Dunni Essay

I plead with it to clear up before morning. I hate and despise it. I do not pray for sight. I pray for beauty.” Until Walker went under the knife she was filled with anguish and pain at her eye, but once its appearance was improved did her emotional and sociable out looks begin to change for the better. With that Walker is living proof that ones physical traits can have an adverse impact on ones self worth and perspective . It also proves that society's rule and views of "beauty" can affect a persons life and the way they interact with those around them. Walker eventually find peace with her eye when her child note that there is a world in it and that flawed eye became that more beautiful. and after a dream Alice walker accepted both her eye and her self worth “As I dance, whirling and joyous, happier than I’ve ever been in my life, another bright faced dancer joins me. We dance and kiss each other and hold each other through the night. The other dancer has obviously come through all right, as I have done. She is beautiful, whole, and free. She is also me.” She also realizes it is not beauty that brings happiness but the ability to accepted ones self no matter the

Both authors enhance their stories to their readers by using descriptive writing. Walker shows in her writing what she went through in her life before and after the accident with her eye. While showing and helping

4. In paragraph 8, Eighner presents three principles one must follow to eat safely from a Dumpster; in paragraphs 59-60 he explains how to go through a Dumpster; and throughout the essay he includes many cautions and warnings. Clearly, he does not expect his audience to take up Dumpster diving. What, then, is his purpose in including such detailed explanations?

In the short story “The Harvest” by Amy Hempel, an unnamed narrator is in a horrible car accident, where her leg is permanently disfigured. The story takes place after the accident, when the narrator is attempting to process the life changing event that’s just happened to her. The story is broken up into two parts,in the first part she describes the accident and the aftermath - the accident, the hospital, the recovery. But she opens the second half of the story by admitting that not everything we just read is factual. The struggle she is having throughout the story is to cope with and understand her accident, but her emotional distress inhibits that. The narrator conveys her instability and vulnerability that the accident caused in through the ways she decides to alter the details of her story. Although she goes through the process of reflecting on why she does this, she doesn’t come out the other side feeling less confused about why her accident happened to her, or any less unstable and vulnerable.

Walker discovered her personal identity when she got into an accident that left a scar not only in her physical but into her life, she was insisted on a fight, and she even lost her self confidence and same as Cofer’s she faced discrimination and was disrespected. It was stressed in Walker’s, “after months, of torture at the school, my parents decide to send me back to our old community, to my old school.”(444) and also when she said that she beat a child at her old school who continually calls her ”one-eyed bitch” (445). On the other hand, Walker’s discovery differs from Staples’ because she was not feared nor misjudged. The epiphanies the three writers experienced, led them into their discovery of their personal knowledge and identity.

In the American society, a lot of things are being thrown away. Sometimes those things that is been tossed are still valuable to us. There are also times that people that dumpster dive are not all homeless or poor anymore. I don’t think this changes people’s thinking dumpster diving will raise awareness neither will reduce the amount of stuff thrown away. I think is it simply showing that we can not control what is being thrown out and from being a throwaway society. The essay “Dumpster Diving” by Lars Eighner talks about his own experience of living out of a dumpster. In his essay, it illustrates how wasteful people can be sometimes. people not only throwing food but also furniture, clothing and other household items.

In the beginning of the essay, Walker shares childhood event that help shape her character. She describes how when she was two, she got chosen to go to the fair by her father because of her beauty, “Take me, Daddy, I’m the prettiest” She reveals that she thought people admired and glorified her because “she is the cutest thing”. She felt that everyone “seem to hold their breath” in her presence. “I can tell they admire my dress, but it is my spirt, bordering my sassiness (womanishness), they secretly applaud.” She illistartes that she was also adored because of her personality, which was confident and self-assured until it all changed. “it was great fun being cute. But then, one day, it ended.” After her accident the doctor said “ Eyes are sympathetic, If one is blind, the other will likely become blind too” which “terrified’ her. Although this was a professional opinion, but it never became true physically but symbolically it showed that she was blind that she didn’t see the positive and beauty in life, which she felt people didn’t see that In herself.

She shows herself as cowardly when she was reeling after the accident, “For six years I do not stare at anyone, because I do not raise my head.”(444), she says, portraying her disgust for herself. Walker utilizes the tone of her writing to manipulate the progression of her attitude shift. For instance, in the stages soon after the accident she uses a very morbid and pessimistic tone to describe the events that are transpiring at that juncture of her life. Stating, “I do not pray for sight. I pray for beauty.”(445), proving that even though this accident has occurred she has still remained very resistant to a change in attitude. She also couples detail to multiply the effect that these strategies have on the reader because when she describes these events, the details she uses reflects the tone, so it visibly transmits the idea of her attitude at that phase, which would be much harder to achieve without these rhetorical techniques used appropriately. The dialogue also plays into this idea as well as it also reflects the current mood of the stage. For example, when she was still very young she used very flattering words as dialogue to complement the tone where she thought beauty was everything and being most beautiful was most important. “That girl’s a little mess.”(442), “And got so much sense!”(442), people bombard

