After reading this personal essay, we felt joyous of Renie's belief of beauty. The fact that she was also teased for her appearance brought the idea of individual beauty into play. When Renie was made fun of at a young age for her teeth, she figured that this was the same thing the young schoolgirl was going through and praised her for her different appearance, calling her beautiful in her language. This gave us a deep appreciation for Renie and this personal essay.
Renie used comparison and the stories of her childhood
when she was working at hospital in Zimbabwe and meet a school girl who were
treated like her the moment she was in 7th grade. This makes the
audience delight to know how people are the same even if they have different
color and nationality. Renie was teased
before because of her teeth when she was laughing and one boy told her:” Seriously,
no one wants to see your buck teeth” (147). Since then she was quiet and
careful to never let anyone see her teeth. The same way how the girls brought
the Tonga girl in front of her and started pointing at both Renie and the girl
nose:” you are the same” (146)! Through her experience, Renie notices that no
matter what, whether we share or not the culture, the language, and the skin,
we are the same. As they both knew what is look like to be outcast, they
learned to recognize the kindness of true friend and Renie decided to no longer
let people to define how she felt about herself; and she hopes that the school
girl too feels beautiful.
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