natural beauty
Natural Beauty In the both stories ''Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self,'' by Alice Walker and ''Eye of the Beholder,'' by Grace Suh, talk about two girls and their struggles with accepting their beauty. Walker hates herself because she has scar on her right eye and cannot see, and Suh hates her face because she was not born natural beautiful. Their biggest turning point was that at the beginning of the stories they hate themselves and at the end they realized that they are greatful for what they have, and also they start loving their natural beauty. Alice Walker as a young child was very confdent and content, but accident left her insecure. Alice brother shot her in the right eye with his BB gun. As a result Alice became blind and her eye developed with white scar tissue. Every night she tells herself how much she hatesher blind eye and she prays that when she will wake up it will be gone and she will be beautiful again. Walker kept concentrating on her negativites throughtout the story until she went to doctors who said, ''Eyes are sympatethic; he says: If one is blind the other will likely become blind too'' (Walker 195). Then she realized that she should be greatful for the fact that she still has site in one of her eyes and that she has the opportunity to see many beautiful things. Grace Suh is a girl who has struggle with accepting her beauty. She feels negative about her natural beauty. When she sees a woman that looks like a person with make up supplies, Suh comes up to her because she hopes that the woman can make her beautiful. Strangly Suh realized she does not feel comfortable with herself ''Hideous. I don't even look human. Look at my eyes. You can't even see me!'' (Suh 189). She thinks that she is not herself and looks completely fake. At the end of the story, Suh leaves the make up bag, that she bought either way on the bus, because she feels more comfortable and beautiful the way she naturally looks. Walker and Suh at the