I Want To Be Miss America Summary

The passage’s diction is that of a serious, determined mom who is only ridiculed for wanting what is best for her child. When she writes “I know how this vignette makes me look. What kind of a mother would refuse her hungry seven-year-old daughter an après-dinner salad?” it further extends her point of her misunderstood actions. “Telling a second grader that she has to lose weight is not only uncomfortable, it is unimaginable.

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The audience’s thoughts towards her at first may have been sorrowful, but she does not want any of it. Instead, she wants people to see her for her strengths rather than her weaknesses. On the outside she may look like someone who has given up of

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The young girl who is the protagonist in the story asks “How do I look?” several times throughout. Every time she gets a new dress she is in need to know how she looks in it. This quote is portraying women in negative ways because it makes them seem like they have low self esteem and need approval for how they look. This is a stereotypical outline of a female.

“The children's mother still had on slacks and still had her head tied up in a green kerchief, but the grandmother had on a navy blue straw sailor hat with a bunch of white violets on the brim and a navy blue dress with a small white dot in the print… In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady” (O’Connor 2). This quote is important to the story because it shows the reader that the grandmother is judgmental and feels superior to others. After all, she thinks her mentality is the right one. Furthermore, O’Connor uses underdeveloped characters like the children’s mother to help make the grandmother’s traits stand out and show that almost everyone possesses these thoughts at some point in their lives in real life, and they should change to have better qualities to avoid bad situations.

Two Different Worlds The short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” written by Joyce Oates demonstrates through the main character Connie, a young girl that has been trying to find her place in the world, that people always will all have to battle their fears interwinding with their desires. First and foremost, Connie is a pretty young girl that thrives on her beauty. Her obsession with her beauty in a psychological point of view is actually her desire to have a connection with her mother. Her beauty is the one compliment that her mother will give her, “ ‘ Stop gawking at yourself.

The reason she said that is she wants her little girls to be in charge of their looks. I agree with Sharon Holbrook’s in not telling little girls they look beautiful. There are three types of things that all children should

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And until we understand that much bigger animal we’ll never understand the issue of colorism” (Crocker & Major, 2010). This quote is very true as it stands because, beauty is just a small piece

Beauty is reflected in what a women’s worth, both their past and present. I chose these two different insights from both writers as a relation to our days. Both writers define something beautiful when they feel very passionate or love towards something or someone and doesn’t matter how it may appear to another person. People can automatically refer to beauty as fitness and utility. Fat is ugly and skinny with fair skin is beautiful.

Piercy’s “Barbie Doll” takes a sarcastic approach to backlash at society and send the reader a message about what beauty really is. In “Barbie Doll”, A Barbie doll is used to show and symbolize what society views as what a female should aspire to become “perfect”. “Barbie's unrealistic body type…busty with a tiny waist, thin thighs and long legs…is reflective of our culture's feminine ideal. Yet less than two percent of American women can ever hope to achieve such dreamy measurements.”

Through the unequivocal lyrics of her song, “Scars to Your Beautiful,” Alessia Cara uses the rhetorical appeal of pathos to condemn society’s views of beauty in the form of body image as portrayed by the media. In this song, Cara addresses the ridiculous standards to which young people, especially women, are held. The lyrics of this song speak blatantly to the listener, as Cara criticizes the way that the media glorifies outward beauty as a god in the line, “She craves attention, she praises an image.” She then reinforces the idea that society believes that beauty is worthy of worship by asserting “She prays to be sculpted by the sculptor.” In this line, she is comparing a girl to a sculpture.

She would get ready and put makeup on with the intention to look good for Caroline’s father when he came to visit them, regardless of how ill she was. Little did she know, she was beautiful without it. Like the dragonflies that used to land on our hands, her beauty was prominent, if only for a split second or

Morrison states, “The assertion of racial beauty was not a reaction to self-mocking, humorous critique of cultural/racial foibles common in all groups, but against the damaging internalization of assumptions of immutable inferiority originating in an outward gaze” (11). African- American women had to reclaim their own beauty in a society that not only told them that they weren’t beautiful, but also in one that loathed them completely. The dampening of the African-American woman’s self-value did not originate in