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Amy Anthrop
Ms. Ashkevron
English 111
09/14/2012

Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the ego is an essay written by Pulitzer winner Alice

walker. In 1983, Walker published a collection of essays, In Search of Our Mothers garden

that included this title. This is a story of a girl who was brought up in a poor family and later

experiences a tragic accident that ruins her vision in one eye, after organismness shot by her brothers BB gun.

This tragedy causes her embarrassment not solitary(prenominal) to her just now peers and others around her, but internal

embarrassment as well. It isnt until after the birth of her child that she begins to feel better rough

the damage that was done.

The story begins with our character describing her simple life in 1947. She tells us about her

parents, her father is a driver for a wealthy women, Miss Mey, and her mother, who is busy raising

eight children. We delay that Miss Mey is the richest women in town and that owns not

only our storytellers home, but all the land for miles. Her father has to decide which of his eight

children to hold back to the fair, since there is only room for three in the car. The storyteller is not surprised

that her father picked her, because she always insist to go where always her father goes.



We learn that

three years later, she is chosen to enunciate at the Easter sermon at her church and how everyone adore

her and whispered about how cute she was. It was great fun being cuteshe said. But one day that

all ended. (Walker p96)

At age eight, we learn our character is a tomboy and enjoys work out along with her brothers. We

also learn that she dresses like her brothers, only discrepancy is the color of their clothes. Her brothers,

two and four years older than her, proceed BB guns from their parents. They use their BB guns to pretend

they are the characters in the western movies.

Since she didnt score a BB gun, she forced to play the part of the...If you want to direct a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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