I chose the movie The Color Purple because the story is centered on the life of African-American women‚ who experienced issues with family bonding. This young lady was faced with many hardship and struggles that began in the home with her family. The storyline behind how this young girl was sexually and mentally abused by her father. The abuse continued later on when she was forced to marry an older man with young children of his own. Throughout her struggles with self-worth and her own identity
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true self? Not knowing why you and your mother look so different can affect one’s sense of identity like it happened to James McBride. This is why throughout his autobiography The Color of Water‚ he concludes that in order to find his true identity he needs to learn about his mother’s past.
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safety‚ and physiological. Self-actualization is the level of need that pertains to what a person’s full potential is and realizing that potential. It is broken up as morality‚ spontaneity‚ and lack of prejudice. Based on the two texts I read‚ The Color of Water by James McBride and The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told by Alex Haley‚ I consider both James McBride and Malcolm X “self-actualized” men to a certain extent. James McBride is a “self-actualized” man to a certain extent because throughout
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“The Color of Water”‚ written by James McBride‚ is a memoir. The book was introduced to us in 1995. The main narrator‚ James‚ born in the year of 1957 to an African-American father and a Jewish mother. James‚ at that time‚ was not to keen about the black power in the sense he had a white mother. During the Civil Rights‚ his stepfather had passed away. From this point on; James realizes the true responsibility of himself towards his friends and family. He unveils his true self to the world with his
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he depicts in The Color of Water. For instance‚ when McBride depicts how his mother‚ Ruth‚ raises him and his eleven other siblings‚ he depicts how Ruth is constantly abused and ridiculed by the black community. McBride argues how the black community loathes his mother due to the actuality that she was a white woman raising James and his mixed siblings. I agree with McBride’s claim because it is evident that the black community had no other reason to hate Ruth except for the color of her skin and how
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finding a place to fit in the puzzle of the world. In the memoir The Color of Water by James McBride‚ both characters‚ Ruth and James‚ grow up in communities where they feel like outcasts. James is biracial but appears black‚ and goes to an all white school. Ruth was raised as an orthodox Jew in a non-Jewish community. Ruth and James strive for acceptance and find it through insubordination; by rebelling against society both Ruth and James find themselves. They do so by going against their parents
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during the test. 1. What does James compare his mother’s singing voice to? 2. Who does Ruth say is the “color of water?” 3. Why does James think his mother cries in church? 4. What comparison does McBride make about Reverend Owens and himself‚ as a young boy‚ that suggests the Reverend is not genuine? 5. What does Richie confront Reverend Owens about? 6. Why does Mommy (Ruth) “beat Billy’s butt?” 7. How does Richie deal with his confusion about whether he is Black or White
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The life story of: James McBride In the end people have the power to influence and change other people’s lives‚ in The Color of Water by James McBride; James learns many important life lessons from the people around him and in his life and how to be a leader not a follower. Perhaps the greatest influence on James is the Chicken man who teaches James to get an education‚ to help James to find determination in life‚ and not to get in to a man and woman argument if you’re not in it with them
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to Moab‚ which was a town that was polytheistic and did not serve the same God that Naomi’s family served. One day‚ Naomi’s husband died and she was left with only her 2 sons. Well Naomi’s 2 sons eventually married 2 women of Moab named Orpah and Ruth and they lived there for about 10 years until Naomi’s 2 sons died. So Naomi fled her native country to flee certain death due to famine and ended up losing her husband and her 2 sons. Back in that time‚ the man was the security for the woman.
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In The Color of Water Ruth’s schooling experience is quite different from her son James experience in a public school; however‚ they do have various similarities as well. To begin‚ in chapter 9‚ Ruth quotes “...he would rather pay for us to study privately than go to school with gentiles…” (McBride 80). Ruth had to attend an all white school in a time where the Jews were not appreciated by many people. This is one similarity that James and his mother faced in school; being minorities was a problem
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