The Color Of The Water Analysis

In the story of The Color of the Water brings me a lot of memories of my past. But there is only one sentence that touches my life really hard… “I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you 'll be a nobody!” When I saw this quote I remember when I was with my grandmother. She was in her chair, like all days. Nothing different but I saw her very happy, I didn’t know why she was like that. I ask her: “What are you doing grandma?”
She answers me: “Nothing son, I was just thinking about your grandfather.” (He died 10 years ago)
But I knew that she was thinking in something good, because normally when people think about a person that all ready died, they start crying or they get sentimental. …show more content…
Even if he was very sick, he was with his smile, that the thing I love of him, because even in the wrong time or wrong place, he was smiling and he was trying to make me happy every time! Even if we were passing thru a problem, he was always trying to see the good side of the problem. But one day he was working beside me and we were cutting corn a big corn so we have problems to the floor, so he fell in a big hole, I faster call my biggest son, he was running from the other side of the farm, my son take out your grandfather, hi was very sensitive so he was crying for the pian. We went to the doctor, after like 4 hours the doctor came to me and he said : “I have bad news, he broke his ribs and his legs, and I check his breathing and hi is not well, he have just some more days. When I heard that I start crying because I was going to lost my love, my everything, my life. He was everything I need in this life. I was everyday in the hospital with him, I just came back to make food to my sons. By one of the last days of my love, He tells me: “my love, you know that I love you! I just want to tell you that this is when you have to be more throng and be happy like we went all our lives. I know that this is one of my last day, if I don’t see you again, I just want you to let you know that I love You with all my heart. Don’t forget …show more content…
But I spend most of my life with you, so you should be a humble person, that doesn’t care about how is the color of the people, we care about our hearts.
When I heard my grandmother´s story, I was in shock because I didn’t know that. But now I know that I came from a family that do not see the color of the person, or even if your race is different, or even your religion. My grandfather show to all my family to be someone in life with just is a humble