Compare/ Contrast of Wright and Hurston

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

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The rough times and situations that Wright went through caused him to more of bitter person. Hurston had it easier than Wright, but both of them did overcome adversity. He became close-minded and uncertain. She is an individual and a good example to us all. His position was not much better than mine and I knew he was uneasy and insecure; he had always treated me in an offhand, bantering way that barely concealed his contempt” (Wright 399). So that’s a big difference right there. This was all Richard Wright needed to get started on his reading. It was such a shame that it was even an issue for him to get the books. He encountered situations of extreme prejudice and he really didn’t trust anyone. “At certain times I have no race, I am me. This was a contrast to Hurston who received much support from here community. “I weighed the personalities of the men on the job.

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