If You Throw Water Analysis

The society we live in is often judged and discriminating people for being different or out of the ordinary. Although James and his mother, Ruth had two different perspectives on the world, she taught him not to worry about the superficial items in life. No amount of rasicism or money can change who he is, he is a human being just like everybody else. People often don't see that as long as the education and mindset someone has its outstanding, their life will be the best that it could ever be. We have to realize that if everyone viewed every area of the human existence clearly and neutrally the. We would have far less controversy. Ultimately people tend to focus on the least important parts of a person and automatically discriminate one's beliefs, identity, and life.

Society has people set on changing who they are based on the idea that they are outcasts.

James never understood why he and his family were different, people shamed his mother for being white with mixed children. The author portrays this in the best way possible when he states that, “They are all trying hard to be an American, you know… If you throw water on the floor it will always find a hole, believe me” (Mcbride, 195). Somehow or someway people will always find themselves again, people cannot cover up what they are. By evidently enjoying the life that people are given, no amount of money nor effort to try to change will be worth anything if they don't have love in their hearts. The author asserts, “They don't have a dime in their pocket and they're always laughing” (Mcbride, 61). He helps understand anybody intend to make a person feel less of themselves, but if someone has no concern for anything but containing how they are, the love and bond a family has without any of that makes it that much more

special.
When James was younger, he could not fully understand the events of the 1960s. The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements manifested themselves in his sibling's behavior, sometimes resulting in conflict between his mother Ruth and her children. Questioning the authority they came up against issues of their own identities as biracial members of society, later James struggled with the same issues. Racism affected them, but it got them to comprehend that they are human no matter what anyone has to say, in society they were equal. The concept of their struggle was based on the community. When the author conveys that, “The vision offered to Americans is that everyone in the world will be equal” (Fancher, 2009). Although the circumstances were quite the opposite of what they envisioned, equality was never an acceptance of all people it was a simple theory yet to be perfected. The author also illustrates that, “ … Racial discrimination and repression remain a significant factor in American life” (Fancher, 2009). Despite the liberation, they got very much isolated with no justification. Racism was brought to their attention, but was basically oppressed by still remaining around the world.
One can be accepted if all people, even after enduring so much ignorance and hate, Ruth told her son that, “God’s not black. He's not white. He's a spirit… God is the color of water. He loves all people” (Mcbride, 130). After James has a series of questions revolving around the idea that God loves one ethnicity over another. The combination of views from Ruth and James proves that one can overcome challenges and one can still be compassionate. Although it is a time period where different races and religions weren't accepted none if that affected the way they treated others. The author states that, “African Americans in southern states inhabited a starkly unequal world of segregation… Including race inspired violence” (Garraty, 2014). When the author states this he is implying that it not only became a problem of separation, but turned into a world of much greater violence. Ruth died in the eyes of their community for loving and marrying a black man, the black community on the other hand wholeheartedly embraced Ruth. The way people are raised can either change people see the true meaning of life or change them in the same mentality everyone else adapts to.
There may be laws that prohibit discrimination, but to this day the community remains the same with minor adjustments. Black rights movements are the reason it has got that much more enhanced throughout the years. Although many people still have different opinions toward other races or religions. While growing up James McBride never knew where his mother has come from, triggering a long-standing confusion about his own racial identity by showing us his mother and his past, he offered us the opportunity in the life of a woman and a family that suffered greatly and triumphed transcending divisions of race, made religion in favor of love, family, friendship, and community. Power that bridge the basic human desire to understand how another has come to be the way they are.