The Color of Water: When Tragedy Strikes No one has a perfect life. Throughout one’s life there are many obstacles. Depending on how one chooses to deal with such obstacles, their affect can range from strikingly nocuous, to unexpectedly beneficial. In some situations, however, these obstacles are so overwhelming that one cannot help but be detrimentally affected. As Poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once said, into each life some rain must fall. In James McBride’s The Color of Water, Ruth has enough rain in her life to fashion a great deluge. Due to the prejudice she experiences, the death of her mother, and the death of her two beloved husbands, Ruth becomes increasingly emotionally unstable. As a young girl, Ruth lives in a southern town called Suffolk, in which Jews are looked down upon. People laugh at her as she walks down the stre....

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