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1. This book has helped me realize that I am still someone that has little to no knowledge of what the outside world really is. This book has helped me realized that the adult world is bigger than I initially thought it was and the problems are way bigger than it seems. I learned that despite the fact of where you come from there are people that are struggling more than you are right now. You should always be thankful for what you have in life and cherish the moments you have with family everyday because you never know when you are going to lose them, or might not see them again. I also learned that you should always stay close contact with your family because they will always be there to support you no matter what.

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8. The characters emotions and behaviors can reveal a lot about their psychological states. In chapter 19, Ruth was asked to go back home because her mom was very sick and her dad needed help with the shop. She had to leave her own family behind and go back to her old one. While she was there she experienced a chaotic mess where her father would divorce with her mom but her mom would not agree with it but the dad still did it anyways. Her sister even noticed her actions, she noticed that she would leave and made Ruth promise that she would but in the end she still did. She was very fed up with her family that even her own family noticed how she was going to react with everything that has been happening in their household.

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2. How do economic conditions determine the characters' lives?

Ruth was not born into a wealthy family though she had Aunts and Uncles that were very successful in New York, owning businesses. Ruth worked for her Aunt in a factory while her cousins just sat around all day getting everything handed to them. She had to leave the factory job to find a better paying job so she went around Harlem looking for a new job. At first it led her nowhere but she found salons and barber shops that hired people that can cut hair and or manicure, do nails. Where there she met a guy that bought her an apartment where she could live in because she is going from her grandmothers house to the work which is very far. It almost made her look like a prostitute but before it could even happen she left the guy to go back to her old life because she realize what she was doing. Economic conditions can have a big change in a persons life.

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Ruth had moved to New York because her mom had found out that she was pregnant and wanted her to stay with her grandma. Their family is not close at all, they have their own world, businesses and barely talk to one another. They called us, Mameh’s family, “greenhorns” in Yiddish, because we were the last to get to America and weren’t Americanized, but still I liked to visit (chp 13). This quote caught my eye because as the years go by and we are still living with our aunt that helped us get here in the US I felt like they were also looking down on us. Although they are good people that helped us get a better opportunity in life there were times that I felt like we were looked down upon.

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Social Class

Although Ruth's family was wealthy because their aunts and uncles had a life going for them, owning businesses and apartments in cities, Ruth's family was not as wealthy as them. She had to find jobs so that she could gain money and live. She was also almost became a person that sells their own body but she figured out that it was not right so she left before it could even happen. There are also people out there that are doing the same things because they can't afford their houses and everyday needs. Sometimes it is their only way of surviving because they can't get a proper job that would take them.

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My family is very different from Ruth's family because our family are very close and are always in contact with each other. Especially with my dads side of the family since I grew up with them I know them very well and they know me very well. I am very close to them and are still in contact with them. My mom's family I did barely grew up with because I we were living in the province back in the Philippines with my dad's side of the family. We don't have any issues of contact with any of our family members because we all live close by and some are just a few hours away.

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1. The meaning of the text changes when you reread it because when you read it again the second time you know what the words meant. It can also give you a better understanding of what happened in the story than the first time you read it.

3. People born younger than us that are reading the text probably view this book differently and might have a different opinion on it. Since they are still young, younger than us, they would not have much more knowledge in what is happening in the story with the different social class issues that has been going on throughout the story.

6. The book Color of Water's intended audience are probably the people that have been in the same situations that James family have. Where people are not accepted in their families for how they are and do not agree with their decisions. Which lead to distant relations between one another.

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"He put the fear of God in me"

This quote stood out to me because in my opinion once you fear someone you give them respect. I don't mean the fear in a bad way, in this context the word "fear" means something positive that lead to something good which really caught my attention once I saw it.

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Education

People in different parts of the town where Ruth lives has different school which has different type of ethnicities in. These schools experience different types of education because of the environment of the town they live in. In some areas people do not have the same resources as the ones in areas where rich "white" people live in because of the amount of money that is flowing into those areas. Our character Ruth although not a wealthy family they could still afford a private school which lets her have enough resources for her to have a better education than other people.

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Our family is kind of similar to Ruth's family where we not poor but not also rich. We lived in the province in the Philippines where we are a happy family helping one another because our families are close by to help when we need it. We also shared a difference experience because in our area people are friendly and always nice to you, there was no discrimination with one another. Everyone was close with eachother, we would always be talking about anything and playing during our free time as kids in school.

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"You're out of the family. Stay out. We sat shiva for you" (McBride 216).

This quote stood out to me because Ruth's mother was in the hospital and her family was not letting Ruth see her mother for the last time because they "sat shiva" for her. They basically told her that she was not part of them anymore not even thinking how she was feeling at the time. At the time of reading I felt bad for what they are doing to Ruth because it was not her fault that they did not agree with her decisions back then and now they would not even let the her see the person that raised her whole childhood and taught her everything she knows.

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Choose 3 Formalist Lens Questions to respond to. Your responses should thoroughly respond to the prompt in at least three sentences.

3. In chapter 1 page 2, it states "My family mourned me when I married your father." I think the authors purpose for telling this is for the readers to know how the family felt about the marriage and to show how the character is not really close to their family much.

8. The author changes the font of the story to show the tone and mood in the book The Color of Water. For example "The Old Testament (pg 37) and "The New Testament (pg 45)" are when the authors change the font to show the change of mood.

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Find a quote in this chunk that stood out to you. Please also include a picture or GIF to further describe this quote.

Give context for your quote. What was happening in the story that made this quote significant? Who was speaking?

Why did this quote stand out to you?

"My family mourned me when I married your father." This quote stood out to me because I did not know that people could mourn their family members while they are still alive. The fact that the reason they did this was because she married a Black person which her family did like is outrageous to me. They made their relationship with their daughter more dull when she already did not have a good relationship with them.

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Choose at least one of the following social issues that were present in this reading chunk. Discuss how this social force was present in a characters life. (Your response should be at least 5-6 sentences).

Social Class

Race/Ethnicity

Religion

Education

Culture

Health

Political Landscape

Race/Ethnicity and Religion

James the Daughter of Rachel had asked her mother about her because he knew that she was different from him. He says that him and her mother do not look the same, questioning if she really is the same as him. Rachel the mother of James also had a struggle with her religion. She did not like the way her Jewish family did in their religion so she switched to Christianity when she came to America. Her family would always tell her to hide everything about their life which she also taught her kids because that is how she was raised as a child.

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In what ways was this chunk a window or a mirror? Use the following questions to guide your response, but really we want to hear your personal thoughts and reactions to this chunk!

What experiences do you share with the characters?

In what ways is your family similar or different from those in the book?

What did you learn about a character or group of people that you have not personally experienced?

A similar experience that I share with the characters of this book is that we also have moved houses a couple of times. We moved houses once in the Philippines and twice here in the United States. My family is kind of similar because we do believe in god and we go to church but we are not very religious I would say. My family and I are also 100% Filipino which is different from the family in the Color of Water because they are a mixed family. I learned that the mom of the author was SA by her father when she was a young girl and they were a very religious family that was not aloud to talk about their life to anybody.

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In my family we are all very close and and would always be together sometimes living with each other. It is very different from Ruth's family especially on my dad's side of the family we always celebrate together and are always there for each other. Some of us even live in the same neighborhood as our other family members and would sometimes have a picnic outside near our houses to eat with each other.