Alice Walker as a Victim?

In reading othe people's blog form our writing class, I noticed how a number of people referred to Alice Walker as a victim. I believe I first read it in Daniell's blog where she said that Alice Walker went through a complete transformation from a cute, likeable girl to "the girl with the scarred eye." This is interesting because it does change Alice complexion and personal appearence but I do not feel that she saw herself as a victim. She writes her piece to make it appear to us the reader that she is the victim but in her eyes, it is just a phase in her life. This concept is very interesting because it makes us all think what we would have done and how we would have felt had we ever been in a similar situation. How often do we actually think of ourselves as victims versus how many times we want ourselves to made out as victims to other people. It is an interesting question that I did not happen open immediately in my reading but looking back at other peoples responses and seeing it worded that way is interesting. The reader can see that Alice wanted to make herself seen not as a victim but as a normal person but it was inevitable that the people around her saw her as someone different and someone who should be pities. Alice never wanted pity from anyone and yet she recieved it from her peers. Again, the idea of sympathy that I talked about in my first blog is brought up again because the people around Alice had sympathy for her which she never wanted. I guess you can say that people, like eyes, "are sympathetic," too.