A. Read the excerpt for Zora Neale Hurston’s “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” at the bottom of the page in which she compares herself to a “brown bag of miscellany” (1062).
B. Write a paragraph or make a list of the things that might be found in your bag of miscellany—the things that make up “you” as a person and that define who you are. (two to three pages)
C. If your bag were to be poured out as Hurston suggests, do you think there would be many commonalities with all the other bags on Earth, or do you believe your bag is unique? Explain your position in a paragraph.
Hint: the essay is about me assume I am a collage a student caring a bag, within the bag i have different items from laptop to a small things important for class…….
Zora Neale Hurston, in the last paragraph of “How It Feels to Be Colored Me,” writes: But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red, and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small, things priceless and worthless. A first-water diamond, an empty spool, bits of broken glass, lengths of string, a key to a door long since crumbled away, a rusty knife-blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be, a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two still a little fragrant. In your hand is the brown bag. On the ground before you is the jumble it held—so much like the jumble in the bags could they be emptied that all might be dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place— who knows? (1062).
