Color of Water
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In The Color of Water, the most obvious alienated character is the mother. Ruth McBride Jordan is the only white woman with a basketball team of black children in a predominantly black neighborhood. But this isn't the only time that Ruth was an isolated person within society. Even when she was young, Ruth, then known as Rachel, was the only Jew in her high school. Most of the children would make fun of her and tease her to entertain themselves. No one wanted her play with poor Rachel. She was like a virus or a disease that everyone has to get away from or else they would pay with their life. She was literally a loner, loved by no one other than her mother and her sister Dee-Dee. When Rachel left Virginia and headed out to New York, she was once again an isolated figure. She was the one of the few Jews (white) girl through out Harlem...