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Ursula Hegis’ “Through the dance of her hands” presents Hannelore Beier, the pastors sister, who’s full of potential and great talent decides voluntarily to join the town and use her gifts to waste. Alienated and disfigured, no one realizes what she is truly capable of, yet she feels an invisible set of bars around her, constraining her from life’s splendors. In the story “Through the dance of her hands” Ursual Hegi believes that one should live exciting lives rather than being captivated in a world which one dislikes. Although Hannelore was committed to her work, she often tried to escape reality through a myriad of ways. She preferred her old books bound in green or red leather over the Bible because it created a different, more exciting world and she read “her face dissolved and her sight body seemed to grow….”(103) and as she read on with enthusiasm, she “made them breathe as if they were being written now.”(103) She made the children feel her pain through the story of the panther when “her voice evoked the powerful animal pacing behind the bars of his cage.