Color of Water: The Blue Bicycle!

In the book color of water then major symbol is the blue bicycle. This symbol is really important because this bicycle portrays most of Ruth's characteristics. This symbol is the central thing that go with the characters.

          The blue bicycle is a symbol that plays an important role in Ruth's life. After her second husband died, Ruth began the habit of riding her bicycle through the neighborhood in which James and his family lived. To James, this bicycle symbolized her quirkiness and his consequent embarrassment. James had always sensed his mother was "different." James gained an intimate knowledge of his mother and began to understand her as a fellow adult rather than as a son.

          The author comes to view the bicycle as symbolic of his mother's difference. The bicycle also comes to represent Ruth's desire to move forward and an escape from reality. His mother kept her twelve children constantly active so that they would learn how to be productive members of society.

           This is how the blue bicycle is very special in this memoir. This symbolizes grief. She felt some kind of a feeling riding the bicycle that was gifted to her by someone really special.

The Color of Water

The Color water is a story by James McBride. The story is the author's personal life. This memoir has  two main characters which is James McBride and Ruth. James is the author and main narrator of the memoir, he is artistically inclined. Like his mother, he places significant emphasis on his Christian faith and on family unity. As a young man, he expresses his confusion by succumbing to drugs and crime. Later, he becomes diligent and determined.

               The mother, Ruth also plays an important role in this story. She is the central figure of the memoir. she is the big-hearted mother of James and eleven other children. A Polish Jewish immigrant, she is spiritual, intelligent, determined, practical, and brave. She stresses the importance of work, school, and God. She chose an unconventional life, and succeeds in it because she has the grit and conviction to endure hardships. She doesn't talk to anybody.

               These are the two main characters of this memoir. These two characters have a lot of interactions between each other. They play central characters in this memoir and are the main characters who get involved in something or the other.They both are spiritual. They both have two different perspectives in the memoir.