Secrets In Mcbride's The Color Of Water
The Color of Water
1) Introduction: Secrets are a burden that can affect you and even the ones that you love. This is what James McBride was probably trying to get the reader to understand through the text in the book The Color of Water. After having this said McBride tries to explain the burden of secrets through his mother, Ruth McBride Jorden, who holds various secrets. The secrets that Ruth has kept to herself all come from her past, which haunt het later in life and complicate her relationship with her family.
2) Support your claim:
Reason 1:
One of the secrets that Ruth had to battle with when living in Suffolk was being pregnant by her boyfriend Peter, who she only told about her pregnancy. In chapter 11 page 114 it states that …show more content…
Keeping her background a secret, James always thought that his mother was different because she was the only white lady in an all-black neighborhood. For example, in chapter 2, page 12 James asks his mother who she is and why she does not look like him. This makes James not only wonder about his identity, but as well as his mother’s.
3 & 4) Opposing Claim & Counterclaim: Not all secrets are a burden, I mean keeping someone’s birthday surprise a secret is not such of burden as keeping the secret of cheating on the final exams. However is not like people keep little secret for a long time, people will usually keep very big and deep secrets. Either way, keeping secrets are not only a burden, but can be hazardous to your health. According to the article “Keeping Secrets Can Be Hazardous to Your Health” it states that every time you think about a deeply held secret, stress hormones such as cortisol can surge, impacting your memory, blood pressure, gastrointestinal tract and metabolism. As neurosurgeon Gopal Chopra says “Those Hormones also include norepinephrine, which affect parts of the brain where attention and responses are
1) Introduction: Secrets are a burden that can affect you and even the ones that you love. This is what James McBride was probably trying to get the reader to understand through the text in the book The Color of Water. After having this said McBride tries to explain the burden of secrets through his mother, Ruth McBride Jorden, who holds various secrets. The secrets that Ruth has kept to herself all come from her past, which haunt het later in life and complicate her relationship with her family.
2) Support your claim:
Reason 1:
One of the secrets that Ruth had to battle with when living in Suffolk was being pregnant by her boyfriend Peter, who she only told about her pregnancy. In chapter 11 page 114 it states that …show more content…
Keeping her background a secret, James always thought that his mother was different because she was the only white lady in an all-black neighborhood. For example, in chapter 2, page 12 James asks his mother who she is and why she does not look like him. This makes James not only wonder about his identity, but as well as his mother’s.
3 & 4) Opposing Claim & Counterclaim: Not all secrets are a burden, I mean keeping someone’s birthday surprise a secret is not such of burden as keeping the secret of cheating on the final exams. However is not like people keep little secret for a long time, people will usually keep very big and deep secrets. Either way, keeping secrets are not only a burden, but can be hazardous to your health. According to the article “Keeping Secrets Can Be Hazardous to Your Health” it states that every time you think about a deeply held secret, stress hormones such as cortisol can surge, impacting your memory, blood pressure, gastrointestinal tract and metabolism. As neurosurgeon Gopal Chopra says “Those Hormones also include norepinephrine, which affect parts of the brain where attention and responses are