The Innerizing of the Self and the Other

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English

 

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Bert V

 

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October 16, 2014

 

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University

 

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A

 

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People define themselves by the way others define them. In this essay, the process of absorbing outside views into the construction of self will be referred to as "innerizing." The effects of innerizing can be seen in the girl in Judith Ortiz Cofer's "The Game", the character Adah in The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, and the narrator of Brent Staples' "Black Men and Public Space...
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Outside appearances are the first characteristics that people notice before they start to know us. In "The Game" by Judith Ortiz Cofer, the humpbacked girl was born imperfect, with a body "curled into a question mark/the eternal why" (9-10). Although the family acted as if the little girl "was the same/as any of [thier] other friends" (22-23), when seeing the little girl standing at the door and waiting to go out and play, the mother still felt awed "by the sight/of one of her God's small mysteries" (27-28)...
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