Instructions:
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.
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