Character Analysis

   The title of the book means that no one should be judged by the color of their skin. Color is something that has no meaning cause equality is our number content.

    What has no color meaning that we are all the same inside, people aren't just a skin color. As the saying goes, beauty is more than just skin deep. We are all the same, when you take away the skin color you have all of the same thing. We all have eyes, nose, mouth, arms, legs, etc.

        There was in chapter in the story where one of Ruth's sons walks up to her and asks her what color God is, and Ruth tells him that God is the color of water, meaning that he is any color you want him to be because he has no real color. No one is just a skin color, we are who we choose to be. We act the way we choose to act. Do not judge people by the color of their skin or the color of their hair or other physical features, judge a person on their character, who they are as a person. I would like to be seen more as just a color, wouldn't you?

    Rachel was born on April 1,1921.April 1st is known as April fools day here. In Rachel's house she is the youngest of 12 in her house. Rachel's real name was Ruchel Dezearh Saskly. Her name was then changed to Rachel Deboeah Shilsky. This happened when she first came to America in August 23, 1923.

        Rachel always seemed to love her mother the most because she was always around her unlike her father who was a traveling rabbi, his name is Fisher Shilsky. Rachels family was mixed with black, white and Jewish, she lived in a area which ther were Klu Klux Klan which made the neighborhood a scary place to live all the time. Especially when it was time to go to school because she was separated from the gentile and the whites just because of the color of her skin. Her and her family got rid of their Jewish names when they came to America. She left Virginia for good in 1941 when she was 19.

        Her father's name was Fishel Shilsky and he was an Orthodox rabbi that was short, dark, and hairy. He wore a white shirt black pants and a tallies on his shirtsleeve. Her father was a very tough person to live with. He had escaped from the Russian army and crossed the Polish border and married Ruchel's mother in an arranged marriage. Ruchel's mother name was Hudis she was the exact opposite of her father she was gentle and meek. She was born in 1896 in Dobryzn, Poland. Ruchel Dwajra Zylska felt as if she had to die if she was to begin a new life.