The Color of Water Main Character List James McBride Author and narrator of the book. James was the eighth of twelve children. He talked about his embarrassment for having a white mother as a child‚ but learned to cope with it. James had dealt with drugs and committing crimes‚ but fought his addiction and returned to school. Ruth McBride Mother of twelve children including James. She was born as a Jewish immigrant‚ having a disabled mother and a racist and cheap father. Ruth married two black
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The Year 3000 It was New Year’s Eve‚ I was in sitting in my chair in the cryogenic lab where I worked. When all of a sudden the New Year’s clock hit one minute until the New Year came. It was the year nineteen-ninety-nine about to be two-thousand. Ten‚ nine‚ eight‚ seven‚ six‚ five‚ four‚ three‚ two‚ one Happy New Year‚ I blew my kazoo and the chair I was sitting in tipped over and I fell into an open cryogenic tube behind me‚ the door was shut and the timer was set for one-thousand years!
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permeated every element of James neighborhood in St. Albans Queens. Malcolm X had been killed and had grown larger in death than in life. The black panthers were a force. Public buildings‚ statues‚ monuments‚ even trees started out as their dull colors and reemerged the next morning painted green‚ red & black. People often asked or teased James about adoption. Teenyboppers often gathered to talk of revolutions. James thought that because his mother was white she would get killed because
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Many people learn a lot of life lessons through many ways. Personally‚ I learn a lot of life lessons through reading books such as The Color of Water by James McBride. In The Color of Water‚ they give off quite a few life lessons from Ruth and James. One life lesson that I learned while reading The Color of Water is that it doesn’t matter where you come from. Just because you grew up some place in some environment doesn’t mean you are always going to be that way. Ruth grew up Jewish with a lot
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way I think‚ feel‚ or do something. One example of this would be water polo. Making the varsity water polo team this year has shaped me overall to work harder‚ try harder‚ and believe harder. Academically speaking‚ I am not the best student. I am not the straight A student with all AP classes or close to perfect SAT scores. I have always worked hard in school and tried my best to keep up with my grades and try to go to college. Water polo has‚ since I started freshman year‚ made me work 10x harder
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Deep Waters “Do one thing every day that scares you.”‚ a quote that Eleanor Roosevelt once chanted. This is something that I once never dreamed of accomplishing. As a child‚ I was described in three words which included quiet‚ shy‚ and a scaredy-cat. These words would slowly disappear after a visit to East Silent Lake Resort‚ in Dent‚ Minnesota. It’s a place in which me and my nine family members vacationed to three years ago‚ when I was thirteen years old. This visit to the resort was during a humid
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I jump into the calm‚ cold‚ dark blue water anxious to water ski for the first time since last year. My family likes do many different sports and activities together and one of the many sports is water skiing. Every year me and my family go up to lake arrowhead to water ski and this year we went during the summer. It has been a year since I water skied but I was anxious to get back up on skis. My uncle driving the boat asks me if I am ready and I nervously nodded my head yes‚ as the boat started
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sleeping with her mouth wide open. Was it funny? I watched out the window to observe the passing cars and the states on their license plates. Water Towers were enamoring to me for some reason. For some reason‚ I thought they were really cool.what did the water towers look like? So I rested my head on my pink satin pillow and observed the various cars going by and water towers. It was not long before my dad realized I had awoken. I asked him if we could drive through somewhere to eat but instead he suggested
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improve and don’t have any mistakes. For my results of how I learn here it is my test results is that I use my eyes.35% my hands 35% my ears 30% it seems like. A good amount of senses and you are probably wondering “SAM what is your color personality.” Well my color personality is GREEN as you can see right there and my favorite hobby:is gaming and.My favorite food:is mashed potatoes with gravy and my favorite move:is inside out and. My birthday is December 18‚ 2002 when I grow up I want to be
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weeklong trip to the boundary waters. The week before this trip I was at a camp called Positive Energy‚ it is a summer camp‚ during this week we went canoeing and rock climbing. The group from Mexico had never done anything like that so the camp leader asked me to help them learn the basic skills like paddle strokes and how to belay for climbing. After the week was up I was approached by the leader and asked if I would join them in the following week trip to the boundary waters as an assistant counselor
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