The reading passage looks into racial problems. Instead of the general understanding that racial discrimination is one of the social problems in the States, 
the author offers a very different point of view from one person’s experience. The passage has been written in the first person. The main character, Zora Neale Hurston states that she does not feel separated about being a colored American citizen. The passage can be broadly divided into three main parts: my impressions of the white when I was a child; the time I became aware of being colored; and lastly how I feel to be a black as an adult. The writing technique of this passage is worth our attention. We have come across many general-specific patterns, such as a general statement supported by details, illustrations, examples, etc. But this time we have the other way round. The author starts from details and then comes to a general statement or a conclusion. 
1.The first part consists of 3 paragraphs, from Paragraph 1 to Paragraph 3, concentrating on how I felt about the white people when I was a child. Paragraph 1 presents detailed descriptions about how I, as a child, watched the white people passing my village with pleasure. Paragraph 2 offers some details about how I responded to the white as a child. Paragraph 3 comes to a general statement that I did not feel any difference from the white though I was a black Zora.
2. The second part is one paragraph, Paragraph 4. It was when I was thirteen that I found out in my heart as well as in the mirror that I was a little black girl. This is a transitional paragraph in the sense that it links my childhood to my adulthood.
3. The third part is made up of 3 paragraphs, from Paragraph 5 to Paragraph 7. This part deals with how I feel about being colored as an adult. Paragraph 5 tells us how I look at the problem of slavery. I never feel depressed for slavery is something in the past. I think that I am just like in a foot race: I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the middle to look into the past and weep. I have nothing to lose but a world to win. In Paragraph 6 the author tells us with one example that I do not always feel colored. Paragraph 7 offers a general conclusion about my feelings about being black. The author is making a comparison here that people of different colors are just like bags, made by the God, of different colors, but containing similar contents. And being black is just like belonging to a brown bag among many different colored ones such as white, yellow and red. So being colored does not make any difference to me.
