The Maze Runner When you feel that you don’t have the freedom that you dream about, or even the freedom that you deserve, because of religious beliefs, society mentality or sexual abuse; you will work hard to get back your freedom even if the whole world stands in front of your face. In this way you will feel that you are a runner in a maze, where you run and run and run and every place you reach the world builds a wall in your face. But since you want your freedom so bad you will continue looking for a way in which you can break these walls and escape this maze to be free. In the novel The Color of Water by James McBride, Ruth described herself as a “Runner type person” (McBride 42). Such a characteristic reveals many things about Ruth’s
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The sexual abuse by her father creates a girl with “very low self-esteem” (43) who can’t face any problems. Also living in a place where she can’t talk to anyone except the family members, where the communication between them is demolished, creates a feeling of unfairness inside Ruth. The idea of being under the sexual abuse and the life style pressure lead this young lady to start looking for a way to relax and forget about all these stuff. So in order to satisfy herself, she runs in every available chance, because her running will relief her and make her feel that she is alive again. The feeling of being “stuck and trapped in a place” (42) and under certain rules make her feels like she is in a jail –where her family took her freedom from her- …show more content…
She can’t face her problems, especially those that the society created. The first problem that she escaped from was when she got pregnant by Peter. Her mom “saw [that she] was unhappy” (129) ;so she helped her to run from her problems by sending her to New York, because it is far away from the Judaism and the strict rules not like in Suffolk. The second escape was when she married Dennis-the black guy- . By doing such an action she stands in front of the society rules and objections that are based on racism. Even though the black and the white still can’t get married in New York, she didn’t care; she ran from the society by “[living with Dennis] as husband and wife” (196). She also ignores all the comments that she heard from the black society after that. Breaking all the rules and running away with such a crime is Ruth’s hobby and her way to face the problems. The description that Ruth gave to herself as a runner reveals that Ruth is trying to find the missing piece of her. She tries to run away from her problems because she doesn’t have the courage to face them. Also she is looking for a way to escape the maze of the life and get back her freedom. I believe that the description of that Ruth gave to herself, shows the lack of freedom that she experienced in her
The sexual abuse by her father creates a girl with “very low self-esteem” (43) who can’t face any problems. Also living in a place where she can’t talk to anyone except the family members, where the communication between them is demolished, creates a feeling of unfairness inside Ruth. The idea of being under the sexual abuse and the life style pressure lead this young lady to start looking for a way to relax and forget about all these stuff. So in order to satisfy herself, she runs in every available chance, because her running will relief her and make her feel that she is alive again. The feeling of being “stuck and trapped in a place” (42) and under certain rules make her feels like she is in a jail –where her family took her freedom from her- …show more content…
She can’t face her problems, especially those that the society created. The first problem that she escaped from was when she got pregnant by Peter. Her mom “saw [that she] was unhappy” (129) ;so she helped her to run from her problems by sending her to New York, because it is far away from the Judaism and the strict rules not like in Suffolk. The second escape was when she married Dennis-the black guy- . By doing such an action she stands in front of the society rules and objections that are based on racism. Even though the black and the white still can’t get married in New York, she didn’t care; she ran from the society by “[living with Dennis] as husband and wife” (196). She also ignores all the comments that she heard from the black society after that. Breaking all the rules and running away with such a crime is Ruth’s hobby and her way to face the problems. The description that Ruth gave to herself as a runner reveals that Ruth is trying to find the missing piece of her. She tries to run away from her problems because she doesn’t have the courage to face them. Also she is looking for a way to escape the maze of the life and get back her freedom. I believe that the description of that Ruth gave to herself, shows the lack of freedom that she experienced in her