How it feels to be colored me’ is a descriptive essay which was written by Zora Neale Hurston is an amazing journey through her childhood. She throughout her writing uses a conversational tone which suggests she talks to all of us and shows us different phases of her childhood. Her childhood at Eatonville, Florida and how her front porch spot was her favorite, is something we can figure out when we read the essay. She also uses a nostalgic tone where she feels she is actually in the past. There is
their literature. Similarities or techniques noticeable within many famous authors literature, Zora Neale Hurston is no exception to this. Hurston like many authors lets her life impact her writing in a way that such themes of gender roles and social class within society are constantly found showing up in her writing and are needed to get a greater understanding of what is there to be discovered. Hurston
alienation depicted in the short stories “How it Feels to be Colored Me,” “A Rose for Emily,” and “Hands,” are due to both the characteristics the characters have that ignite the alienation and the forcefulness with which they have been rejected by and from society. In Hurston’s “How it Feels to be Colored Me,” she experiences alienation due to the intersection of her race and gender; society and herself react to these alienations in ways that do not make Hurston remove herself from society. Faulkner’s
Rationale: This written task relates to the story Their Eyes Were Watching God written by Zora Neale Hurston, and in particular, is an interview between a minor character, Lee Coker, and a major character, Joe Starks, about how Joe plans to change the town of Eatonville with his new legislation as mayor. I chose an interview because I felt it could best show how the characters and their ideals have changed throughout the story and I wrote it in a way to further understand the character development