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8 pages in length. Lucy Grealy was victimized twice in her life: the first time being broadsided by childhood cancer that - by distorting her face - caused her insurmountable grief and torment for the rest of her life and the second time by the social dictate that branded her a deviant who was not welcome to assimilate into her own culture. The extent to which Lucy faced adversity with regularity yet still labored to overcome it is both grand and far-reaching; that through her lifelong efforts to do so only pushed her deeper and deeper into the depths of social deviance speaks to the cyclical nature of society, its stringent mandates for acceptance and the substandard image - along with the disfigurement of her face - with which Lucy had to live. No additional sources cited.
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for the rest of her life and the second time by the social dictate that branded her a deviant who was not welcome to assimilate into her own culture.
The extent to which Lucy faced adversity with regularity yet still labored to overcome it is both grand and far-reaching; that through her lifelong efforts to do so only pushed
her deeper and deeper into the depths of social deviance speaks to the cyclical nature of society, its stringent mandates for acceptance and the substandard image - along with the
disfigurement of her face - with which Lucy had to live. "I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then Ive spent fifteen years
being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of
my life" (Grealy, 2003, Back Cover). II. SOCIAL DEFINITIONS Human nature is defined by myriad elements, not the least of which is
the social need to categorize people into distinct groupings based upon certain criteria. These innate classifications can represent significant social power, as in the case of beauty, wealth and
status, or they can symbolize aspects of society that people would just as soon forget, such as physical deformity. For Lucy to become able to fully function within a
society that expects perfection from those who struggle to possess it, the presence of myriad internal and external considerations reflects the protective shield. Lucy learned that to stray from
the norm is to deviate from social acceptance; when one is deviant, she goes against the very essence of what society has deemed up to standard or good enough to
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