SparkNote The Color of Water James McBride Context James McBride was born in 1957 to an African-American father and a Polish Jewish immigrant mother. McBride’s biological father‚ Andrew Dennis McBride‚ died of lung cancer while his mother‚ Ruth McBride‚ was pregnant with James. Therefore James regarded his stepfather‚ Hunter Jordan‚ as "Daddy." James’s mother eventually had twelve children‚ eight from her first marriage and four from her second. James grew up in New York City and Delaware
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mother is the central figure in the family. She supports them by working in a cafeteria and cleaning various apartments. After and before work‚ she takes care of her ill husband and children. On a terribly snowy winter day‚ Mike’s younger sister‚ Esther‚ goes out into the streets to collect wood for the stove where she is run over by a truck and dies. A lawyer comes to their home and says that if the mother and father sign a paper‚ he will get them a thousand dollars from Adams Express‚ the company
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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‚ finding a different community
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At the beginning of the book it starts to talk about Ruth‚ James McBride’s‚ mother. We learn of the life Ruth had and who her family was. Learning that Ruth was Jewish and the her family consisted of two siblings and her parents. The father was Fishel Shilsky and the mother was Hudis Shilsky. These two got an arranged marriage in order to get/stay in the U.S. Fishel‚ or Tateh (meaning father)‚ was a mean and crude father and never really liked his children. Hudis‚ or Mameh (meaning mother)‚ was
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try to exert power. Many of the characters try to exert power over others through various means such as sexuality and intelligence. The use of violence within the household is believed by the men to be the most important tool of power. However‚ when Ruth‚ the only woman in the play‚ enters‚ she appears to defeat the men ’s power‚ but not with violence. Her sexuality and apparent intelligence become part of the way in which she takes control of the house. Power itself is the ability to take control
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Robinson’s novel Housekeeping. The novel follows the lives of sisters Ruth and Lucille Stone‚ whose father deserts their family too early for them to remember and whose mother commits suicide around six years later. The sister were neglected in their childhood‚ the family that surrounded them did not want to care for them and they became isolated from any support system beyond whatever adult could be persuaded to look after them. When Ruth and Lucille aunt Sylvie returns to Fingerbone‚ Idaho to look after
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important than the upholstery” (23). Ruth can easily be compared to the couch in her living room as a woman who is overcome by how she feels about the Younger household and living conditions. Over the course of this play‚ The Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry‚ Ruth changes from fed up to relieved‚ content to concerned‚ and finally from concerned to satisfied. In the beginning‚ she is sick of everything‚ and events change her feelings to be calmer. Near the middle‚ Ruth goes from feeling content to
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Ruth is 28yr old woman with a diagnosis of Schizophrenia from a young age. Ruth as a young girl was known to be very active and fun loving girl. She also has a history of drug abuse as a teenager. She has had a few admissions in an in patient ward. When she was unwell she was very aggressive towards her family as voices were telling her to do this. As per National institute of clinical Excellence (NICE 2009) Guide lines clozapine is used as a last resort in antipsychotic medication‚ Ruth was
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themes‚ one of which being freedom. Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping conveys the idea that freedom is attained by breaking away from society‚ through the symbolism of the crossing of the railroad bridge at the end of the novel. The main characters‚ Ruth and Lucille‚ are sisters who experience a lot of loss in their lives. Before they were even born‚ their grandfather dies while working on the railroad that connects the town of Fingerbone‚ Idaho to the rest of the country. When they are little‚ their
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