Alice Walker Reflection

As I read "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self" I became more sympathetic for the character because I never thought about how hard it could be to think you were beautiful with an abnormality which came from such a tramatic accident like the one she shared. You could feel the difference in the tone from when she was an excited little girl who her father picked to go to the fair, to how scared she was when she got hit in the eye by her brothers, and then the shame and resentment she felt going through each new experience with her new damaged eye, and then finally to where she became accepting and even proud of her unique part of her body that she was ashamed of throughout the whole story. I could feel the story progressing and the pain that she felt. It made me wonder what I would do if I lost something as important as sight and how I would react to it. I liked this story because everyone can realte to it. Your body no matter who you are is important to you, if you were to have a negative change in your body it would affect you inside and out. She made me as a reader realize the things that I do have and how hard it is to stand out. This story was interesting because even though I as a reader got a good feel for times in her life, it was more written from memeory, in fragments or unfinnished ideas. Each story was not necessarily finnished or resolved, but you understood writer was portraying.