Alice Walker's

Children are the seeds of humankind and need to flourish through the direction of their parents. Therefore we often find that children view the world through inexperienced eyes, while adults view it through experienced eyes. The way beauty is perceived differs from person to person, and a person’s perception of beauty can be changed through experience, and could end up being what shapes them. In Alice Walker’s terse story “Beauty When The Other …

…into Walker’s life as a child flourished into a new and broader understanding and meaning. This shows that as adults, we could be naïve and blind, and can be taught by a child. This idea of an adult has no age. When we hear the word adult we think teacher and experience. A child could be thought of as someone who experiences. In this concise story the child was the teacher, the “adult.”