It is society and the media's fault...

In Walker's story she believed that she was no longer that cute little girl that she used to be.   I think that if I was in her shoes I would have done the same thing.  I would have wanted to mask my eye from everyone in fear of not being accepted.  It makes you wonder why do the marks and blemishes make us want to hide from society?  Why can't we all be happy with what we have?  

We always want to have that perfect body and that new surgery to enhance our figures.  Her story is just an example of what society and the media have portrayed on  us.  Even though her incident took place many years ago it was still pressure from her surroundings that made her feel uncomfortable with herself and her eye.  If people would have accepted the fact that she had gotten in an accident then maybe she would not have felt as embarrassed.  

If this happened in todays world, in my opinion it would have been worse.  The media just puts so much pressure on us to look flawless when in reality this is not at all possible.  We see all of these celebrities on the cover of magazines and on television shows all fixed up to look this perfect way but it is not real.  "Normal people" do not have this ability to be made up this way so why should it be accepted?

Alice Walker's story proves that just because you have a noticeable mark on your body or in this case your eye does not mean that life stops.  You need to go out and be proud of your mark and just let it be another thing that sets you apart from the rest of society.  In the end what the media and society portray is very negative and in the long run only hurts people detrimentally.