If Ruth saw the journey photo, she would feel connected and reminded of her journey. The image is a sunrise with a man walking down a muddy road. This man is on a journey going somewhere and with this path the journey might be a little difficult. Ruth was also on a journey from silence to her revelation as she was able to free and reveal her past that she had kept hidden for such a long time. Ruth exclaims, “Mind your own business… Leave me alone. You’re a nosy body” (McBride 268). In this quote Ruth is pushing James away by telling him to leave her alone and to mind his own business. Ruth wants to keep her past locked up and she can connect to the image because her journey through life was revealing her past that she had kept locked up because
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In the image are two public school where one is organized and looks clean while the other is falling apart and dirty. The cleaner school represented whites while the dirty school represented blacks. Ruth would be reminded of the sad separation of blacks from whites. Ruth was excluded as a white women living in a black neighborhood during the black power movements and in this picture all she would be able to see in the image is separation. When James asks he if he is black or white she responds with, “You’re a human being...it doesn’t matter what color you are” (McBride 92). In this quote Ruth didn’t’ like to see the separation of people by their color, so when James asked him if he was black or white she didn’t want him to care about the color of hid skin. This image would make Ruth upset because she never liked thing of skin color as two different categorizes and in the image there is a clear difference separating the blacks from the whites. James would also feel upset seeing this image because of the unfair treatment he received being stereotyped as a black person and the horrible treatment to people in his family and neighborhood. James revels, “On open house nights, the question most often asked by my school teachers was, ‘Is James adopted’” (McBride 23). In this quote James discusses how every ne assumed he was adopted because his mother was white. This shows how no body paired white and blacks together and how they were though of differently. James would be upset to see the image because the blacks were stereotyped as a dirty place in the image and James would be upset to see how different they made the blacks from whites and how they stereotyped the blacks into a junky and dirty place while the whites were in a clean and great
In the image are two public school where one is organized and looks clean while the other is falling apart and dirty. The cleaner school represented whites while the dirty school represented blacks. Ruth would be reminded of the sad separation of blacks from whites. Ruth was excluded as a white women living in a black neighborhood during the black power movements and in this picture all she would be able to see in the image is separation. When James asks he if he is black or white she responds with, “You’re a human being...it doesn’t matter what color you are” (McBride 92). In this quote Ruth didn’t’ like to see the separation of people by their color, so when James asked him if he was black or white she didn’t want him to care about the color of hid skin. This image would make Ruth upset because she never liked thing of skin color as two different categorizes and in the image there is a clear difference separating the blacks from the whites. James would also feel upset seeing this image because of the unfair treatment he received being stereotyped as a black person and the horrible treatment to people in his family and neighborhood. James revels, “On open house nights, the question most often asked by my school teachers was, ‘Is James adopted’” (McBride 23). In this quote James discusses how every ne assumed he was adopted because his mother was white. This shows how no body paired white and blacks together and how they were though of differently. James would be upset to see the image because the blacks were stereotyped as a dirty place in the image and James would be upset to see how different they made the blacks from whites and how they stereotyped the blacks into a junky and dirty place while the whites were in a clean and great