Autobiography of a Face

Everyone who is suffering some kind of illness has seen his or her life difficult. What we can think about a child who has to live with a difficult disease that makes his or her life hard. Lucy Grealy who was a special person wrote a book "Autobiography of a Face" in which she explained how she lived with Ewing's sarcoma at age of nine years. She went through the pain of being operated and part of her jaw was removed. Then, she suffered the cruelty comments of her classmates and the conflict between two warring impulse: to feel that we want to be loved for who we are, while wishing desperately and secretly to be perfect. Lucy Grealy's life was very difficult the cruelty of the children and the pain of been someone different to who she was and to who she knew was very hard to assume for a 9 years old little girl. All those factors made her different from everyone, her extraordinary strength that she had to fight and overcome that disease and the desire to succeed made her looks very mature. She suffered the conflict of been loved for who she was at