Comparative analysis of “” and “The Story of My Body”

Thesis Statement

The paper highlights the societal perceptions towards racism and existence of women as a sex of pleasure, which is brilliantly portrayed by both of the writers in their strategic ways.

Introduction

In the excerpt of "From Fly-Girls to Bitches and Hos" penned down by Joan Morgan and the "The Story of My Body" by Judith Ortiz Cofer portrays two counterpoint conception of both writers that how personality and identity shows the beautiful picture of woman. The aim of the writers is to explain the role of inner and external beauty of the woman that means to society and their perceptions regarding it. Appearance is the initial symbol of distinctiveness that a person show, but it does not totally shows the inner conflict of a woman. The stories of both tales also describe the prejudice towards certain race and color. The use of different elements in the essays is strategically used to provoke the reader's notion against the cruelty of modern world, which is deeply drowned under the external beauty or the world and ignore humanism.

Comparative Analysis

In both of the essays, the authors potentially put forward their stories for the awareness of the reader that where the world is going and degrading different human races. Most of the people judged by their appearance and other people draft their perceptions for them, instead of their personality. In the account of "The Story of My Body", it shows the contradictory mindset about our body and identity, but reality does not rely only on this phenomenon even it reflects the prejudice development in people's mind. This notion is portrayed in both of the stories by showing different disciplines. In “From Fly-Girls to Bitches and Hos”, author depicts the wrong conception about racism and degradation of women by their appearance tooled by Hip hop and Rap music. On other hand, in the story of Cofer, she portrays the value of appearance in the example of scars left by chicken pox, which becomes the ultimate reason of degrading woman beauty. The strategy behind the chicken pox can be assumed, as the writer wanted to mention that when an individual encounter such happening in his or her own life, then he truly understand about the pain of others that somehow he did with someone else. In this way, the author makes us realize about the bitter reality and fact, which can happen to anyone in the world.

The depiction of body in the essay hides the core information under it, as this is the strategy of the writer to explain how the body of the women is considered in the society. Cofer proposes through her story that our body functions as a significant part in our social life. Dissimilarities in color, race and range may produce many uneasy situations in our adolescence. The author defines the ordeal of her body and other worse experiences she had in her life. The fundamental view emphasizes over the isolation that many children endure based ...