The second portion of the chapter is McBride’s story, which includes both insight into his mother and also his mixed racial and cultural ways. He wrote The Color of Water in chronological order to enhance the reader’s awareness of McBride’s, his mother’s, and his family’s growth and development. The dedication of The Color of Water reads, “I wrote this book for my mother, and her mother, and mothers everywhere,”. Throughout, McBride shares how his unique mother faced many struggles throughout her life. Although she was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family, she married a black man, and then went on the raise all her children as Christians.
As Mary’s brother Laurie ran way from home after the clash with their father Calvin Pye, their mother got sick. Since Calvin was very irritated with his children, life was somewhat lonely for Mary which eventually forced her to get close to Matt. An excerpt from novel as narrated by Kat can exemplify how solitude contributed in fabricating the bond between Kate and Matt: “Mrs Pye was in a really serious state that summer, and that worry about her, coming on top of everything else, was more than Marie could bear alone. So she turned for comfort to matt. If she’d had more friends, or if her mother had had family living near, or if Calvin hadn’t alienated the whole community … then maybe Marie would not have needed to turn so hard, so appealingly to Matt.
Summary of the book This book follows the neglect and abuse of Katie and is told in story format for parts of the book. Hughes gives a commentary at the end of each chapter on his thoughts of the issues of how each stage of abuse affects not only Katie’s development but also how it was affecting her mother Sally as well. After Katie is placed into foster care the story details the two different sides that Katie shows her foster parents. She goes from being a happy child when things go her way into an aggressive and mean child who wants to get even by destroying other peoples possessions. Katie’s caseworker struggles to find a foster home for her and to find the right therapist to help her with her lack of attachment to anyone.
In “Shiloh” by Bobbie Ann Mason, we are introduced to 34-year-old Norma Jean and Leroy Moffit, A married couple since the age of 18. The story portrays a dysfunctional marriage, caused by the death of their newborn infant Randy. Now 16 years later, Norma is finally going through changes that enable her to find herself. Which inevitably causes the end of her marriage. We observe these changes in her, as she tries to improve herself, her unhappiness with Leroy’s constant presence, and her inability to communicate with Leroy.
This has caused Aiden to harbor a great deal of anxiety and resentment against his father. Aiden’s mother works full time and is also going to school full time in order to complete a bachelor’s degree. Because of this Aiden spends a significant amount of time being cared for by his grandmother. His grandmother resents Aiden’s mother and father because they were not married when they had him. She has expressed this opinion on several occasions.
Seventeen years later, when he comes face to face with his daughter, he is shocked then confused and angry about the situation. He later tells Josie that he had a lot of problems back then and even if he had known about the pregnancy he may not have come back to help Christina. He appears as the independent, successful barrister. At first he says to Christina he wants nothing to do with Josie but when Christina tells him to go and forget them both, he doesn’t. Looking for Alibrandi conveys belonging in a negative way at the start of the novel as Josie feels like she doesn’t belong with her family and with the people at school. She’s still trying to discover her cultural identity and she’s in confusion about where she stands in life and who she belongs to.
“She is a part of a past that cannot be recovered or changed by anything I can do now. My father always told me that it was my birth that robbed her of her sanity. So as a child I had to carry the weight of my mother's madness as something that was my own doing.” (Davies 148) Paul had believed his whole life that Mary's insanity was caused by his birth, and once the truth came out, Paul was no longer guilty. The lift of guilt allowed him to feel again, something he was not able to do for a very long time. After the truth is learned about Mary
James McBride writes The Color of Water as a dedication to his mother and his own life. McBride speaks of the many hardships he and his family went through in order to make it where they are today. James McBride talks about the power of race in his house and how it affects him and his siblings in their everyday lives. With the idea of race being so prominent in his upbringing, we would tend to think that the notion of race is one that must be looked at from all angles in order to make sense of his life. However, McBride describes race as such a powerful force that it becomes ignorable.
With that being said, the main effects of Ma’s unfortunate abduction result in seven long years of being held captive, Ma’s trauma and phases of depression which lead her to suicidal attempts, and most importantly, both a stumbling block and advantage, the bearing of her only son, Jack. Jack thinks there are “thousands of things to do” in Room. We know that for his mother it is a very different story. Although the story never shifts to her point of view, we understand the significance of her moods in a way that the innocent child telling the story can not. We feel her desperation and her sense that time is running out.
He shunned Emily from society and forbade anyone to see or even meet her. This attitude was very detrimental to Emily and her overall well-being. As you can see, Emily became dependent of her father. She had little to no access to the outside world. As the story continues, the