“How It Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston was published in the journal World Tomorrow and was read mostly by the white people “who were already sympathetic to civil rights for African American” (Hurston, 138). Hurston describes her own experience of racial segregation by using figurative language to give more realistic images in order to show readers how proud she is for being herself despite how other people look at her.
Throughout the story, Hurston has never mentioned other black people descriptively. She presents ethos through her own experience, and her own feelings. Her personal story would then allow her to present pathos letting the readers be in her shoes and understand her. Hurston has many times keep on reminding the readers that she was not angry for how people act toward her. She wants to prove her point that there is nothing to feel embarrassed at or humiliated about for being who they are regardless of skin color. First, she clearly states that she is colored, but “offer nothing in the …show more content…
Repetition is also being used to draw attention of readers. When hearing the word “slavery,” it might instantly remind readers of something that has to do with colored skin people. In paragraph seventh, Hurston repeats the word “slaves” for several times as if she wants to emphasize to the readers that even though she is a granddaughter of slaves, she does not feel ashamed about it and it doesn’t consider who she is as a person as she claims “it fails to register depression with me” (Hurston, 140). Moreover, Hurston does not blame anyone, especially her ancestors whom gave her these “troubles”, but instead she accepts it calmly as that is the fact that everyone has to face. She also repeats the word “me” whenever she talks about her real person because she wants other people to accept her for who she is and does not want people to sympathize her just because of her
Throughout the story, Hurston has never mentioned other black people descriptively. She presents ethos through her own experience, and her own feelings. Her personal story would then allow her to present pathos letting the readers be in her shoes and understand her. Hurston has many times keep on reminding the readers that she was not angry for how people act toward her. She wants to prove her point that there is nothing to feel embarrassed at or humiliated about for being who they are regardless of skin color. First, she clearly states that she is colored, but “offer nothing in the …show more content…
Repetition is also being used to draw attention of readers. When hearing the word “slavery,” it might instantly remind readers of something that has to do with colored skin people. In paragraph seventh, Hurston repeats the word “slaves” for several times as if she wants to emphasize to the readers that even though she is a granddaughter of slaves, she does not feel ashamed about it and it doesn’t consider who she is as a person as she claims “it fails to register depression with me” (Hurston, 140). Moreover, Hurston does not blame anyone, especially her ancestors whom gave her these “troubles”, but instead she accepts it calmly as that is the fact that everyone has to face. She also repeats the word “me” whenever she talks about her real person because she wants other people to accept her for who she is and does not want people to sympathize her just because of her