Beauty: When the other dancer is the self - by alice walker This piece was nicely transitioned in that Alice walker brings you from a young age of 2 or so and shows how her self image and confidence are both beautiful and strong to an 8 yearold who has been injured creating what she sees as a physical defect for many years not unlike Lucy Grealy she is also ridiculed by her appearance and takes that as part of her personality. Until she has a surgery to change her appearance she dosent continue her life as confidently as she did prior to the "accident" . After the surgical correction she becomes positive and is accepting of her Beauty inside and out . Her Daughter seeing a world in her eye and not a deformity just raises that confidence. I truly liked this story better because walker comes to terms with her appearance and goes through life happily where as I dont think that Gearly ever did and ultimately caused her demise.
Shooting an elephant: George Orwell I found this piece to be a little disturbing in that the author begins the writing with such distaste with not only the job he is asigned to but the country he services and its government. The place where he is serving as a police officer shows no respect for his position and they demonstrate that by abusing him at every chance they got. Orwell definately describes the feeling of being an out cast ridiculed by the people(yellow faced) he is supposed to be protecting. In order to show strenght to thousands of the yellow faced individules he end s up killing and elephant which has gone rampant and later calms just so he "wouldnt look a fool". I wonder if the very suffering that the elephant goes through demonstates an example his whole experience in Burma. The fact tht Orwell says he does not want to kill the elephant on multiple occasions and does it any way peaks my courosity on how threatend he really was by these 2 thousand "unarmed' individuls.
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Beauty: When the other dancer is the self - by alice walker
ReplyDeleteThis piece was nicely transitioned in that Alice walker brings you from a young age of 2 or so and shows how her self image and confidence are both beautiful and strong to an 8 yearold who has been injured creating what she sees as a physical defect for many years not unlike Lucy Grealy she is also ridiculed by her appearance and takes that as part of her personality. Until she has a surgery to change her appearance she dosent continue her life as confidently as she did prior to the "accident" .
After the surgical correction she becomes positive and is accepting of her Beauty inside and out . Her Daughter seeing a world in her eye and not a deformity just raises that confidence. I truly liked this story better because walker comes to terms with her appearance and goes through life happily where as I dont think that Gearly ever did and ultimately caused her demise.
Shooting an elephant: George Orwell
ReplyDeleteI found this piece to be a little disturbing in that the author begins the writing with such distaste with not only the job he is asigned to but the country he services and its government. The place where he is serving as a police officer shows no respect for his position and they demonstrate that by abusing him at every chance they got. Orwell definately describes the feeling of being an out cast ridiculed by the people(yellow faced) he is supposed to be protecting. In order to show strenght to thousands of the yellow faced individules he end s up killing and elephant which has gone rampant and later calms just so he "wouldnt look a fool". I wonder if the very suffering that the elephant goes through demonstates an example his whole experience in Burma. The fact tht Orwell says he does not want to kill the elephant on multiple occasions and does it any way peaks my courosity on how threatend he really was by these 2 thousand "unarmed' individuls.