Title: How It Feels To Be Colored Me Summary and Analysis | LitPriest
Headings: How It Feels To Be Colored Me
How It Feels To Be Colored Me
Background of the Essay
Contents
How It Feels To Be Colored Me Summary
How It Feels To Be Colored Me Characters Analysis
Zora Hurston
Enlightened Zora
Floridian white folks
Black people
Themes in How It Feels To Be Colored Me
Pride in African-American Heritage
Judgement and Prejudice
Identity and Race
Abandonment of Racism
Denial of Pain
Celebration of the (black) Self (Negritude)
History and Opportunity
Performance
How It Feels To Be Colored Me Literary Analysis
Interpretation of Title
Acceptance of Racial Identity
Biblical Allusion and Cultural & Historical Associations
Childhood as a True Color
Journey from Nora to a Colored Girl
Racial Bullying during Childhood
Vernacular Jazz Dance: A Key to Self Realization
Transformation from Zora to Cosmic Zora
Conclusion

Content: She realizes a gap between them and “He is so pale with his whiteness then and I am so colored.” Hurston does not find conflict between her Americanness and Darkness. She considers herself as part of the country. She sees discrimination with surprise and not with rancor. Besides everything, Hurston compares herself with a sack filled with bits and bobs and that she is just a sack among sacks of various colors. Each sack contains both marvelous and ordinary things from diamond to broken glass pieces. If someone dumps her out in a big pile, there would be many priceless bags. They can be exchanged but stuffing will remain similar. She muses rhetorically that the Great Stuffer (God) might have stuffed them at first place just like that. How It Feels To Be Colored Me Characters Analysis
Zora Hurston
The author paints herself in the essay as a character and gives an account of different shades of her life.