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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