The water and the blood

Nancy E. Turner’s novel, The Water and the Blood, focuses on Frosty Summers’ life during the Second World War. The war gives Frosty Summers, an open-minded girl with a dysfunctional family, the chance to escape from her hometown Sabine and experience a better life in South California. She finds out that her close-minded, intolerant parents are only an obstacle for her: they are constantly trying to keep her from doing what makes her happy. But in the end, Frosty received enough intolerance from her family to realize that she has to leave Sabine to become the happy person that she wants to be.

The Summers family is strictly religious and insists on their principles while Frosty walks through her life with curiosity and openness for the new and unknown. When Frosty joins the church service of the Missionary Way as the only white person, she realizes that the “colored” people aren’t as bad as she was taught by her parents. She describes, “I loved

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One day, when Frosty spends time with them at her apartment, she observes them and thinks, “Would she [Delia] let a Negro girl like Sharmayne a joke on her and laugh? . But Frosty’s love to Gordon is strong enough to resist her parent’s opinion.

In Gordon Benally Frosty meets the love of her life. Everything even the prayers, were sung in a rolling chant that had a rhythm to it. Unequally yoked!” Frosty’s parents don’t even try to accept a colored Navajo guy with a different religion because they are intolerant. Although those girls have a different skin color or another religion, they have great appreciable qualities. Since Frosty’s parents behave like racists, they wouldn’t like their daughter to go there, although it might make her happier than attending the church service where they go. We won’t see you married to some colored, catholic-ismed idolater. Frosty is strong enough to ignore her parents’ rules, despite the fact that she knows they would never accept her preference. ” Frosty soon realizes that those people are very cheerful, and that she feels more comfortable in this church than in the one her family goes to. In her hometown Sabine, Frosty could never bring people like them to her house, and she could definitely not introduce them to her parents as her friends. After her parents have met Gordon, her father tells her why he doesn’t want her to be with him, “Sprinkled! That’s not baptized.

Frosty finds out that California is a place where she can live a better life.

Approximate Word count = 639
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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