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“What is Beauty?” In her autobiographical story Alice Walker tells about how after the “accident” of losing sight in one eye she was never the same. At the young age of eight she was above all others in wit, looks, and talents. I think that the loss of her sight is not what blinded her most, but her unwillingness to except what had happened. Over that next six years she would not ever hold her …

…the same way. But if this would have happened to me, I would have not dwelled on my loss but on my gain. In many ways she could see the world in a different way, this has made Alice walker an outstanding writer, with a unique point of view. What first came to mind when I read this story was something that my mother once told me “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”.