The Color of Water by James McBride

Book review of water In this memoir, the author chose two narrator. One person myself and the other as a mother. This style brings a very interesting story, jumping back and forth between children's life and mother's life. Despite many changes made, they are easy to catch up with James and the other chapters of his mother as two narrator in this book. Therefore, it is easy to compare childhood of each hero.

In the color of water, James McBride wrote his autobiography and a tribute to his mother, Ruth McBride's life. Ruth married Andrew Dennis McBride, a Negro from North Carolina. James' childhood age was spent in a chaotic family of 12 children. Ruth did not want to discuss the painful details of her early family life when her abusive father Tate told her sullen and gentle mother, Ma Mei. Ruth interrupted all her relations with the Jewish family. Because when they married James' father they basically did not know her.

"Color of water" is James McBride's verification of ethnic, religious and social origins. The author was a son of Ruth Jordan, born in Poland, when he was two years old in 1923 he moved to the United States with a Jewish family. "Water color" not only explores James McBride's past but also reveals his mother Ruth's family and the background of his life. In this article we will explain the differences between the two characteristics of mother and child, their similarities and differences, and how to deal with specific problems such as identity and social exclusion. In addition, since identity building is closely related to families, family concepts, and homeless, it is reflected.

What it means to find a family and make a white mother a black child - James McBride gives an answer