Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston were very similar in many ways. They saw different on a lot of issues however. They were both in different situations and handled those situations differently. In the following essay the similarities and differences of Hurston and Wright will be explored.

Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston were both African American. They both grew up in the South. Richard Wright was born on a plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, and than he moved to Memphis. Zora Neale Hurston grew up in Eatonville, Florida which was the first incorporated African-American community in the United States. She than moved to New York, where she was the first African American admitted to Barnard College.

Wright wrote "The Library Card" which in an excerpt from Black Boy in 1945. It is about how he took advantage of an opportunity to develop intellectually (Wright 398), while Hurtson's How It Feels To Be Colored Me is about her celebrating the hope and joy of African American life, music, and stories. Wright wrote his story about when he was 19, whereas Hurston wrote her story about when she was

Wright was discriminated against, however Hurston received a lot of support. This is a reason why Wright was more close minded. If he was treated as Hurston was, he might have the same open-minded attitude. He would have been more confident with himself, and would be more trustworthy towards people of different races. The only person who Wright had enough trust in to ask him for a library card was an Irish Catholic man. He was hesitant at first, but he did eventually lend the card to Wright. This was all Richard Wright needed to get started on his reading.

The rough times and situations that Wright went through caused him to more of bitter person. He became close-minded and uncertain. Hurston, on the other hand, was open-minded and had a strong sense of pride. "I have no separate feeling about being an American citizen and colored. I am merely a fragment of the Great Soul that surges within the boundaries. My country, right or wrong" (Hurston 435). This shows that she focuses on her character more on than on the color of her skin. She is an individual and a good example to us all. Character and personality are the most important things; ethnicity sh

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