Zora Neale Hurston's How It Feels To Be Colored Me

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Throughout Zora Neale Hurston’s essay “How It Feels to be Colored Me”, Hurston’s writing portrays a light and optimistic tone while using various metaphors to convey the essay’s theme that, “…the world belongs to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less” (Hurston). At thirteen, Hurston moved from the exclusively colored community of Eatonville, Florida that she had grown up in to Jacksonville, Florida. It was then that Hurston realize she was no longer seen as “Zora of Orange County” by others, but instead was seen as “a little colored girl” and was looked upon as different and alienated because of this. But I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes… Even