The Color of Water-Week 5, Post B

Dear James,
I sincerely enjoyed your memoir. You are a talented writer who really has a knack for appealing to the reader. There were so many emotions and events that I was able to relate to, or just understand because of your detail and feeling. I think it is quite honorable to write about your mother because it was actually beneficial to you to write this memoir. You learned about a side of your mother who you never saw. It's incredible that you lived with her your whole life and you were never given insight into this seperate life of your mother's. Clearly, you stuggled with an identity crisis for most of your life, being of mixed races. I believe that you experienced a great deal of self-acceptance when you were finally allowed into your mother's past. Even though your mother stressed all through your upbringing that you musn't identify yourself and others by race, you seemed to have great difficulty ignoring this controversial subject. Race, especially between blacks and whites, was a hot-button issue in your day. You had a father who was black and a mother who was white. That was uncommon back then. I can understand your confusion. That is why I think it was so important for you to write this memoir. You wrote about yourself AND your mother, and connecting the two was a smart move. This memoir is an inspiration to any child struggling with an identity crisis. It is important to know about your past before you can make decisions about your future.

Thank you for writing this fascinating memoir.

Sincerely,
Emily