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One Friday Morning by Langston Hughes is very similar to How it Feels to be Coldered Me by Zora Neale Houston because the main characters feel discriminated at first, but realized that they shouldnt worry about it. Zora says, "Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. ". She doesnt feel the need to get mad over what other people think. Nancy Lee in One Friday Morning is upset at first but realizes she doesnt need to be. "​One hand went to the heart, the other outstretched toward the flag. Three thousand voices spoke. Among them was the voice of a dark girl whose cheeks were suddenly wet with tears, "...one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." "That is the land we must make," she thought." She knows that she can make a change and diesnt need to worry about what other people think. They csn both change lives and be themselves.

"How It Feels to Be Colored Me" by Zora Neale Hurston is about Hurston's experience with being African American and how it can affect your life. Hurston writes; "At certain times I have no race, I am me." She knows that when people treat her like any other person, black or white, they are looking at her as a person. They are not judging her appearance, they are looking at her personality. A similar concept is written in "One Friday Morning" by Langston Hughes, Hughes creates a character that is nearly perfect as well as African American. The main character, Nancy Lee, is almost never judged by the pigment of her skin because she is a kind, caring and hard working person.

In Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech "I Have A Dream", he describes a dream that even today is inspiring. He describes a dream where his children "will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." The description of his dream, of people living in equality reminds me much of the dream that Mrs. O'Shay describes in "One Friday Morning", a dream of a world where students receive awards and scholarships no matter the color of their skin. As Mrs. O'Shay says, "We still have in this world of ours democracy to make. You and I, Nancy Lee. But the premise and the base are here, the lines of the Declaration of Independence and the words of Lincoln are here, and the stars in our flag."

Zora Neale Hurston wrote a short story called "How It Feels to Be Me" where she talked about some of the experiences she had during her life in Eatonville, Florida. In the book she talks about how Eatonville is an all African American town and how most people would be afraid of the white people from the north. Her is how Zora thought of them, "They liked to hear me "speak pieces" and sing and wanted to see me dance the parse-me-la, and gave me generously of their small silver for doing these things, which seemed strange to me for I wanted to do them so much that I needed bribing to stop, only they didn't know it." As she said in the quote the northerners wanted to hear and see Zora do all these wonderful things for them. She was not judged on the color of her skin but by the wonderful skills she possessed. In "One Friday Morning" by Langston Hughes he displays Nancy Lee as not a colored person but rather like the same as Zora. Langston did this with just a little twist of the book by Zora though. He showed this by making her classmates like Nancy Lee for her artwork and personality. here is an example of what Hughes wrote, "Nancy Lee Johnson was a colored girl, a few years out of the South. But seldom did her high-school classmates think of her as colored. She was smart, pretty and brown, and fitted in well with the life of the school." As you can see, Langston chose that Nancy fit because of her nice personality and talents.

The essay one Friday morning shows a great resemblance to Claude McKay's poem America. They both portray America in the sense that it does not like them very much but all the whole they love it. They love how the hate field them and in his own words challenges his youth, it makes them stronger and more resilient to stand up to the hate. They feel like they may be different now but eventually they will rise up and become one with them. Nancy Lee feels the same way, she may have just gotten an award taken from her for the color of her skin but she knows that they think she is good, they may not react to it but some people respect her and that's all it takes, what she wants to do is use the hate as fuel to someday in the future make a life for the African american citizens of america.

~cat and kayla We think the last lines " Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!" Mean that your death should mean something. 1. 14 lines 2 last lines ryme 310 syallbles in every line 4 rhyme couplets 5 change of thought

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