How It Feels to Be Colored Me analysis

In How It Feels to Be Colored Me, the author Zora Neale Hurston describes a change in her life. Hurston describes how she experienced a loss of innocence when she was revealed to the real world, a world where her color was not as accepted as she would hope. Zora Neale Hurston was a woman of color committed to making a change in the world for the benefit of her race and culture. She was a civil rights activist who wrote many different works of empowering words promoting civil rights. Through the depiction of her childhood, Hurston was able to describe the purpose of her essay. She writes of how she feels as if she sticks out or she does not belong. Although, at the very end of the essay, she compares people of different races to different colored bags. Once all of the contents of the bag are removed, mixed around in a heap on the floor, and randomly put back into the bags, the new contents would not be very far off from the original ones. Hurston suggests that the “Great Stuffer of Bags”, or the creator, intended for the world to be this way. This was an analogy that made her purpose stand out; everyone was created as equals. Her rhetorical strategies, including comparisons, imagery and figurative language, help guide the readers towards her purpose. Her audience is very general. She mentions people of her culture and people of other cultures, yet does not make them her intended audience. Hurston makes it clear that her audience is no one in particular, rather anyone who cares to hear what she has to say. This essay grabs the reader’s attention and gives them comparisons and analogies that make them not only question themselves and the author, but make them question the past.

Everyone is Created Equal

The creator intended on making a world full of equals, everyone is not so different after all.

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The Marginal World analysis

The Marginal World, by Rachel Carson, is written about the sea and how it is a whole separate world, yet it manages to evolve and thrive within the hectic world around it. Rachel Carson, a marine biologist and writer, is a naturalist and author credited for her creative way of sharing the beautiful stories of the sea with the public. Carson uses imagery and figurative language to describe the beauty she saw within the sea. She tells of plant and animal life, hidden shelters and unique tendencies of aquatic animals living in a world unseen; the sea. Carson uses the sea and compares it to the life of an average human. This gives her essay a strong sense of purpose; life is not all that it seems and point of view changes the way one looks at the world. Carson describes the calm of the sea, how the development of aquatic life and the evolving sea world sometimes go unnoticed when the human world is always distracted. She uses this description to tell the audience that there is always a calm, a solution, or a haven within each obstacle in life. Carson does not target a particular audience, yet she does connect more with people who have gone through obstacles in their life, people who have been caught up in the hustle and bustle of living. The imagery and figurative language help to give Carson’s writing a certain style and rhetoric. The way she describes the sea gives the reader a view into what seems like a world far away. Yet she continues to use her rhetoric to connect this far away world to the world of every human on planet Earth. Carson was successful in achieving her purpose. Her comparison of tense to calm and ocean life to the real world gave the reader a new perspective on life, showing that it is not all that it seems.

A Cave in the Sea

The hustle and bustle of the real world continues as the calm life under the sea goes unnoticed.

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Once More to the Lake analysis

In Once More to the Lake, by E.B White, the author describes a conflict that arises within himself when he takes his son to the lake in which he travelled to as a child. White begins to develop an identity crisis, not knowing if he still lives in the past as a child or if he is living in the present, as the father of his own son. E.B White, an attendee of Cornell University and an editor and writer of The New Yorker, was famous for his Pulitzer Prize winning books. White is a renowned author of not only children and adult stories, but essays, much like Once More to the Lake. E.B White describes the setting of the lake, combining his past adventures with his father and the present adventures with his son. He begins to get caught in between the past and present and becomes confused as to what his own identity is. Through the way E.B White becomes confused, you are able to see his growth within the essay. White’s confusion shows that his sense of time is distorted, making him go back and forth with the memories he made years ago to the memories he is making now. The idea of him taking the place of his father creates the sense of a cycle and gives the essay a purpose; the cycle of life is one White is beginning to come fully around. He is beginning to realize he is coming closer to death. The audience White intends on reaching is people who are at the same point of the cycle he describes, people who are beginning to realize their past is no longer close and their future holds only a limited amount of time. The rhetorical device of imagery is used to bring about the purpose. The description of the lake in the past and the author’s past adventures help the audience compare it to the present adventures the author is taking with his son. Through the use of this rhetorical device, the author linked the past and present and successfully communicated his purpose.

Father and Son Return to the Lake

E.B White is stuck between the past and the present as he continues through the cycle of life and comes closer to mortality.

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