The world is not fair; people get stuck at traffic lights, there are accidents and good people die. There are so many complexities in life that prove that the world is impartial. In the autobiography, The Color of Water, by James McBride, Ruth McBride is a prime example of someone who is faced with the cruelties of life. Throughout the trying and difficult course of Ruth's life, she must overcome molestation, prejudice and isolation. Throughout her strife, she proves in the end that she came out on top.
             At the beginning of the novel, The Color of Water, by James McBride Ruth starts by stating that she is dead to her family, and they are dead to her. This grim reality is supported by Ruth saying, "You want to talk about my family and here I been dead to them for fifty years. ... They want no parts of me and I want no parts of them" (McBride 1). When Ruth married an African American, Andrew Dennis McBride whom fathered eight of Ruth's twelve children, her family disowned her. This eager disapproval from her family Ruth feel alone and isolated. It was not fair that Ruth had to face the injustice that her family served her, yet she moved on from their ridicule and shame, and managed to lead a Christian and moral life.
             No child should have to experience what happened to Ruth McBride when she was a child. Ruth speaks about her father's evil and perverse ways in chapter five of the novel, "Of course I had something to run from. My father did things to me when I was a young girl that I couldn't tell anyone about. Such as getting into bed with me at night and doing things to me sexually that I could not tell anyone about" (McBride 42). Studies have proven that the emotional and mental wounds caused by sexual molestation and rape are, in many cases, irreparable. Ruth discloses her father and her deep, dark secret only to her son in her memoir. As a young girl, she was bound t
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