Here the native people brought the green banana to fix their car, this is them showing their authenticity and what they have come up with themselves and passing it on to people they don't even have to care about at all. After learning what the native people had told him he realizes himself that, "We tend to define the center of our world" (Batchelder). Gaining a second opinion in this case how to fix a cars radiator he sees through that, it's important to be yourself because being yourself could help someone else and when you help someone else you change the world. .
Alice Walker embodies the fact that we need to accept our appearance to help us strive to be authentic because if we don't how can we accept ourselves and how can we gain a sense of self if we can't even accept our on appearance. She tells us that we need to accept our whole self. "It was fun being cute once" (Walker). In the beginning she was really accepting toward the way that she looked, she was always hiding it from her daughter and was always worried about what her daughter thought about it. Even other people she didn't even know would ask, "What's a matter with your eye?" (Walker). The fact that random people would ask her about her eye too didn't help her confidence because it was already extremely low. But, at her lowest point in confidence her appearance her daughter at two years old said, "Mommy where did you get that world in your eye?"(Walker). After she had asked that one question she realized that she shouldn't let her flaws define her. This is important when striving to be authentic because accepting the way you look helps you be able to not worry about what you look and not care what others thing of you gaining a sense of who you are and helping you be well, you.
Zora Neal Huston is an example of a person who worked hard to strive for greatness, "no one on this earth had a greater chance for glory" (Huston).