“How it Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Hurston has a very hopeful and cheerful tone to it. In one part of the essay, Hurston claims that she is not “tragically colored”. Showing that just because she was born with a certain skin tone does not mean she cannot amount to what she believes in. Her tone gives off an enthusiastic vibe, she grew up in an all black community and never has seen much of the outside world and suddenly she gets to move to the big city and make her dreams come true. In the essay, she discovers the pride she has in her work and who she is as an author. With this, she still has struggles because of her skin color but because of her cheerful tone she continues to proceed. She uses a lot of imagery to show these emotions.
