The Color Of Water Analysis

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A memoir can open one’s eyes to the reality of many things. In the Color of Water by James McBride, McBride gives the reader an inside look at what growing up as a black man with a white mother was like. McBride highlighted the differences and similarities of what his life was like growing up in comparison to his mother’s as well as giving the reader an idea of the numerous joys and challenges living in America brought.
James McBride’s mother, Ruth. grew up in Virginia born a white Jew in a predominantly gentile town. Considering she was white and raised purely Jewish, this meant her father did not want her intermingling with people of other religions or race. Her father even went to the extent of forbidding her to go into the church that