Alice Walker: Beauty: When the other dancer is the self..

The theme that I felt most powerful in this essay was Beauty. Alice grew up always being complemented on how cute she was and enjoyed hearing so from her many neighbors. However, one day while Alice was sitting on top of her garage she is accidently got shot in the eye by her brothers BB gun. Alice waited a week to visit her doctor and by that time her face was damaged. Her face no longer looked the same ,and she was no longer a cute little girl. She refused to raise her head in public in fear of what others will think of her. After the accident Alice claimed to feel as if she was a different person. She didnt think she was the same anymore after she got shot in the eye. Later on in life Alice received surgery to fix the damaged area around her eye. It didnt come out perfect, but Alice was no longer afraid to raise her head in public. Eventually, Alice was asked to be on the cover of a magazine in recognition of her wonderful writing skills. However, Alice was very fearful about having her face on the cover of a magazine. After having a child Alice fears for the day her child will notice her mom has a different eye than everyone else. But, one day when putting her child to sleep Alice's child looks her in the eye and says "Mommy, there's a world in your eye." Alice claims that her pain disappeared as soon as she heard those words come from her child. All children are harsh with facil differences, but to hear such loving words out of a childs mouth really changed Alice's persepective on true beauty.