How It Feels To Be Colored Me
According to Hurston, how does her white male companion respond to the music that has affected her so deeply?
"Good music they have here," he remarks, drumming the table with his fingertips."
Hurston employs another metaphor to evaluate the effects of slavery ("sixty years in the past") on her life. What is that metaphor?
"The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you."
Hurston interprets her move from Eatonville to Jacksonville as a personal transformation: from "Zora of Orange County" to
A little colored girl.
Where was Zora Neale Hurston born?
Alabama on January 7, 1891
What university did Hurston attend in the 20's?
Bernard
In the final paragraph of the essay, Hurston compares herself to
Brown bag
Hurston recalls that when greeting travelers as a child her "favorite place" to perch was atop
Gatepost
Hurston employs a metaphor to demonstrate that she does not accept the self-pitying role of a victim. What is that metaphor?
I am too busy sharpening mu oyster knife.
When Hurston recalls sitting in The New World Cabaret, she introduces the metaphor of a wild animal, which "rears on its hind legs and attacks the tonal veil with primitive fury, rending it, clawing it until it breaks through to the jungle beyond." What is she describing with this metaphor?
Jazz orchestra
According to Hurston, white people would pass through Eatonville on their way to or from what large Florida city?
Orlando
Toward the end of the essay, Hurston refers to Peggy Hopkins Joyce, an American actress known in the 1920s for her lavish lifestyle and scandalous affairs. In comparison to Joyce, Hurston says that she herself is
The cosmic Zora emerges. I belong to no race nor time. I am eternal feminine with its string of beads.
Hurston reports that she "lived in the little town of Eatonville, Florida" until she was how old?
Thirteenth year
What did she feel when she was discriminated?
confused, surprised, aware of her skin color
When Hurston was discriminated, did she feel angry?
no
what is the overall tone of the essay?
positive
When Hurston performed for tourists, why did she do it?
she enjoyed it
What does "busy sharpening oyster knife" mean?
she is looking for the best life has to offer
Hurston felt that being the grandsaughter of slaves... means
that she has nothing to lose by continuing what she is doing
What was the main purpose of it?
the explain how good she feels about herself, regardless of her color
the reason whites don't appreciate jazz music is because...
they don't feel it inside themselves
When did she become colored?
when she moved to a place where there weren't many AA
