The Color of Water
James McBride, the author of my summer reading book-"The Color of Water", had found out his identity through feedbacks from other people as well as his own thoughts and emotions. Identity is defined as "the distinct personality of an individual." Many factors make up one's identity, such as race, religion and one's relationship with people. One aspect of identity is the color of one's skin. People always stared at McBride's family when his mother, siblings and himself were walking on the street in his early childhood. He was bemused by the way people looked at his family, his mother and why he was not accepted. He felt uncomfortable that he's mom was white and he's black. Every time he tried to ask his mother about her past, but she den
My grandmother Hudis was buried far from here, in a Long Island graveyard amongst hundreds of Jews, more than she ever had the pleasure of living around down here. All those details about James McBride's grandparents showed that he had a very clear understanding about his identity. The 22nd chapter of the book is titled "A Jew Discovered". Obviously, James McBride had found a past about her mother and knew that her mother was a Jewish, he had gone to the old places that his family had lived in before and the church which her mom used to go to and met Gerry Jaffe who knew, his mom's family very well when James McBride's mom was young. In "Daddy", it talked about that appearance of his stepfather who's also a nice black man and added four more kids to his family. Because her father compelled her to spend time working at the store, she didn't have any friends and she was isolated from others with the exception of Frances, whom James McBride tried to find. His mom married to Andrew McBride first, after his death, she married to Hunter Jordan who raised James as own child. He found out that his mom was a Jewish and her family was extremely strict and very devoted to the Jewish beliefs. Army forked over the death record of Sergeant Sam Shilsky, who died in February 1944, but the details of his service record were gone forever, lost in fire of army personnel records" (220). A person must overcome some obstacles in order to get to know the true himself. In "The Color of Water", James McBride researched for his identity, as everybody must do in his childhood. All of those perplexities made him want to find out the concealed history of his family.
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