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In the reading “Color Struck” by Zora Neale Hurston, it was a play based on colorism and the judgement that black individuals faced in their own communities. Hurston used Emmaline’s insecurity about her own complexion to portray her hatred for fair skinned black women. Throughout the play Emmaline was obsessed with the idea that light skinned women takes everything and they was going to take John away from her too.

Hurston displayed how hatred among these individuals stems from ones’s own hatred, by using Emmaline’s hatred against her in the most contradicting way. Even in her so called “hatred” Emmaline managed to have a baby by a white man thus producing the very thing she hates, a light skinned black woman. Hurston goes even further by extending her jealousy and hatred toward her sick daughter who received compassion from John, a man she “loved” and haven’t seen in over 20 years.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne poem focus on the view of life from a child perspective as well as an adult,many times Hawthorne would look at little Annie and see same excitement in her eyes as it was in his when he was a little boy.

“Who heeds the poor organ grinder? None but myself and little Annie, whose feet begin to move in unison with the lively tune, as if she were loth that music should be wasted without a dance.”(Hawthorne) Here Hawthorne express that children are more care free about life then adults as little Annie is dancing to the organ player while adults are too preoccupied with their lives to even notice the organ player, even he stands by idly and watches her instead of joining her. He states that children are always curious about the world they live in, even doing something simple like strolling down the street is an exciting adventure for a child.

Overall, he sympathizes with little Annie’s youthfulness, he quotes “After drinking from those fountains of still fresh existence, we shall return into the crowd, as I do now, to struggle onward and do our part in life, perhaps as fervently as ever, but, for a time, with a kinder and purer heart, and a spirit more lightly wise.” being around little Annie make him feel nostalgic about his own childhood and he realize that maybe he should be a little more childlike in life, to live it with a lighter spirit and not struggle with the burden of being an adult.