In "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self", Alice Walker narrates her own childhood. In the beginning, she is a carefree, "cute", confident and intelligent girl. As time goes by and she is eight years old, her life changes dramatically. She becomes the girl who neither raises her head nor stare at anyone. She becomes self-concious after getting shot in the eye by a BB gun. This causes her to become nervous when people are staring at her eye.
My favorite part of the story is the beginning. That's when Alice is just a 2 year old. The only thing she thinks about is going to the county fair and having fun. She also mentions that her father has beautiful eyes. This is foreshadowing that the story has something to do with eyes. Alice uses a lot of colors in her story. She talks about her "biscuit-polished patent leather shoes and lavender socks".
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You make a nice point about the foreshadowing that she uses there--a successful literary technique that might be something to try in your own writing. You also bring up the fact that she makes a lot of reference to colors here, which is true. The idea of image--of how she looks because of the accident--often causes us to overlook the fact that she is actually blind in that eye, has been for most of her life, so the little details she describes seeing take on added significance, which is highlighted by her poem about the desert.
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