Personal Narrative: The Other You

Eventually causing a person to only believe what they are told they no longer see what they want to see in the mirror but they now see how others see them, which in this case in a negative way to perceive one’s

From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as

Find yourself a mirror while I continue. ”(Zusak 306).

As the mirror views the empty room, the woman meditates on the wall across that is so familiar, due to remaining in the same place for too long, that she describes it as “part of my heart” (Plath, 1961). The woman has been through the uneventful years and sees her reflection as an old woman growing older who has “drowned a young girl in the mirror” (Plath, 1961). As each, the narrator and the woman in “Mirror”, have been trapped in themselves, the main stage they encounter is a disillusionment of

Alice Kang Ms. Georgi Writing 9 / 3 December 11, 2015 Picture that you wake up every day by thinking you are ugly. Whenever you stand in front of a mirror, you will throw up from looking at yourself. Can such imaginations become reality? It can.

Melinda started to remove or cover any mirror she could. “The first thing to go is the mirror. It is screwed to the wall, so I cover it with a poster of Maya Angelou that the librarian gave me.” (50). Melinda was too disgusted to face herself.

So I decided to stop looking altogether. I wish I was exaggerating when I say this; I didn’t look in a mirror for a year and a half. Not once. I don’t know exactly what pulled the last straw for me, but I just stopped one morning.

I just wanted to go back where I was the prettiest of them all. I asked the mirror, “ Magic mirror where is she, the seven dwarfs cottage is the key.” Meanwhile, the dwarfs saw how a mess there cottage was they were mad and wanted to find who did this. When the dwarves went upstairs they saw how beautiful she was and let her stay. The dwarfs left everyday during the day and they warned her not to open the door.

When looking in a mirror, you expect to see yourself, right? Whether it is an angry or happy or neutral version of yourself, it is still you. The only real difference you would probably expect to see is that of your image being flipped or something relatively new on your person. Seeing a complete stranger looking back at you is something most people would expect to see in a horror movie. In The Bell Jar though, Sylvia Plath has her main character, Esther, go through this exact situation several times.

Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall Therapists often face many ethical dilemmas in their therapeutic relationships with their clients. Countertransference is one ethical dilemma that is seen quite often in therapy and often goes unnoticed until the therapist becomes aware of this feeling. Countertransference is caused when the therapist begins to involve their own projections and feelings toward their client, or their clients ' situation that may potentially distort the way they perceive and react to their client in therapy (Corey, Corey, & Callanan, 2015, p.49). This sort of conflict often happens when the therapist begins to lose objectivity towards the client, causing their emotional reactions to become more intensified during therapy. These

One Message It was a normal evening, just got home from baseball. When I feel a long vibration coming from my pocket. Assuming it’s my phone, I whip it out and look at the screen. . . I turned into a ghost.

I no longer have a mirror. I soon grew tired of my blunt eyebrows, the freckles that only darkened my olive skin. My hands are spotted with blood under the gloves, a tomahawk secured in my sheath and a rifle over my shoulder. I didn't forget to shower the night before, but the chill chapped my lips as it was.

Emily Press Language Arts October 10, 2014 Room After many years of arduous work, I have never been given the respect I deserve. Humans just call me “the mirror” instead of a decent name. I have spent years silently creating more reflections than I can count, which is exactly what I am doing now. The micro teacup potbelly pig named Hamlet shakes the glossy wood floor with each step he takes.

“The youth Narcissus mistook his own reflection in the water for another person. This extension of himself by mirror numbed his perceptions until he became the servomechanism of his own extended

The mirror