Color of Water

The first reason deals with diversity; how there are so many people in the book, which all come from different backgrounds, races, and religions. The book ties into our college experience how everyone we meet is somewhat different in terms of their living style. It deals with their backgrounds like where they grew up, as in a

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Ruth had a hard time being accepted as a Jew, when it came time for her to graduate her class was going to go to a ceremony at a Protestant church. I was lucky enough to have a friend that I went to high school with so at least when I first came here I had someone to hang out with, talk to, and someone to help me out in tough situations. Even though I just began my college life, I have already gone through some of the same situations that Ruth and her family went though, like diversity, religion, racism, acceptance, and self-sacrifice and I know that every other freshman is going though the same thing here at Elon or at any other college or university in which they are attending. Also our parents had to sacrifice our financial status in order to afford our room and board so that we could get a higher education. It should not matter what color skin one has, but what is found in ones heart is what truly counts. The one thing is that all her children are African American looking because Ruth married an African American man as her husband. Even if you go to a church or go to a synagogue, it doesn’t matter because they are just different places to worship, and everyone is entitled to his or her beliefs and no one should ever be punished for their beliefs. All that matters is how you live your life, and you should live it out to the fullest. It is the same way when you get to college, you have no one, until you are accepted by someone or a group of people and everyone wants to be accepted. She had to work so hard to make the money to put all of her twelve children in college. Even in the stores, African American people would get ripped off, in everything, just like the one time that James tried to get some milk. Even though I have never had to deal with problems as intense as she did, I will always think about this book and the way James McBride described these situations and reflect back to them in the future. People deal differently with their problems from the way others do. I would never judge someone by their color and hopefully through James McBride’s book, people will learn not to judge people by their color as well.

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Approximate Word count = 1280
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)

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