Alice Walker Beauty When The Other Dancer Is The Self Analysis
Torian Vaughn Jr.
Prof. Ashkevron
ENGL111
22 Sept. 2013
Don 't Change A person’s perception of anything is always influenced by their experiences. Alice Walker, the writer of “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self”, is no different in regards to her perception of beauty. Walker uses various stylistic elements throughout her writing to convey her shifting outlook toward her own beauty. She also employs various rhetorical strategies in order to deliver a clear and luring story that keeps the reader engaged as she describes her life as a flashback. Walker uses the accident that happens during her childhood to prove that one’s mindset can be altered because of a profound experience and how her attitude completely transforms from a …show more content…
“Then, one day, it ended,” she says (Walker). This is the beginning of the second part of her story. She is talking about when she was shot in her right eye and lost her sight and she wasn 't pretty anymore (Walker). It appears that the tone that Alice used in Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self is a nice, calm tone. I say a nice, calm tone because nobody in the writing never got upset or angry. There wasn 't ever any arguing in the story and everyone seemed to get along. The only problem was when Alice talked about how she was picked on in school about her eye. Also the form in the story complements the content. The message that Alice was trying to deliver succeeds in fulfilling her intentions. Her intentions once again were to never let anything that you can overcome change the person that you are and be you no matter what happens to you. Alice also fits her messages to the circumstances to , times, for her audience. Since Alice wrote these she has to have some very good values because it takes a positive person most of the time for them to conquer something like this that has happened to
Prof. Ashkevron
ENGL111
22 Sept. 2013
Don 't Change A person’s perception of anything is always influenced by their experiences. Alice Walker, the writer of “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self”, is no different in regards to her perception of beauty. Walker uses various stylistic elements throughout her writing to convey her shifting outlook toward her own beauty. She also employs various rhetorical strategies in order to deliver a clear and luring story that keeps the reader engaged as she describes her life as a flashback. Walker uses the accident that happens during her childhood to prove that one’s mindset can be altered because of a profound experience and how her attitude completely transforms from a …show more content…
“Then, one day, it ended,” she says (Walker). This is the beginning of the second part of her story. She is talking about when she was shot in her right eye and lost her sight and she wasn 't pretty anymore (Walker). It appears that the tone that Alice used in Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self is a nice, calm tone. I say a nice, calm tone because nobody in the writing never got upset or angry. There wasn 't ever any arguing in the story and everyone seemed to get along. The only problem was when Alice talked about how she was picked on in school about her eye. Also the form in the story complements the content. The message that Alice was trying to deliver succeeds in fulfilling her intentions. Her intentions once again were to never let anything that you can overcome change the person that you are and be you no matter what happens to you. Alice also fits her messages to the circumstances to , times, for her audience. Since Alice wrote these she has to have some very good values because it takes a positive person most of the time for them to conquer something like this that has happened to