Essay Archive - The Color of Water: When Tragedy Strikes
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 gr....
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