Color of Water

             After reading the memoir, The Color of Water, by James McBride I can conclude that he has been successful at overcoming his five inner enemies. Throughout the story he has grown emotionally, he has made creative connections with journalism, writing, music, and the people around him. He has learned to empathize with his mother and her past, he also did a good job at managing his ego, while overcoming alienation and boredom.
             In my life many people who I love dearly have been taken away from me and I hated it deeply, but I have learned to gather my emotions together and move on, though I still think about them always, and probably always will. In this story McBride was faced with many emotional roller coasters in his life, but he has learned to cope with them. He had his biological father taken away from him very early in his life, and had his caring stepfather taken away from him. After the loss of his stepfather his life went straight downhill; skipping school, doing drugs, drinking, and committing petty crimes. Eventual he learned that he had to gather his emotions and grow on them. This is what made him stronger in life, by growing on these emotions for his dead fathers and finding faith in Jesus.
             McBride is someone that I would consider to be a Renaissance man, he composes music and literature, and he has been successful at writing in many of the top magazines and a professional jazz player on the saxophone. From what I can gather most jazz is linked with the blues, and well McBride has had many blues in his life and he makes the connection from his own blues to his music in a very creative way. He has took the rough life he and his mother have both lived and combined it with his literary skills and turned it into a New York Times best seller for over two years. McBride also made a connection with a certain David Lee Preston who was a writer, follower of jazz, and a Jew, whom are now best friends.
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