Beauty

What Beauty Means to Me

In today's society to qualify as beautiful one must meet very high standards. It is not the qualities, traits, or unique characteristics but the body, face, and hair that define beauty. After Alice Walker's eye injury her whole perception of herself changed and she spent a lot of her life dying to be accepted, as many people do including myself. One's definition of beauty can be what makes or breaks their sense self esteem, and self worth.

Alice Walker was born a pretty girl, the prettiest of her sisters according to her, until one day when an eye injury did not only alter her face but her perception of who she was. Walker believed that beauty came with advantages, "It was great fun being cute. But then, one day, it ended." (Walker 55), and without beauty what good were you. So after being injured her self esteem was so low that she couldn't even look up. As I grew up I looked up to my mother, my grandma always talked about