Thursday, February 12, 2009

50 essays" How it feels to be colored me"

1. The point that Zora Neale Hurston is trying to make is that she had believed that her situation was the same as everybody else's. Being mixed with Black and White and Indian. She did not realize that she was different until she had turned thirteen.

2. Hurston uses imaginative moments to make her points by creating a contrast between the white man and her while they were in the jazz club. She imagined herself as a warrior in the jungle and feeling , not just hearing or listening, to the music. Through the use of detail, she allows the audience, also, to feel the excitement and liberation she was feeling while the music was playing. However, the white man was calm and acted as though they were not listening to the same music at the same location. Therefore, adding to her realization of being different.

3. Ms. Brown uhhhh.. I don't know understand the question .

4. Zora Neale Hurston's perception of race is a wonder of we are all diferent and we all come with our baggage, it is just a matter of whether or not we will be able to combine our "junk" and become one big "pile of junk". Being able to come together and coexist. I believe race as being something that classifies people according to the color of their skin, ignoring the fact that we are all human. Once we leave and step out of those classes and and we are forced to interact with other people, there is a question of whether we will be able to collaborate in a peaceful manner instead of being cold to each other and unaccepting.

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