Growth In The Color of Water, by James McBride, James is always trying to learn more and more about his mother. Unsuccessful most of the time in his childhood. He wants to understand the present and future by understanding the past. Both James and Ruth are subject to varying degrees of prejudice in their lives. Ruth endured exclusion and ridicule as a Jew living in the South, and later as a white woman living in …showed first 75 words of 441 total…

…showed last 75 words of 441 total…that my grandmother had not suffered and died for nothing.” Originally, I didn’t think James grew and learned with his mother. Through some going over things I discovered it was mostly growth. As she grew he grew. Her life very much began again with her children. She had to go through many hardships and he learned form her and grew from it. I see the growth as the predominate thing rather than the learning.