Pretty/ beautiful

Today in class when we were talking about "pretty" I found this passage on page 19 that really grabbed my attention: "Today is a day Ama is beautiful, but a person has to look for it. If she was a flower, she'd be one of those hard-living ones that hang on the earth for dear life and have tiny blooms a person can barely see, but they are there." I think Ama is a beautiful person not on the outside but on the inside. One may not be able to see it just by looking at her but it penetrates from her- it is infectious. She is beautiful for reasons that lie deep within her: her fearlessness and courage. These are words Omishto uses to describe her and they help to shape the beautiful person she sees. She is not a perfect flower that grows tall and strong but she carries herself this way anyways. She acted like she was a flower with full blooms that everyone adored-- the confidence she had in herself allowed her to look past superficial looks and know that she was royalty because she felt like royalty.