Analysis Of Beauty Is Truth By Anna Guest

Analysis Of Beauty Is Truth By Anna Guest

Truth is Real Beauty

In the short story by Anna Guest, "Beauty is Truth," the main character learned that to be beautiful is to be true to who you really are. The same concept applies for the article, "US Beauty queen Victoria Graham doesn't hide her scars," written by Victoria St. Martin. These two sources have the theme that something beautiful doesn't have to be perfect or pretty, it has to be real and truthful.

In the short story, "Beauty is Truth" written by Anna Guest, is about a girl,Jeanie, her mom and her brother Billy. Billy gets in trouble for gambling and Jeanie's mom beats Billy for it. At first, Jeanie didn't understand why her mom beat Billy, but when she did, Jeanie understood her English assignment to "'Write about Beauty and truth. About life,''' (309). Which means to write about something real in your life. However, some people might think that their life has too many hardships and challenges, but that's what makes life so beautiful. It's all about how the people would face the challenges and problem–solve. Similarly, Miss Lowry was asking the students to write about their real, at–home and out of school situations. That's what the teacher in the story, Miss Lowy, was asking the children to write about. Comparably, in the outside source, "US Beauty queen Victoria Graham doesn't hide her scars," written by Victoria St. Martin, describes a life of a US Beauty Queen that embraces her differences. After falling from a gymnastics bar when she was 10, and felt pain in her back, it never went away. And when at the age of 19, Graham was diagnosed as having the Ehlers–Danlos Syndrome, also known as EDS. In the article, the author says that Graham's, " skull was unattached and then reattached to her vertebrae. Her spine is fused, except for one level at the base. Her spinal cord was untethered from her spine twice. I set a birthdays were spent in the hospital. And she got the back scar," ( Martin 7). Once she understood, in her heart, that she was beautiful, despite the thoughts about having a 25 inch scar down the center of her back, she embraced who she was and believed that she was beautiful. So, Graham decides to let her condition run wild. In the article, the author said what Graham did,

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