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 denied it. All of those perplexities made him want to find out the concealed history of his family.
             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. He found out that his mom was a Jewish and her family was extremely strict and very devoted to the Jewish beliefs. Her father was an Orthodox rabbi. 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.
             "I had spent considerable time looking through school records, court records and other documents with mixed results. 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. The U.S. Army forked over the death record of Serge...