The Color Of Water Ending

I just finished reading it and honestly, I'm surprised I finished it. Although I trudged through it all the way, it had potential to be an incredibly moving story. You hear a lot of people complain about how hard their lives are, especially in the economy today. People complain especially about how hard it is to raise children these days, but then you come across The Color Of Water. Reading through Ruth's story, I felt her anguish in some hard times. She fought to put twelve children through college, and tried her hardest to instill proper values in them. She dealt with a bad situation the best she could. It made me mad though that McBride never asked what made their family special other than his mother being white. He never peels the onion beyond the first thin layer. No questions are asked other than where did his mother come from, but when he finds the "where", there is no follow-up investigation. This entire book would need more in-depth investigation to gain my attention to the fullest. In the end, I have to say my favorite part of the book was the last page because I knew it was almost over!

The Color of Water Chapters 1-8

When I first saw this book on the list, I thought this was going to be my least favorite. I bought it and I thought it was going to be another emotional revolution books for Black Americans that I could only be interested in if it was in a movie. But after the first few chapters it got really interesting and I couldn't put it down. I went through it pretty fast without even realizing it. I had to stop after each chapter and think about some of the connections of James and his mother to completely understand them, however. Ruth isn't exactly the best mother, but it most likes comes from her childhood and life experiences, like her mother having polio and her grandfather dying when she was at a young age. James is respectful and kinda protective of his mother, like when he assumed the Black Panther was going to harm his mother and he punched the Black Panthers son in the face. That was very unexpected. It kinda confused me that James had such curiosity of his family's background and his mother never really gave him a straight answer in the beginning. I thought it was pretty smart that Ruth told James, God was the color of water, meaning like he's no particular color; he doesn't discriminate. That part really caught my attention.