I must admit, I thought she was all over the place in this writing and I found it difficult to follow the first time through. After reading it the second time I was more capable of pointing out the parts of the story.
What does this essays first sentence mean? Why does Hurston use the phrase "extenuating circumstances"? Is she serrious about her non "Indian" heritage?
1. She explains that she is colored, and latter that she comes from a Black only town in Southern Florida. Meaning that there were no natives or white Americans around, except for the occasional tourist.
2. She uses this phrase because in the story she leads you to think she never really dealt with a lot of segregation. Due mainly because once again, she comes from a mainly black community. Extenuating cirrcumstances is used in a way to notify the reader that she didn't have a normal pre segregated society upbringing as a black American.
3. I would think she is. She never mentions it again in her story.
Hi Kyle,
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your honesty. Sometimes in order to understand something, we have to read it, reread it and finally reread it.