Bell Hook wrote an essay on her problems and ongoing conflicts of being a colored woman trying to find a balance between acceptance as a college student and finding an education which she could use to structure herself upon. Many of her faults in her essay lie in trying to get her point across. She does not seem to set forth the focus of her essay very well. Hook starts out explaining her troubles, where …showed first 75 words of 787 total…

…showed last 75 words of 787 total…one or two points where one can show the reader their struggles, but in a more "coming above it" way than a " I need pity" way. Although Bell Hook’s essay of her as an African Americans struggle of finding a happy medium of education and being accepted carried some sort of a “griping” tone, if we allowed ourselves to see deeper into her battles for acceptance in comfort, we begin to sympathize with her.