My mother never wants me to get perm. It was a struggle loving something that I didn’t know how to take care of. My hair Play a major part for me growing up. I was bully, I felt outcast, and I didn’t feel beautiful. Why us black women scared to embrace our natural hair? Is it because we want to avoid the shame, pain, and discomfort of our beautiful locs. In the Apogee Journal, there is a short story called “When they ask about my hair” by Charnell Peters. The author uses flashback and Dialogue to describe her hair journey throughout her childhood and adult years. Not every woman is strong enough to embrace their natural roots. Peters argues that some of us are just scared of what others think of how we look. The short story prescribes that …show more content…
My friends in the boat swat at the hair that flips across their faces and into the drag of the wind. I don’t need to shake my head to clear my sightline or hold back anything to see. I see everything”. (Page 21, Section IV)

Peters finally embracing her beautiful locs, and she doesn’t care what others think about her fro. There comes a point in time, when people opinion shouldn’t matter, and you should never hold back to embrace it. Yes, it will take a while to settle in something that you may not comfortable with, but if peters can do it, we all can. A hair journey is not just a regimen, it a journey of how the individual progressing and the struggles of what she had to go through in her journey of being natural. Peters hair journey was amazing. She uses Dialogue and flashback to talk about her journey being natural. Numerous quotes I can relate to, and I’m sure other women’s can relate too. Peters shows us her struggle that she had went through, yet she overcome her obstacles. Something that I did took away from her story is never worry about what others think, and you don’t have to answer to anyone who don’t want to be educated of something that is unique and