HELP PLS How It Feels To Be Colored By Me, By Zora Neale Hurston

1. Describe the tone of paragraphs 1 and What does Hurston's tone reveal about the way she sees herself?

2. State the main idea of paragraph 6. What criticism is implied by the author's statement?

3. Reread paragraph 7. Consider the lines, "Slavery is the price I paid for civilization, and the choice was not with me. It is a bully adventure and worth all

that I have paid through my ancestors for it." Explain what is unusual about Hurston's tone. What effect might this comment have on an African-American reader? A white reader?

4. Describe the two responses that are contrasted in paragraph 13. What does this contrast imply about the differences between whites and blacks?