Although Lar Eighner, writer of “On Dumpster Diving”, began dumpster diving when he became homeless, he believes the act should be referred to as scavenging. When first beginning to dumpster dive, he felt scavenging was not very challenging, rather he felt that he could find what he needed with simply looking. All it would take is a fraction of athleticism just to lower their body into the dumpster, but also knowing how to distinguish if the food they were about to consume was decent or better just to leave it where it was found. Not thinking highly and becoming frustrated with those who would ask if the food found in the dumpsters were acceptable for eating. I am fond of his offerings of ways to succeed. One example offered to visit a pizza

A form of adversity is in Alice Walker’s essay, “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self”, it shows how a person’s perception of everything is always greatly influenced by their past experiences. Walker uses various elements throughout her writing to show her outlook towards her appearance. Walker uses the incident that happened in her childhood to show that a persons mindset can be changed by a experience and how her attitudes changes from a sassy, conceited kid to a matured and powerful women who finally sees beauty in her life. Alice Walker’s essay is a great example of a person whose fear of adversity allowed themselves to be worn down by it. She begins the story with a cocky outlook on life where she knows she is beautiful. “I’m the prettiest!” (Alice Walker), as a young child she would use her

If really only out of need for survival, anyone is capable of doing what needs to be done

“On Dumpster Diving” by Lars Eighner the author starts his piece by saying what dumpsters mean to himself, other people and hobos. Then he goes on telling his story of when he began Dumpster diving. He mentions that he prefers to call it scavenging rather than dumpster diving because he lacks the ability of lowering himself into the dumpsters. Eighner savings ran out and he put all his income into rent. To get all his life necessities he turn to the dumpsters to get everything he needed except for jeans. After saying that he goes on talking about “What is safe to eat?” (Eighner). He says that they use senses and common sense to evaluate the found material. Later he mentions the types of foods he tries to avoid and the one they consider safe. The dumpster they love to go scavenging is the ones from colleges, because the students throw away many valuable things and food. After that the author talks about the stages a person goes through when they are learning to scavenge. First they are shy and disgust, but later after finding things they began liking it; the shyness starts going away, but some could end up being psycho. They start believing that all glass is silver and all glister stuff is gold. Later, he says how they gain weight because of the type of food they mostly find. After, he says that they could find really interesting stuff and lots of information in a household trashcan, but they try not to judge the person by the things they find in

“No, Jack. No! No! Hold on!” Sara screamed too late. She had been strolling along the bridge with her friend Jack when he hit an uneven crack and stumbled over the edge. For the rest of his life, Jack was paralyzed because he fractured his spine. Sara could not come to terms with his injury and blamed herself for his paralysis. Even though she had nothing to do with his fall, she felt an overwhelming sense of guilt. Every night for three months, her mind would replay this incident. In her dreams the experience was the same except that she was the one who fell over the bridge instead of Jack. Eventually, once Sara confronted Jack about his fall and tried to apologize, he told her that it was all his fault and there was nothing she could have done to have changed the outcome. This conversation gave Sara the opportunity to address the cause of her guilt and continue to move forward in her life.

Twyla and Roberta have separate memories of Maggie’s fall with Roberta recalling that Maggie was black and was knocked down by the older girls, and Twyla stating that Maggie fell and was “sandy-colored”. Maggie’s androgynous race illustrates that “ the fact that Twyla really doesn’t know the race Maggie belonged to is a testament to the fact that race made little difference in the power hierarchy of the orchard”(Hardy 251). The discrepancies between the two versions show the difference between Twyla and Roberta’s view on the past. Roberta takes on a racially charged, violent view compared to Twyla’s resigned view towards the allotment of fate in life. Twyla says that, “Roberta had messed up my past somehow with that business about Maggie. I wouldn’t forget a thing like that”(Morrison 12). Roberta’s changing of the past was such an affront because it added menace to an already justified power struggle. Because of their elevated situation over Maggie, Twyla and Roberta were delighted to finally have dominance over someone else, but this delight led to internal conflict within the two characters as well as external conflict over what happened to Maggie in later meetings.

In the short story “Everyday Use”, Alice Walker created characters that are on the search of their own identity. Walker emphasizes on the aspect of individuality in Maggie. Maggie is Mama’s younger daughter and Dee’s sister. She is very shy, nervous, and benevolent young woman. Compared to her older sister Dee, she is not smart and is less beautiful. Several years before, there was a fire at the Johnson’s first home which left Maggie with burn scars. Since Dee went away for college, she does not have a good relationship with her mother. Maggie has a very close relationship with her mother. When Dee is set for arrival, Maggie seems very anxious about Dee’s arrival. Throughout the short story Maggie grows in her own confidence. Walker doesn’t