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A 2.5 page paper which compares and contrast the novel and son of this autobiographical tale. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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text alternates between Ruths recollections of her amazing but difficult journey as an Orthodox Jew in Poland, to a racist American South and finally to spiritual contentment in New Yorks
Harlem district and her grown sons candid commentary on his turbulent search for an identity that was based more on race than on character content. Although the mother and
sons life experiences had been vastly different, they ultimately intertwined to form a strong singular thread of complementary contrasts. Both mother and son had struggled valiantly to find themselves
and to finally feel comfortable within their own respective skins. Ruths extraordinary story begins rather matter-of-factly, as she states, "I was born an Orthodox Jew on April 1, 1921, April
Fools Day, in Poland. I dont remember the name of the town where I was born, but I do remember my Jewish name: Ruchel Dwajra Zylska. My parents
got rid of that name when we came to America and changed it to Rachel Deborah Shilsky, and I got rid of that name after I left Virginia for good
in 1941. She had to die in order for me, the rest of me, to live" (McBride 1-2). She left the South and its prejudices behind to escape
the sexual abuse of her father, a one-time rabbi turned shopkeeper, whose racism found a permanent home in Suffolk County. When Ruth settled in New York, she met and
married an African-American minister Andrew Dennis McBride and helped him establish his Baptist church while bearing him eight children, the last of whom, son James, was born after his death.
Ruth remarried another black man, mechanic Hunter Jordan, and understood all too well the obstacles that her children would have to overcome to gain social acceptance in white mans
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