The Body of the Beholder

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The Body of the Beholder

• By Michele Ingrassia

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The Body of the Beholder

• Tyra Banks

• Queen Latifah

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The Body of the Beholder

• Kate Moss

• Claudia Shiffer

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Building vocabulary

• A. Loss of appetite, especially as a result of
  disease
• B. An eating disorder common among young women of
  normal or nearly normal weight that is
  characterized by uncontrolled binge eating
  followed by guilt
• To preoccupy the mind excessively

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Understanding the writers ideas

• 1. Adolescent girls generally dissect their
  physical flaws so that many are uncomfortable
  when gym class forces them to wear revealing
  clothes.
• 2. Seventy percent of African-American girls were
  satisfied with their bodies and 90 percent of
  white girls were dissatisfied.

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Understanding the writers ideas

• 3. Black girls saw their mothers getting more
  beautiful with age, whereas white girls felt
  their mothers were only beautiful in their youth.
• 4. Whereas white teens saw Kate Mosss
  measurements as perfection, black teens thought
  beauty was having the right attitude as well as
  full hips and thick thighs.

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Understanding the writers ideas

• 5. White twenty-something TV actresses in hit
  shows like Friends are reed thin, whereas black
  shows depict women looking sizable.
• 6. Two hundred years of cultural differences. The
  white middle-class dream of making it as being
  able to make yourself over. But in the black
  community, there is the reality of not making it
  easily.

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Understanding the writers ideas

• 7. They are seen as healthy and fertile. This may
  be attributable in part to decades of preaching
  black is beautiful.
• 8. White girls diet more and have higher rates of
  eating disorders than black girls.
• 9. An editor of a black womens magazine feels
  that black girls should be careful to balance
  weight gain and healthy eating.

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Understanding the writers techniques

• 1. In par. 2, the idea of how black and white
  girls view their bodies makes it clear that the
  entire essay will shift between comparing the two
  groups. And it does!
• 2. Students should note that the writer
  constantly switches between the two groups in an
  all A/all B paragraph style.

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Understanding the writers techniques

• 3. By ordering the statistics in terms of
  comparison.
• 4. Very little is made of men until par. 8. But
  that is the only reference. This essay seems
  targeted for women.
• 5. The writer uses a question as transition to
  shift the essays focus to a new direction.

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Understanding the writers techniques

• 6. Every paragraph has a topic sentence (TS),
  including par. 4. A question can imply a TS.
• 7. The last sentence of the conclusion actually
  brings the two subjects together in this way
  Maybe thats where Queen Latifah meets Kate
  Moss. The final point is asking black and white
  teenage girls not to got an extreme of heavy or
  thin.

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Reference

• Medical dictionary med
• Eating disorder The Facts of Eating Disorders
  and Self eatingdisorders
• Anorexia Anorexia nervosa from anguish to
  elation