How it Feels to Be Adopted Me I used “How it Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston as my mentor text for this essay. I have always known that I was adopted. There was never one day when I realized that my parents were not biologically related to me. Being adopted has always been a part of me, ever since early childhood. Almost every year, in my elementary school classes, I had to create a project in which I had to describe myself. Sometimes I would have to use objects or pictures, at other times I would have to write an essay or poem. Every single time I completed a variation of that assignment, I included the same three facts about myself: I like to dance, I enjoy going to the beach, and I am adopted. I remember being so proud to …show more content…
Suddenly, I wasn’t the girl everyone already knew who liked to dance, enjoyed going to the beach, and was adopted. I became the “new girl.” No one knew that my parents were white. They only knew that I was Asian. I soon began to question my assumption that being adopted was so great. People at Stafford saw me differently. They made assumptions about me. I knew in my heart that something was changing, but it took me a while to understand what it was. But I am not asking for sympathy. I do not mind being adopted. I do not believe that I was put at any disadvantage because of it. On the contrary, I view my adoption as an event that greatly benefitted my life. So no, I do not curse my situation – I am too busy doing my homework. I view my adoption as something that has given me a loving family and amazing opportunities. I didn’t choose to be adopted, but others don’t choose to be born into their family. I just happened to get lucky. However, some people view my adoption with sympathy. They see me as the result my parents’ infertility. Since my parents couldn’t have a kid of their own, they decided to do the next best thing. Thus, my adoption was Plan B. How ironic? These different views on my adoption result in varied reactions from others, which always make for interesting
From slavery to the Harlem Renaissance, a revolutionary change in the African American community, lead by poets, musicians and artists of all style. People where expressing their feeling by writing the poem, playing on instruments and many more. According to the poem “ I, Too” by Langston Hughes and article “How it feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurtson, the poem and article connects to each other. The poem is about how a African Man, who sits in the dinning café and says that, one day nobody would be able to ask him to move anywhere, and the in the article written by Zora Neale Hurtson, she describes how her life was different from others, she was not afraid of going anywhere. They both have very similar thoughts,
In ‘How it feels to be colored me’ Neale Hurston opens up to her pride and identity as an African-American. Hurston uses a wide variety of imagery, diction using figurative language freely with metaphors. Her tone is bordering controversial using local lingo.
In “How It Feels to Be Colored Me,” Hurston breaks from the tradition of her time by rejecting the idea that the African American people should be ashamed or saddened by the color of their skin. She tells other African Americans that they should embrace their color and be proud of who they are. She writes, “[A socialite]…has nothing on me. The cosmic Zora emerges,” and “I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads” (942-943). Whether she feels “colored” or not, she knows she is beautiful and of value. But Hurston writes about a time when she did not always know that she was considered colored.
Lynch is a writer and teacher in Northern New Mexico. In the following essay, she examines ways that the text of The Souls of Black Folk embodies Du Bois' experience of duality as well as his "people's."
Parents have the tendency to overlook how lucky they are to have had the ability to create their own children. Many do not recognize what a true blessing it is to have kids, and that others are not fortunate enough to experience that miracle. Ten percent of couples endure infertility (Advantages) so they must consider other options. A very popular choice is adoption. It is not only a good alternative for the couple, but also for the child who needs a loving home.
The adoption process involves many individuals other than just the child. Legally, there are approximately seven million registered adoptions. Additionally, non-recorded adoptions also take place, increasing the number of orphans who are united with new families. Parties directly involved include the adoptive parents, the biological parents, and probable siblings. Later in life, as the adoptive child potentially marries, the effects of their adoption story will more than likely also directly touch the spouse and their children as well. Numerous adoptions in the United States prove that their biological parents do not raise a large percentage of children. Consequently, adoption remains a significant aspect of American culture and social structure (Fulghum, 71).
Psychologists conducted a study of a four year old adopted child named Ella to see how she responded and reacted to people. While analyzing her playing with dolls, she said to one of the adults “Can I live with you? I have no home. I have no family. I have to steal food or starve to death.”(Kaufman, Adele) This article clearly shows that because of her birth parent(s) giving her up, it has affected the way she portrays family. The relationship between a child and parent is crucial in the development process. While the child is young, they might not be aware of the fact they are adopted. As they grow up this will become obvious. If the birth parents are involved in their life it will prevent this confusion when they are old enough to understand their
What is Adoption? It can be a beautiful thing, seeing as someone can find it in their heart to take in a child/children who they dont even know and commit to taking care of them until they can take care of themselves. Adoption can also be quite frightening. A child may feel abandoned, left out, unloved, and many other feelings.Although your relationship with the birthparents may start out great, sometimes problems develop later on. Keep in mind that relationships with family members (including one's own parents) are sometimes strained, so it shouldn't be surprising if problems occasionally surface with an open adoption. Even very strong proponents of open
Identity and biological roots are other important elements that concern adopted children around the world. Kowal ...
There are common ordeals and situations that can trouble a family emotionally, physically, and psychologically. Adoption is one situation a family must encounter when a child is born without a proper system of support to sustain life after birth. The causes for a family to make a heartfelt decision to place a child for adoption can have dramatic effects on the birth parents, adoptive parents, and child (Adoptee), even if the decision is meant for the best.
"I am a 31 yr. old adoptee, I was adopted at birth it was prearranged prior to my birth, my sister who is 3 yrs younger also a prearranged adoption at birth...actually we were picked up by our adopted parents around six to nine weeks but my understanding is I was never with my birth mother I was either in the hospital or at the agency until they came to get us" ("Open Adoption").
Although people may think of it this way, it is far from true. Adoption has become fairly popular in recent years. “Since the mid-1990s, the number of international adoptions each year has nearly doubled, from 22,200 in 1995 to just under 40,000 in 2006” (Graff). This sudden popularity has caused people to doubt, speculate, and criticize international adoption. People have a skewed perception of it, and they are not willing alter their beliefs. The parents that wish to adopt a child have gone through long, tedious processes to prove they are fit parents. They anxiously await their son or daughter with no means of harming the them. Adoption is a way for parents who cannot have children, for whatever reason, be able to go through the life-changing experience of raising one. The parents have the child’s best interest in mind. Parents that adopt a child have the exact same intentions as parents that give birth to a child themselves. Adoption was created as a way for children with no parents to have a chance for a happy upbringing and a promising future. It was in no way created as this cruel act that society has twisted it
I grew up the youngest in a family of five. My mother and father divorced when I was a few months old. My mother struggled to take care of five young children on her own. Because her parents died when she was a little girl, she never considered giving us up for adoption or to relatives. My natural father never kept in touch with us. He never helped my mother care for us and so I never knew him and have no recollection of him.
Although I was young, I remember the day It happened. I was congratulated and welcomed by a bunch of unfamiliar faces, I was trying to get to know. On my adoption day, I was young, but old enough to know what was happening and somewhat my circumstance. I was a four year-old girl who knew I got taken from my parents, and other family I lived with in the past. Although I wasn't distraught because I was young and these new people were so nice, I still felt the need to stick by the side of my biological brother and sister who too, were getting adopted.
Many perceptions are made about adopted children,and people begin to question. Where does the adopted child receive their personalities and who is responsible for the children’s actions? Another thing that may come to one’s mind is at which age will adoption have the greatest impact and effect on a child? Thirdly, people are curious about learning if the majority of adopted children would like to meet their birth parents?