The Color of Water 1) Introduction: Secrets are a burden that can affect you and even the ones that you love. This is what James McBride was probably trying to get the reader to understand through the text in the book The Color of Water. After having this said McBride tries to explain the burden of secrets through his mother‚ Ruth McBride Jorden‚ who holds various secrets. The secrets that Ruth has kept to herself all come from her past‚ which haunt het later in life and complicate her relationship
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Names are what makes up a person’s personality‚ and affect your future. In “what’s in a name?” Okaikor’s father changed his name and lived a distinctive life than he would have if he hadn’t changed his original identity. Additionally‚ in “The Color of Water.” The passage
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In The Color of Water‚ author James McBride writes both his autobiography and a tribute to the life of his mother‚ Ruth McBride. In the memoirs of the author’s mother and of himself‚ they constantly face discrimination from their race in certain neighborhoods and of their religious beliefs. The trials and tribulations faced by these two characters have taught readers universally that everyone faces difficulties in life‚ but they can all be surmounted. Whenever Ruth or James McBride face any forms
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Racial exclusion is a man made concept that drives people to think certain things about certain colors‚ and then to act upon it. It is usually portrayed and modeled by older generations and then seen by younger generations‚ making racism come full circle as a normality. This common problem is very evident and exposed to Ruth McBride in The Color of Water through her experience with Peter‚ her first boyfriend. As Ruth was white‚ and the world around her was not‚ she has to navigate if it is possible
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James McBride‚ in writingThe Color Of Water‚ does so with a clear purpose in mind. In his book‚ through various rhetorical strategies‚ he makes it clear that his ethnicity does not matter. It does not matter if he is considered Jewish or Christian. It does not matter if he is considered black or white. He is simply “happy to be living.” He slowly comes to this realization as his story progresses and the narrative of his mother acts to bolster the realization he comes to at the end. The overarching
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safety‚ and physiological. Self-actualization is the level of need that pertains to what a person’s full potential is and realizing that potential. It is broken up as morality‚ spontaneity‚ and lack of prejudice. Based on the two texts I read‚ The Color of Water by James McBride and The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told by Alex Haley‚ I consider both James McBride and Malcolm X “self-actualized” men to a certain extent. James McBride is a “self-actualized” man to a certain extent because throughout
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In The Color of Water James McBride devoted an entire chapter to his mother’s bicycle. An old-fashioned bicycle that was brought home by her late husband right before his death the bicycle was a coping instrument to his mother. She would ride the bicycle around town constantly‚ as if the constant motion would allow her to ignore what was happening in her life. The bicycle was “a huge old clunker‚ blue with white trim‚ with big fat tires and a battery-powered horn” (McBride 5). The eccentricity
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Color of Water Chapter Analysis Chapters: 13-14 The significance of these two chapters of the story revolves around the city of New York and how it fit in to both Ruth and McBride’s issues they had to deal with in their youth. Ruth’s experiences with the city were similar but yet different‚ then her son’s. When she visited New York she described it as “an eyepopper‚”(130) that consisted of so many “people rushing about‚”(130) that made it seem like everyone was “too busy to care about what
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The life story of: James McBride In the end people have the power to influence and change other people’s lives‚ in The Color of Water by James McBride; James learns many important life lessons from the people around him and in his life and how to be a leader not a follower. Perhaps the greatest influence on James is the Chicken man who teaches James to get an education‚ to help James to find determination in life‚ and not to get in to a man and woman argument if you’re not in it with them
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because he started to turn to crime‚ drugs‚ and fail his classes. He also started to notice that his mother was different and that she did not mind/care for the issues of race. James always struggled with the fact that his mother had a different skin color than him and different background as in religion. He sometimes thought of himself as adopted. He had problems with race because he grew up during the Civil Rights Era and had trouble finding himself to fit in. He finds‚ through his mother‚ that family
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