Blue Monologue

Imagine a world with no love, no color pain no choices and no color. I just described Jonas’s world and I’ll be comparing our world to his. There's tons of differences but I’ll only be focusing on a few.

In the essay, “How it Feels to be Colored Me” written by Zora Hurston, there are many struggles she went through because of being single storied and discriminated against for her race. Throughout her essay, Hurston’s view is from how others look at her on the outside and not what they see on the inside. Though she is different from the status quo of beautiful, Hurston argues that despite the single story by which others define people, they can choose to express their individual by focusing on moments that empower them.

So he took his paint in all kinds of colors and skipped outside to the meadow. He sat down and arranged his paints in order of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. He then painted the roses red, tiger lilies orange, violets dark blue, and pansies every color imaginable. He hummed as he painted away. Overhead Nanabozho saw two little blue birds playing and chasing each other back and forth. Occasionally he would look up to see the birds continuing to play around. The two birds decided to see how fast they could dive down to the green fields under them. The first bird sailed down and down as fast as it could then pulled himself up right before smacking on the ground. As the bird soared past Nanabozho, his right wing dipped into his red paint. When the second bird dove down his wing grazed the orange paint. Nanabozho scolded the two birds, but they kept up their little game of diving down and flying back into the sky. Soon they were completely drenched in all different colors of paint. Finally Nanabozho had enough and waved his arms to shoo the birds away, but the birds came back toward his paint looking for a new game to play they then flew to the waterfall beside Nanabozho’s house. The first bird flew through the misty spray of the waterfall and in the process left a red

In addition, a point of view and characteristic passage from Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me

Birds are also major symbolic images in the story. Flight, which is associated with birds, acts as a stand-in for awakening. The ability to spread your wings and fly is a symbolic theme that occurs often in the novel. Mademoiselle Reisz tells Edna "the bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings” (138). She uses birds to forecast Edna's future and evaluate Edna's strength. In order to soar like a bird, Edna must be strong, but Mademoiselle Reisz realizes that Edna is weak. Reisz says, "it is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth" (138). Mademoiselle Reisz understands that Edna is not like herself and cannot fight society. Later, when Edna realizes the hopelessness of her situation, birds, once again, symbolically foreshadow her fate. Upon reaching the beach on her final walk, Edna looks around and sees: "A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled down, down to the water" (189). This bird is the final omen that reflects Mademoiselle Reisz's words: "it is sad to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth" (138). The bird, disabled and weakened because of its broken wing, falls back to earth and suffers defeat. Edna soon does the same when she kills herself because she does not have "the

I used to see this world like a sea of different colours, each one as pure as the next but thats what all children think. Is that the world we live has no such thing as evil; that there aren’t such things as always being happy and optimist but that there are times that we all just stay in be all day. I used to be that way too but colours such as grey and black started to drift though my mind.

In Alice Walker’s, “The Color Purple,” the concept of one’s journey to spiritual awakening is presented by the transformative nature of man and points out that the circumstances an individual is placed in along with the dynamics of one’s interactions with others are what shapes their identity . The reader is able to understand the conflicting forces that work to the advantage and disadvantage of man and relate them to the occurrences that happen in modern society. In the case of the narrator of the story, her surroundings are what prevent her from achieving her mental and emotional maturation. Although with the progression of the novel, narrator, Celie, is allowed to understand how she fits into the society she’s apart of through her experiences

“How It Feels to Be Colored Me” is a narrative essay by Zora Neale Hurston that recounts her experience of having her identity being drastically shifted from her personal self to a nameless colored girl living in a predominantly white society. Hurston uses descriptive language, metaphors, and symbols to help the reader empathize with her experience rather than simply understand it at a factual level. The narrative structure and emotional-perspective style Hurston uses makes the events easy to follow. The following is an in-depth analysis of the literary elements Hurston uses in this piece.

Like Rachel, who sees in colouredness a woman’s “joy of birth” (and not shame), Sally sees in the “neglected knot” of colouredness “the beauty of being coloured, that we need not worry about roots at all” (27).2

One summer morning, Jesse and Mitch--brother and sister--decided to enjoy an afternoon under the cooling shade of the Halifax Public Gardens. “Mitch,” exclaimed Jesse, “let’s go look at the bandstand, man!” Jesse is extremely tired from working long hours, attending summer school, and studying for the GRE (Graduate Record Examination). Furthermore, she genuinely wants to relax and savour the radiant, balmy day. They each bought a large ice cream, at the concession stand, and sat down on the benches near the fountain. “Just think of how many musicians have performed here over the years,” she mused.

Pink. Purple. Blue. How on earth did these three colours, I wondered, come to mean so much to me? Blue. Purple. Pink. I cheered as they came into my view, palms sweaty and fingers beginning to cramp as I vigorously waved my flag, an enthusiastic member of the sea of rainbow that surrounded me. Seeing those colours flying so loudly in procession, with such pride and determination, set my racing mind at peace. Finally, a place where my identity was not synonymous with “confused”, a place where I could fully express myself without fear of judgement or being laughed at. In that moment, watching as the vibrant parade twisted its way through the overcrowded Toronto streets, carrying with it the unique power to make all judgement disappear, I think

The blue bird. The last thing I saw on earth, the bird which brought me home.

We open with a close-up of Birdy’s feet hurrying through the green grass. Next we see him splash in to a very dirty puddle in the middle of a beautiful green field. The only visible thing up of the fetid green water is his head . His face is extremely happy, regardless of the viewer’s instinctive first reaction.

In Alice Walker’s story “Am I Blue”, the author illustrates the suffering animals go through, and compares it to how similar their suffering is to the suffering people are facing and have faced in the past. Walker begins by describing where she and her husband had been staying in the countryside. It was when she first moved in that she saw Blue, the horse of a neighbor, and uses vivid imagery to describe such. Not only of Blue, but to show the countless Walker has spent with Blue. The author then reminisces her childhood memories of horses. Next, the author claims to know of the feelings of Blue’s loneliness through his expression and is astounded by the communication the two of them had. Walker then goes on to talk about white people being racist despite being cared for by black people at an early age. After duly noting the comparison of First Nations people to animals by colonists, Walker then remarks about the lack of communication between English men and Asian women when they are happy, until the women spoke English and the marriage breaks down. Afterwards, the author describes how happy Blue was when he had a companion. Until the companion was gone, because the other horse had only been put there so she could conceive a baby horse. Then Walker describes how sad Blue became with her vivid imagery of Blue’s behavior, and expresses her anger of Blue’s mistreatment through analogies of prejudices of women and black people. The author concludes by expressing the lack of

When reading Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” and “Everyday Use,” it is evident that she writes about her life through her use of allegory. Alice Walker uses the events of her childhood, her observation of the patriarchy in African American culture, and her rebellion against the society she lived in to recount her life through her stories. Alice Walker grew up in a loving household in the years towards the end of the Great Depression. Although her family was poor, they were rich in kindness and perspective and taught Walker a lot about her heritage and life.