Analysis Of How It Feels To Be Colored Me By Zora Neale Hurston

“How it feels to be colored me” is an essay that was written by the author Zora Neale Hurston. In her essay, Hurston was growing up in an exclusively colored town where all black people were living together. However, at the age of thirteen, she moved out to a school in Jacksonville. It was the first time she saw herself as a colored person and began to realize there are differences between whites and blacks. She was confused and aware of her skin color when she was being discriminated against. However, she think it in an optimistic way in which she feels good about herself at the end, regardless of her color. This is well evident when Hurston wrote “I feel discriminated against, sometimes. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company?” Though the author was filled with confusion and depression over the …show more content…
“The contents may be priceless or worthless regardless of the bags.” Hurston uses this metaphor to articulate that no race could be discriminated against as everyone could be the same inside regardless of ethnicity. Moreover, she forces us to consider an important issue which is racism. Throughout her experience, racism discrimination was of a key issue that bothered her during her adolescence as well as many blacks. It is really hurt when discrimination is involved.

Hurston chose to be optimistic and open-minded, but how about the others? I do not think everyone who are being discriminated will have such an open-mind as Hurston. They are feared at the corner of the classroom and ridiculed by others because they have a different skin color. They could not get the best job because someone judge them by their races but not ability. Discrimination and racism are all contributed to the disharmony between people. Therefore, human beings should always share equality of human