When Ruth Is Dead At The End Of Chapter Six

Ruth was capricious when she was at the Cottages, often belittling and ignoring Kathy and Tommy. However, she has the capacity to be caring and generous. For example, Ruth gives Tommy and Kathy Madame's address, which demonstrates her hopefulness in them being able to get a

in the Bible. In the book of Ruth when her family members die she chooses to stay by her

In the beginning of the book, Elimelech, Mahlon, Chilion and Naomi are introduced. They move to Moab to live because in their homeland there was famine.When they are in Moab, Elimelech, Mahlon, and Chilion die. Naomi, after hearing that the famine had lifted, set out back to Judah. She says to them “Go back, each of you, to your mother’s home.” and Orpah leaves. Ruth stays and when Naomi tells her to go back, she says “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.”. Naomi realizes that Ruth was determined to go with her, and they both continue to Judah.

In Chapter 15 (Graduation) of The Color of Water, Ruth reveals how her period of being young was cut short due to falling in prohibited love. Despite all the hostility Ruth is receiving from the outsiders she continues to complete high school. After returning to Suffolk to finish the rest of high school she visited Peter, Ruth’s first boyfriend. Since Peter and Ruth shared a genuinely close relationship she insisted on meeting him. Ruth explains that Peter conveyed he still had feelings for Ruth during their encounter. Although, as Ruth was at work she overheard an unfamiliar person say Peter and another black women were conceiving a child and he was going to wed her due to the accidental pregnancy. In Chapter 16 (Driving) Ruth has a difficult

This passage talks about how Ruth’s father, Tateh, ran a household. He did’nt show any love to his wife or kids but he put them to work. Sam got so upset about having to work in his Tateh’s store that he ran away. Running a household is a very important factor to Ruth and James. Ruth tends to run a very strict household with grades and if they don’t listen to Ruth they get punished by a belt. Ruth’s household tactics are similar to her Tateh but she shows love for them too. Ruth would even put a king or queen in charge over their siblings. In this passage, Mcbride is describing how Ruth and her siblings hated being treated as slaves to their Tateh. This also relates to what James and his siblings go through. Some of the siblings such as Helen

The age appropriate for this book might be Elementary third and fourth grade students. The cover page symbolizes African American being treated unfairly in situations. The author, Calvin Ramsey is an African American who grew up in many states. He has an interest in traveling and lived in many places. Outside of writing, he has three children who are also famous in writing. On the inside of the book, there is a side note about a summary of what to expect the story to discuss. Also, it lets the reader know what type of book it is and what historical events take place.

Ruth acts the way she does because since she’s left Suffolk at a young age she had wanted to leave her old life behind herself and thus had begun to start a new life with Dennis. Which then she was basically shunned and disowned by her family even though she had an unbiased opinion of black people, Ruth decided to stay with Dennis and endure the hardships of an interracial couple in a time of Civil Rights movements. Then as Dennis passed away Ruth had become a hardened, adamant woman who’s unaffected to the judgment of others and chooses to not divulge her past to her

Between the roles of the two woman, it is apparent that Ruth’s role is more favorable in the eyes of characters

“I don’t care about anything”. Nevertheless, Butler asked the principal to allow him to utilize a restorative approach with Tommy instead of suspending him. The utilization of the restorative approach allowed the school coordinator to discover the real reason Tommy was frustrated. Although his anger was directed towards the teacher and school officials Tommy was inundated because he was forced to take care of his siblings for three days as a result of his mother’s drug relapse.

During her career as a pediatric nurse, she became very connected with a patient who happened to be her first death encounter. At the time, the patient was a six-year-old boy who was diagnosed with leukemia. ML said: "When I was caring for this patient, I was a mother myself. Seeing that boy and his family suffer gave me so much heartache… it was hard not to make it personal." The more she worked with this child, she observed the pain and suffering him and his family had to go through. She also learned about him and the family dynamics which enabled ML to help the patient and the family become well involved in understanding one another and guide care towards an agreement that everyone was satisfied with. As I reached for the tissue box to hand it to her, I rephrased the story to confirm the understanding of the story. She nodded and continued on talking about things she has done for the patient. Being a mother and a nurse, she believed in providing this child with what a healthy boy would be doing at his age. ML's strategies involved promoting short physical activities, playing games, and encouraging the parents to participate in such activities if possible; ML wanted to provide a lighter atmosphere around the unit and help the patient disregard the diagnosis even if it was just for a little while. Over the past few months, she continued to assist this patient as his

In the last chapter of the novel, Ruth May is responding to her mother in the first chapter. Orleanna is ridden with guilt in the first chapter and Ruth May in the last chapter is telling her mother that she forgives her, and that she should forgive herself too. Ruth May tells her to “Move on. Walk forward into the light.” She also says that being dead is not worse than being alive; in fact, her view is larger. Another thing Ruth May mentions is that “Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history. Even the child Ruth May touched history. Everyone is complicit. The okapi complied by living, and the spider by dying. It would have lived if it could.” Ruth May does not see it as a “ruin” but as something that is a part

The reader would have understood that Mia is hooked up to machines to help her live rather than describing what went on in the operating room. There are many horrid details describing Mia’s injuries “I have a collapsed lung, a ruptured spleen, internal bleeding of an unknown origin. ”(40). It also talks about how she will need skin grafts and cosmetic surgery, which I feel was

After he is seen by one of the nurses, the nurse describes

was a burden for her friends and family staying alive in her condition. She recovered from this

In Chapter 7 of the novel, Kathy’s memories, “treasure” her attitude to her memories of Hailsham. Kathy regarded the experiences at Hailsham as positive encounters. This showed that she accepted her past life and wanted to embrace the future. Therefore, that is why she wants to preserve her memories of Hailsham. However, Ruth at first is still at the stage of denial since she does not want to reconcile her present life with memories of Hailsham.