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    and sexual oppression through the scope of its black female protagonist‚ Janie Brent. Morrison impeccably comments on how black literature‚ especially Hurston’s‚ empowered African-Americans to attain independence‚ and by recovering parts of history to examine the ascension of status of the African American‚ one can elevate themselves humbly as not only a citizen‚ but an African-American citizen. By reintroducing Hurston back in the literary conversation‚ black audience preserve the conflicts faced

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    them in life? In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God she touches on the subject of how women of the 1920s were expected to act. Women of the time period were regarded as their husband’s wife and not as individual people. Women weren’t allowed to speak freely for themselves either. The book is a representation of the ways in which the typical American Dream has profoundly failed the women of the time period. Through her significant use of symbolism‚ Zora Neale Hurston utilises the main

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    Colored Me” Zora Neale Hurston states “I feel like a brown bag… in company with other bags‚ white‚ red‚ and yellow” (Hurston 185-186). Each one of these colors represents a different race‚ brown being African- Americans‚ white being Caucasian‚ red being Indians and yellow being Asians. The wall that they all lean upon is the world in which they live in. She continues to go on and say “Pour out the contents and there is discovered a jumble of small things priceless and worthless” (Hurston 186). These

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    “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” In Zora Neale Hurston`s “How It Feels to Be Colored Me‚” the author expresses how she is proud to be unique. (21) Zora Neale Hurston in “How It Feels to Be Colored Me‚” expresses her strong opinion that she is proud to be an African American and is not “tragically colored” as some suggest. In this short story‚ Zora Neale Hurston expresses her pride in the fact that she is unique‚ and almost a race of her own. In summation‚Hurston believes that her uniqueness should

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    anthropologist”--those are the words that Alice Walker had inscribed on the tombstone of Zora Neale Hurston. In the essay How It Feels to Be Colored Me‚ Zora explores her own sense of identity through a series of striking metaphors. After realizing that she is of color‚ Hurston never really places a significant emphasis on the racial inequalities that exist in America. “At certain times I have no race‚ I am me.” Zora Neale Hurston did not have any separate feelings about being an American and colored. “But

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    Writing Assignment #1 afoster03@bellarmine.edu September 10‚ 2012 How It Feels to Be Colored Me‚ by Zora Hurston In the article How It feels to Be Colored Me‚ Zora Hurston describes her experiences being colored. She lived in a prominently colored town in Florida up until she was thirteen and she lived a great life. Everyone knew her; she was “their” Zora. Then‚ her mother passed away and Hurston was shipped off to boarding school. This‚ she said was the first time she became colored. Now‚ when

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    prejudice coming from both‚ the African American race and the Whites. A quote that supports this assertion is‚ “Ah thought you would ‘preciate good treatment. Thought Ah’d take and make somethin’ outa yuh. You think youse white folks by de way you act‚” (Hurston‚ 30). This is what Janie’s first husband‚ Logan Killicks says to her when she doesn’t do work that is outside the house‚ such as farming. Logan says she acts like a “white folk‚” in the novel and throughout the time period in which the novel takes

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    Zora from Orange County” Zora Hurston‚ author of How It Feels to Be Colored Me‚ takes readers on a journey through her personal experience on racism and self-identity. The beginning of her life takes place in Florida in the 1920s during segregation. Hurston did not know about race until she moved to Jacksonville where there were not many African Americans. Jacksonville‚ is where she learned she had an identity change and knew she was colored. As one piece of evidence‚ Hurston states‚ “I

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    Ap Language & composition December 2‚ 2012 How It Feels To Be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston Hurston refused to be defined by the stereotypes of her time and times long gone. She often pushed the boundaries of what was customarily done‚ thought or expected by people of “color”. Hurston redefines and restructures the reality of being colored by the use of Satire‚ Imagery‚ and Personification. Hurston uses these strategies to lightheartedly yet emphatically refute the misconceptions that

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