Being An Outsider

Part I of Essay
Audre Lorde was an outsider in more ways than one in the society she was living in and chose to write about. From the time she was four, her characteristics and outer appearances held qualities which enhanced this outsider status. I feel she relished the fact that she was ....

Part II of Essay
.... like her father, but is never around him much. Her dark color gives rise to her feelings of inadequacy and her mother’s treatment of her made her always feel inferior. Her first memories of herself are those looked at through eyes that enabled her only to see the outer shapes of things. Having such bad eyesight was one of the first instances where she notices her difference from others around her outside of her family. In her story where she tells of losing the glasses, she likes the fact that nothing is exactly perfect and all she reall ....