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A 2 page paper which examines the writing style in When the Other Dancer is the Self by Alice Walker. No additional sources cited.
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development and growth as a child and an adult. It is a story about appearances and beauty, and then of self realization and inner beauty. The following paper examines the
authors intent, and style of writing in the story. When the Other Dancer is the Self Alice Walkers short story is a very personal and intimate story. It is
a tale of Alice as a child, a beautiful child who relied on her beauty, using it to define herself. She could not envision herself as anything outside of beautiful
and when her eye was damaged and ultimately destroyed at a young age she turned bitter. Those around her did not see that she was any different, but she felt
that part of her had seriously been destroyed. Her beauty was no longer something that was a part of her, or so she felt, and she could not understand how
others did not see the change. Her life seems to continually move towards more and more painful realities. She moves from her old school to a new school, then back.
She states that back in her old school the only thing that makes life bearable is her teacher, then she follows this with "It is her presence that finally helps
me turn on the one child at the school who continually calls me one-eyed bitch" (Walker). Her story is powerful, intimate, and incredibly personal. She moves on, with her mother
dying and her life just seeming to move from one disaster to another. Then she is an adult and she tells us that the "accident" when she lost her
eye, has forever directed her life, angered her, made her a resentful creature in one way or another. Everything can be traced to the accident when her beauty vanished. But
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