Beauty vs. Pain

Author's Note: This was my finally piece and I did it on Text analysis. This is my last essay.

Beauty, is really important to everyone. It may hurt but people don’t care. The little girls grandma had foot binding, she was terrified of ribbons. The little girl was a ballerina and had a ribbon to wrap around her feet but when her grandma say she was in shock and stopped her. Beauty In china is different than what other people really think beauty is.

In china how they show beauty is called “foot binding”. Foot binding happens when you are a little girl. Just  like the grandma in story she would go through the same thing. “When a girl was about five, her mother would gradually bend her toes under the sole of her foot.”The grandma hated it she also had pain in her feet. But luckily they banded foot binding in 1912. China called this beauty, but therefore this type of beauty wasn’t the greatest feeling ever.

Since this kind of beauty would be painful the girl in this story was a little girl that had to go through the same pain she also was a ballerina. Which meant she needed help with tying the ribbon around her foot. As she was trying to tie them on her foot her grandma took the ribbon away from her. When she looked back at the satin ribbons, it was with a hate and disgust that I had never seen before.  “Give those to me.”  She held out her hand.” At this point her grandma was probably thinking about the pain in her feet and how much pain her daughter would be in.

What we can learn from this story  traditions is that people see beauty in all different ways. But in this story I learned that beauty can hurt just like in the story they talked about foot binding and how the grandma was just looking out for her granddaughter so she wouldn’t get hurt either. 

Even though back then Chinas beauty was painful and different. Today in the world people also have different ways in their beauty styles. While people see beauty differently all they want to do is make themselves feel good about them.