Post #7: The Color of Water by James McBride

Hello everyone! It has been quite some time since I posted something, so here we go! For the past week or two I have been reading The Color of Water by James McBride. This book is about a young boy who has a white mother and a black father during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's. I am absolutely LOVING this book! My class is reading it as a whole, so right now we are supposed to be on chapter 18-20, where as I am already on chapter 22, but hey! That means less homework for me! One of the reasons why I am enjoying this book so much us because it teaches you some things that you never would have really considered. It gives you a different perspective on life really. I have highlighted, underlined, annotated, and noted until I am blue in the face! One of the lines from The Color of Water that really caught my eye and made me think was this one on page 63, (I am using the e-Reader version on my iPad so my page numbers are different from that of the paperback book,) "Yet conflict was a part of our lives, written into our very faces, hands and arms, and to see how contradiction lived and survived in its own essence, we had to look no farther than our own mother," (McBride 63). I think this particular line stuck out to me so much because everyday I see how people are different, yet very much alike in multiple ways. This quote is saying that because the children were all half white half black, they were living conflict of the events going on during that time period. The line is also saying that because the mother is white but is married to a black man, she is a living contradiction within herself. Overall, I am really enjoying this book, a lot more than I thought I would to be completely honest. I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone, as long as they are mature enough to handle certain adult conflict within the book. I encourage you to look into The Color of Water. Bye bye for now!