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As a child, Alice was adored by everyone in town because of how cute she was, which in turn, caused physical beauty to be one of the most important things to her. But one day, Alice’s life was completely turned around when one of her brothers shot her in the eye with a BB gun. She was 200 not so much worried about the fact that she was blind in one eye; all she could think about was what she looked like. The pellet left what Walker described as a “glob of whitish scar tissue” on her eye. To Alice, she was not that beautiful little girl anymore and that was the only thing that mattered. In her story she says, “Now when I stare at people - a favorite pastime, up to now - they will stare back. Not at the ‘cute’ little girl, but at her scar. For 300 six years I do not stare at anyone, because I do not raise my head” (252). Because she was teased by her peers at school and was constantly questioned about her scar, she gained a sense of inferiority in association with other people. Many tough years went by, and at the age of fourteen, one of Alice’s brothers took her to a doctor to get most of the scar-372 tissue removed from her eye. Her eye was left with only a small bluish scar and she felt that she “almost immediately became a different person from them 400 girl who does not want to raise her head” (254). After gaining this new found confidence, she left high school as valedictorian and the most popular student, got the guy of her dreams, and had tons of friends. Even though the issues with her appearance seemed to have been solved, they still sat in the back of her mind. Walker became a famous writer and one day found herself regressing when a journalist needed to take a picture of her for a magazine. Alice finally learned how to love herself when her three year old daughter explained to her that she 500 had a world in her eye. Despite all of the emotional pain caused by her scarred eye, she was able to appreciate the fact that she could at...
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