have fun and see the world. she stumbles over an obstacle by getting hit in the eye by a BB from her brothers. she is a caring person towards her family and lies so they wont get in trouble. than notices that she doesn't feel so pretty anymore and thinks that shes changed so she asks her family if she has because she feels grotesque about herself since the "accident". she gets bullied about it so she moves away to her grandmas and her older brother and his wife take her to the hospital and have the "glob" removed and she feels better about herself more confident and alive. then, she feels like her daughter will judge her on the scar that is left on her eye but she doesn't she calls it "her world" and realizes its a beautiful thing.she her self feels beautiful, free, and whole.

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  3. Veronicka Espinosa

    This essay definitely made me tear up. I think the basic ideas of this essay were Self Love, Acceptance and Appreciation. These are topics that I think everybody can relate to. After her accident, it took many years for her to actually accept and embrace the beauty that she let slip away. She focused so much on the fact that she lost an eye, she didn't even realize that she was lucky enough to still have one left. I think when the thought finally struck her, it opened up her heart and mind and allowed her to finally see life for its beauty and not it's flaws.

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  4. Alice Walker narrates her childhood and misunderstands what beauty really is because after her accident. She then feels ashamed and insecure due to the fact that she did not feel pretty anymore. However, many years later her daughter makes her realize what beauty is really about.

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  5. This was a truly inspiring essay that Alice Walker wrote. I absolutely loved reading this I was so entertainment with everything. Just to know that she had this tragic accident happen to her and in the end she was still able to stand strong with her head held up high. But even though she became a writer and found love she expected to be happy but never really was until her little girl told her that she had the world in her eye. For me at that moment I felt as though she finally had closer with everything just to know that her little girl wouldn't be ashamed or judge her in any way. Her little girl gave her, her final closing in that chapter of her life. She is now more confident and self accepting of who she is.

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  6. This essay that Alice Walker wrote could relate to many girls including me. Today many people define beauty as in appearance rather then it being what is inside of someone. We let our appearances influence how we see our selves and our self-worth. That is what Alice was trying to explain to us in her essay that she had to deal with losing her self-esteem due to a BB gun accident that left her bind from one eye. She gained back her self-esteem when she got older. She realized that her true beauty came from within her and she no longer had to feel ugly, she was free and is able to love who she has became.

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  7. Beauty:When the Other Dance Is Self by Alice walker explained how she had a accident on her eye. She felt ugly and was embarrassed about her eye. In school other kids made fun of her. While the years passed she managed to overcome and accept how she looked. Life got much better for her after being confident about herself. Her daughter gave her a motivation to feel beautiful about herself.

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  8. This essay ultimately says, that the people in life who matter the most to you,won't judge you. The people who love you for who you are will not judge by the outer appearance. That is what walker comes to find out in the end of the essay when her daughter see's the "world" in her moms eyes. Once her daughter said this she said she felt as if she was set free. When people worry every single day if people are judging them based on their appearance then they aren't truly living and embracing their life. They are hiding from the wonderful things in life in fear of being looked down on. People who find flaws in others often have many of their own.

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  9. Alice Walker explains the story of how she had an accident when she was younger causing her to have a bad eye.She no longer felt beautiful because of that accident. It was not until years later when her daughter told her that her eye had a world in it that she felt confident and beautiful again.

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  10. Alice Walker, in When the Other Dancer Is the Self, has an accident that changes her whole life. After she becomes blind from one eye, she is no longer the same Alice. She feels uncomfortable with people's comments, insecure about her beauty and loses self-confidence. If I was in Alice's shoes, I would not feel pretty either. The saying, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," is true. Someone's opinion, should not have a power of defining the true beauty within oneself. Alice's baby girl Rebecca helps Alice see that she does not need to hide her eye from the world, for that it reveals the beauty of another world. I believe everyone is beautiful in their own way, shape, or form it just takes a special person to see the real beauty.

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  11. In this essay Alice has an accident on one of her eyes and that makes her feel uncomfortable because she thinks shes different. She finds herself less pretty and doesnt feel confident anymore. I feel like people shouldnt feel less of themselves when something tragic happens to them. people are who they are and should be proud no matter what happens to them or what people have to say.

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  12. After reading this essay I believe Alice had a very tough childhood. She grew up with brothers and felt left out when she didn't receive a gun. Alice is very concerned about her appereance and after the accident she is not confident with her looks. She is very attached to her mother. After the surgery many joyfull experiences happen to her and she gains that great personality she had as a young girl

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  13. This essay has alot to do with accepting yourself for who you are. It's tough when an accident happens and you can't go back to the way things were before. I feel like her whole life, until the incident with her daughter, she was searching for the real beauty in her. Like she was trying to find her beauty again. It was kind of sad reading as she prepared herself for when her daughter kept starring. But it was touching how her daughter saw "the world" in her eyes. It seemed like her daughter made all the hardships from the past, go away. Everything was better and she found who she was after that.

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  14. Gabriela Cuevas
    Alice Walker's essay is about self acceptance, and realizing that any person is capable of doing what they set their mind to. It made me think that lifer is made up of how we view the world. The peoples lives are going to be set out on how they view the world. I also thought he meaning if this essay was to state that people will be happy and beautiful until they accept who they are without having to worry what others think of them.

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  15. In the beginning of the essay, Alice Walker says "I do not pray for sight. I pray for beauty." She was more concerned with her beauty than her eye sight. I really loved this essay because it teaches you to love yourself and your flaws. This essay spoke to me in more ways than one. My father lost his eye sight in one eye too but due to type 2 diabetes. He learned to be happy that he's lucky enough to see anything just like Alice Walker. I believe that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. In the end Alice learned to accept her eye and realized it was apart of who she was.

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