“What is Beauty?” In her autobiographical story Alice Walker tells about how after the “accident” of losing sight in one eye she was never the same. At the young age of eight she was above all others in wit, looks, and talents. I think that the loss of her sight is not what blinded her most, but her unwillingness to except what had happened. Over that next six years she would not ever hold her head up, Alice found that children were mean, they couldn’t live with her difference and neither could she. During her sophomore year of high school she had the ugly scar tissue removed, now all that was left was a thi