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How It Feels To Be Colored Me And The Rosecrete
Ryan Goldrick Ms.Willis/Period 7
September 21,2009 Human Nature Essay

Human Nature
In the Anthology the authors wrote about many different complex characters. These characters showed great examples of human nature. In my opinion, three of the best stories in the Anthology that had examples of human nature are How it Feels to be Colored Me, by Zora Hurston, The Necklace, by Guy de Maupassant, and The Rose that Grew from Concrete, by Tupac Shakur. These stories show how humans have different characteristics. These characteristics are determination, intolerance, and the need to have more than what they have. Zora Hurston, in How it Feels to be Colored Me shows how humans can be extremely intolerant. “Someone is always at
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