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Analysis Of Beauty Of A Dancer By Alice Walker

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The essay “Beauty of a dancer” by Alice Walker describes a powerful event that happens in her life when she was a chaild that changed her. She is young bright girl who is at the top of her class and is the little spark in her family. She is the beautiful girl and she knows it. One accident changes all that and the way she feels about herself for the majority of her life. Her brother owns a new toy Pellet gun rifle. As they were playing outside she was shot in her eye. The wound left her slightly blind and a noticeable scare on her eye. She no longer felt beautiful because of the scar and how people treated her after. It had a significant effect on her actions. Alice Walker does not see the pretty girl in the …show more content…

Even in sports the Basketball player that will not take a shot reason for he dose not want be perceived as a weak player. Same as the guy in the weight room trying to lift more then he actual can to seem stronger. These events occur when there are other people watching
We act in certain way to resemble certain traits. The actions of the weight lifter would not have been to try to lift more than he could if he did not care that the girl in the corner preforming squats was watching. Since he wants to seen as a strong and protective guy he shifts his action from lifting his normal healthy weight to a punishing amount of weight. The student that clearly has the answerer to the teacher’s question would have answered if she had not cared how others would have judged her. She dose not want to lose the rewards of being sensed as smart.
Traits carries benefits and affects the way people act towards them. As seen here, the pretty girl gets almost anyone she wants. The handsome men or women approach her with relationship opportunity. She is more likely to get raise at her new job or accepted school or acknowledged when giving a speech furthermore, she gets nearly what ever she wants most of the time like free drinks at the bar moreover, it builds her confidences. Much like Alice Walker in her essay “Beauty” discusses the benefits she has as a cute child. Walker states” Someone has told me fairs are fun. That there is room in the

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