Essay Topic #2
In the story The Color of Water, there were a couple of different ways as to how James developed as a person. Some of these ways were his relationship with Hunter, His experiments with drugs and crime, His time spent in Louisville, and him and his family moving to Delaware. James has had a lot of ups and downs in his life. There were things happening to him at some points which made him change into a completely different person than he usually was, and there were things that made him snap out of it, realizing what he was doing was wrong, and changing his self entirely to a new and improved person. Big events happening in a person’s life can either change them for the best or for worse. In James’s case, he experienced both. James had an outstanding relationship with Hunter. Hunter was his new stepdad that his mother Ruth had gotten married to. Hunter was a furnace fireman for New York city and he did anything and everything he could to keep his new family happy. James’s real father died before he was born, so Hunter became like a real father to him. James even acknowledged Hunter as “daddy”. Hunter spent his entire life savings to buy a house for Ruth …show more content…
James had said that he received true street education on the corner. The corner is where Jack’s husband Big Richard and his friends, which are southern working men who hung out on the corner day and night. Chicken Man was James’s favorite local man who also hung out on the corner with Big Richard and his friends. James learned the most from Chicken Man, including street smarts and morals. James asked Chicken Man for a gun and he responded seriously to him. He had recognized Jim’s failures in life and urged James to educate himself and to work hard. Chicken Man helped James’s out a lot and taught him what he thought he needed to know, but he died after having a dispute with a women and she shortly after can back to stab him to
In the story The Color of Water, there were a couple of different ways as to how James developed as a person. Some of these ways were his relationship with Hunter, His experiments with drugs and crime, His time spent in Louisville, and him and his family moving to Delaware. James has had a lot of ups and downs in his life. There were things happening to him at some points which made him change into a completely different person than he usually was, and there were things that made him snap out of it, realizing what he was doing was wrong, and changing his self entirely to a new and improved person. Big events happening in a person’s life can either change them for the best or for worse. In James’s case, he experienced both. James had an outstanding relationship with Hunter. Hunter was his new stepdad that his mother Ruth had gotten married to. Hunter was a furnace fireman for New York city and he did anything and everything he could to keep his new family happy. James’s real father died before he was born, so Hunter became like a real father to him. James even acknowledged Hunter as “daddy”. Hunter spent his entire life savings to buy a house for Ruth …show more content…
James had said that he received true street education on the corner. The corner is where Jack’s husband Big Richard and his friends, which are southern working men who hung out on the corner day and night. Chicken Man was James’s favorite local man who also hung out on the corner with Big Richard and his friends. James learned the most from Chicken Man, including street smarts and morals. James asked Chicken Man for a gun and he responded seriously to him. He had recognized Jim’s failures in life and urged James to educate himself and to work hard. Chicken Man helped James’s out a lot and taught him what he thought he needed to know, but he died after having a dispute with a women and she shortly after can back to stab him to