Personal Narrative: My Life As An African American

In the short story by Zora Neale Hurston (glided Six-Bits) the black regular black working class linked into the story. The characters Joe and his wife Missie May are a happily young couple who are married. Their marriage was then messed up by Slemmons a player they met that opened an ice cream shop in there town. Joe and his wife Missie May worked things out with each other because they loved each other. A happy marriage in the working class is seem to be what everyone wants but there is rarely no such thing in real life.

For instance, the Adam’s family does not yet accept the lottery because they think it is no longer necessary for society to function well. While the slips of paper are being pulled, Mrs Adams says “Some places have already quit lotteries.” She did not randomly bring up this point, and was most likely thinking about why she is even doing it. The Adam’s attitude demonstrates that some people no longer want to practice the Lottery, probably because they realize how terrible it

Why couldn’t I just be a Black American?” These were crazy thoughts that went through my mind at such a young age. At my house there are days when my father teaches me, my two brothers, and my sister how to speak Igbo, which is a

My parents did a good job keeping me away from it while I was young. I got older and started to figure out what was taking place. Whites would often call me out and tell me I couldn’t go places, or take part in activities because of the color of my skin. I was often discriminated against going to places like school or boxing. It always disgusted me how problems like this in our own country were not being solved before other problems outside of the

I have never see a kid with so many great mannerisms. Holding the door open for others, saying thank you, and just being very genuine. Sye definitely, “Treats others the way you want to be treated.” In her classroom Sye is willing to help her other classmates and friends when they need it. For Sye’s 8th birthday party, she had a great number of friends join her and never requested to go first on any activities just because it was her

The answers to her prayers came in the form of Tea Cake, a young man twelve years her junior who was a little infamous amongst the townspeople for his mischievous antics. Tea Cake loves Janie genuinely, and doesn’t try to keep her from being who she wants to be. Although he dies before he and Janie are able to spend many years together, marrying him has an effect on Janie that causes her to forget her past grievances, and consider herself as an independent person like she always hoped to be. After Tea Cake, Janie is a free woman in that she is no longer under the oppressive restraints that she once allowed to hold her back from a life she considers worth living. The exploration of gender roles and the plight of women in Hurston’s novel continues to be relevant in today’s world, despite the fact that Their Eyes Were Watching God is now 79 years old.

On pg 19 we see a Miss.Caroline Fisher who is a new teacher in Maycomb, and is clueless to how stuff works around there. She is perplexed when Walter cunningham won't take her quarter to buy lunch. Scout rises up and tells Mrs.Caroline Fisher pg 20 “Miss Caroline, he’s a Cunningham”, as if he is a different species. Harper Lee does a great job showing how the innocent word of a kid may not sound prejudice to them, simply because they have grown up and been raised around this idea or thought. Harper lee does an excellent job showing how prejudice can be hidden in everyone.

I was so different from my other classmates, that I wanted to adopt new culture to become “normal”. I had not appreciated what my family has gone through and how their culture was apart of my history. Lastly, when his sister said, “What’s this crap about getting dressed up”(4), demonstrates the difference his family had between the fantasy families seen on television. It shows how they were not appreciative and grateful of what they were given. Growing up, I didn’t get why I had a small

James,Mike, and myself (Fred) were all on one team, but we were playing against Drake. At first I didn’t really like him because he was destroying our team 19-6 and he had 12 of those 19 and of course I was forced to defend him. Plus, nobody likes to have their opponent score all of the points. “Good game Fred!” Drake shouted while leaving the court. This made me think he wasn’t so bad.

From ages 10-12 i started cutting i just felt that when i cut it releases the pain from my life. i had friends that made my childhood better yes i did, but i forgot about them soon enough. my best friend was Ashley, she just made me smile everyday, the most surprising thing for me is that Ashley was beautiful like a model, she actually was a child model for a store and i was always there when she was on her photo shoots, we wanted to do it together but they said they had enough kid models but i didn't belive that, they didn't need an ugly chubby child like me, i still just kept cheering for Ashley every time. Every guy in 6th grade had a crush on her, they wanted her to date them but she said she would not date till she was old enough, and with the right person her "prince charming" i just wanted anyone to like me just anyone, i even had a phase where i changed how i looked like into wearing makeup from my mum's stuff, the teacher got concerned and called her in, this is where it started i thought my life was miserable, that everyone hated me, that no one understood how i felt, as you might have guessed my mum yelled at me and grounded me for a month. That, that was when i started building up anger in me every day, to get rid of some anger i cut.