Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self.
In the essay, "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self" by Alice Walker, is about self .
realization, and that the world is what we make it to be. As a child Alice Walker has great .
confidence in herself, her capabilities, and her beauty or cuteness. We see the different changes .
and her realizations about herself, that she goes through throughout her life. In the end Walker .
realizes that she has the whole world at her fingertips and can succeed at whatever she wants to .
do.
She shows that she is confident in her beauty at the age of two and a half when she wants to go .
to the fair with her father and tells him "take me daddy. I"m the prettiest." She also shows she is .
confident in her capabilities and her beauty on Easter Sunday, 1950, when she is all dressed up .
in a green, flocked, scalloped-hem dress that had a smooth, satin petticoat and hot pink roses. .
She feels everyone is admiring her beautiful dress. Alice also states that it was not her dress .
they admired, but it was her spirit they adored. She thanks them to this day for saying things like .
"isn't she the cutest thing" or "and got so much sense" because she didn't stammer or pause .
while she stood and said her speech in church. What Alice does not see at this age is that .
people were racist towards her. Where we see this the racism is, also in church on Easter .
Sunday, when she goes to say her speech and the people whisper to each other "that girl is a .
little mess.".
Her first change comes when she is eight years old and a tomboy. Her older brothers were given .
BB guns and she was not given one because she is a girl and not a boy. Soon after getting the .
Guns, one of her brothers shoots the gun at her and hits her in the eye with a copper pellet. Her .
parents seem to do everything they can for her, but it is a week later when she sees the doctor. .
The prognosis of the doctor is when he says that "Eyes are sympathetic, if one is blind, the other .
