“ How It Feels to Be Colored Me has a uncontrollable spirit in the face of what are clear inequalities in America, for its dry self-representation, and for the sheer delight it gives to believe that Hurston has triumphed after all. ” -A.L.
“ How It Feels to Be Colored Me ” is about Zora Neale Hurston’s childhood. She portions what it was like turning up in Eatonville, Florida ( an all “ colored ” community ) , and so traveling to Jacksonville when she turned 13 to go to school. As she explains in the narrative, she went from being “ Zora of Orange County ” , to being “ a small colored girl. ” But through all the alteration in her life, nil of all time stopped her free spirit, and strength.
While life in Eatonville the merely true contact that Zora had with white people was when they were go throughing through town. “ White people differed from colored to me merely in that they rode through town and ne’er lived there ” , Hurston explains.
Vitamin E was the lone one make bolding plenty to sit on the forepart porch on her house to recognize the fledglings. She thought of it as her gallery place, and the people go throughing through town were the histrions in her show.
When Zora moved to Jacksonville, she was no longer watching a show. “ But I am non tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my psyche nor lurking behind my eyes. ” Her move to Jacksonville was a immense alteration, but it didn’t alteration her spirit. She explains, “ Slavery is the pick I paid for civilisation, and the pick was non with me ” , yet despite this she ne’er looks behind herself and weeps.
Through the immense alteration in topographic points and civilization, Zora’s spirit and love ne’er changed. Even in Jacksonville where she was merely a “ small colored miss ” she felt that “ at certain times I have no race, I am me. ” Hurston’s freewill and love for life is what kept her traveling through life. It is believed that Hurston had overcome many great obstructions in her life, and in this narrative it proves to be true.
