The Color Of Water Analysis

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Ruth Experienced many hardships throughout her life coming up and throughout adulthood. It’s something called that many will say she endured as much hurt as the day is long, but in reality it’s quite frankly realistic situations. Situations that break you or make a person strong by the perception of life after those harsh treatments of torment. The Color of Water was a book of hidden secrets that caused readers to trance into a dark mindset, but also understanding how things were through her eyes. Understanding all ominous feelings that ruth experienced throughout her life versus certain alienation while living in Suffolk Virginia. Her family went off to sit shiva for her, because she was dead to them. A lot of harsh repercussions can happen …show more content…
“You’re out so stay out of the family. Stay out. We sat Shiva for you. You can’t see her” ( A Bird WHo Flies,P216) Not only did they call Shiva for her but she was alive while all of this went on. Which in reality left readers to ponder the loyalty and love her family had for her. All just because she went off to marry a black man and was on the road to happiness or was she? Her father shunned her, sister slammed a door in front of her, she was dead to them, an non existent entity that walked the earth in shame and guilt for all the sorry’s she didn’t say.Just to find out Mameh died because she left Suffolk, which was why her father was trying so hard to make her stay because she kept his “wife” alive and well, of all what little time she had left. Basically ruth was the key to holding the family together from mameh, but since she left; everyone seemed to have died even though they sat shiva for her. Her jew side died, and she buried it inside her with little to no grief for her sorrow just screams of guilt from her abyss. An echoing silence of darkness.Ruth was reborn a christian to have a chance at another life with different blessings and different hardships, but the same haunting