As a child, to Alice Walker her beauty was everything. Ms. Walker thought people associated her cuteness with her being intelligent. She talked about the time the ladies at church referred to her as cute and having good sense. She always held her head up proudly and had the courage to dream of a grand future. She thought she was looking at the world with her eyes wide open.
After the loss of her vision due to being shot in the eyes with a bb gun, she seem to withdraw from life. She thought people could no longer see her beauty but only her cloudy eye. She became depressed and felt less loved by her family. When her older brother provided the surgery to remove the scar tissue, she began to regain confidence once more.
Later in life when she had a child of her own she learned that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Not until her little girl studied her face did she realized that the world was in her own eyes. She realized that she was looking at the world with her own eyes shut.
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