solved Read the following passage from the end of the piece

Read the following passage from the end of the piece by Zora Neale Hurston and then answer the questions in your discussion post.
“But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a
wall. Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red and yellow.
Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small, things
priceless and worthless. A first-water diamond, an empty spool, bits of
broken glass, lengths of string, a key to a door long since crumbled away, a
rusty knife-blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will
be, a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried
flower or two still a little fragrant. In your hand is the brown bag. On the
ground before you is the jumble it held–so much like the jumble in the
bags, could they be emptied, that all might be dumped in a single heap and
the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of
colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great
Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place–who knows.” 
–Examine the metaphor that Hurston uses — what does the “brown bag” represent?  
–What does the list of contents represent?  Pick out at least two or three specific things she lists as contents and explain what they could symbolize.
–Why does Hurston say that if all the bags were emptied together and refilled randomly, it wouldn’t really alter the contents greatly?  
–Who is the “Great Stuffer of Bags” and how does Hurston feel about him/her?
Respond to at least one of your classmates
Hi Everyone,
In “How It Feels to be Colored Me,” Zora Neale Hurston used the brown bag and the second sentence, “Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red and yellow,” as a metaphor for how she views people’s different races throughout society. This metaphor can also reflect her personal experience. Earlier in the piece, Hurston wrote about how her move from her community in Eatonville to Jacksonville was what made her think about her race for the first time. Back in Eatonville, Hurston described that the only difference she felt between herself and white people was when she would see them driving through town on the way to or from Orlando, but never living there. Since Hurston’s arrival in Jacksonville, she no longer felt she was “Zora of Orange County,” she was now “Against a wall in company with other bags.”
In general, the list of contents in the bags is a metaphor for life’s challenges and memories. A “key to a door long since crumbled away,” can be the memory of something that once may have been a discovery or opportunity in life, but not valuable anymore as Hurston described the bag’s contents as “priceless and worthless.” The quote “old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be” may resemble a memory of preparing to take a specific path forward, only to end up never embarking on that journey due to unforeseen circumstances in life. Hurston also mentioned that these bags could be emptied and randomly refilled without greatly altering the contents. The contents would not be altered because any individual can face challenges in life and have many memories, so they do not greatly differ in general characteristics. Society, on the other hand, will differentiate between individuals, unfortunately, based on race, for which Hurston is using the colors of the bags as metaphors. How people in society are differentiated based on race can result in how each of these bags is filled differently. Why each bag is filled differently in a way that results in inequality is not always in an individual’s control, and is perhaps how the “Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place.” The “Great Stuffer of Bags” can resemble god or how any individual’s characteristics are natural and out of their control. Hurston indicates distaste for the way the “Great Stuffer of Bags” filled the bags because the bags could be emptied and randomly refilled without greatly altering the contents, but instead they are differentiated based on their colors (individuals may not greatly differ in general characteristics when it comes to facing challenges and having memories in life, but in society, they are differentiated based on their race).