PERSUASIVE ESSAY

How it feels to be Colored Me

How it feels to be Colored Me

The first couple of lines of the story' How it feels to be Colored me' by Zora Neale Hurston is the essence of the story, “I am colored, but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.”

She grew up in an environment, which was surrounded by discrimination. The first two lines of the story mean that she lives in a world that discriminates ...