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ESL 106

The Color of Water Chapter 5-6

February 19, 2013

 

I. Reading Circle: Summarizer

In Chapter 5, Ruth describes her family and her terrible childhood life. When she lived in Suffolk, Virginia, there were sign of racial discrimination. Suffolk folks were not tolerable to Jews. Thus, Ruth had to be teased by her school kids. This remained as a hurt to Ruth. Her father had a chance to run a store. Although Ruth didn’t have any family life, she thought the store was her life. Her mother was very good house wife and mother, but she was overall ill. Her husband often ignored her and even teased her. Ruth’s hobby was running because her another bad memory was sexually treated by her father. She needed any places to free herself of her father. It made Ruth have a very low self-esteem and she had to suffer from this terrible memory for a long time. Chapter 6 shows that Ruth’s sincerity for God and James and his brother Richie’s confusion for God. James’ mother went to church each and every Sunday. When James saw her mom weeping, James asked his mother why she had been crying. Ruth told him that God makes her happy. He asked another question to Ruth, “What color is God’s spirit?” Ruth explained that God doesn’t’ have any color and it’s like the color of water. Richie also asked similar question to Rev. Owens, “Is Jesus white?” holding the picture of Jesus. When the minister did not give a reasonable answer to Richie, he did not go to church after that. (249 words)

 

II. Vocabulary

Ch. 5 and 6

1. He wasn’t any different from the rest of those scoundrels you see on TV today except he preached in

synagogues…

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● to behave very badly toward other people, especially by cheating them or deceiving them

● noun; scoundrelism (n.), scoundrelly (adj.)

● rogue

 

2. … with food and a place to stay and their cast-off clothes.(Eng.)

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● ones which someone no longer uses because they are old or unfashionable, and which they give to

someone else or throw away

● noun; (no other forms)

● hand-me-down (Amer.)

 

3. let’s face it, he was a lousy rabbi.

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● very bad quality or to dislike it

● adjective; lousiness (n.), lousily (adv.)

● awful, terrible

 

4. She would darn socks.

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● to mend a hole in something by sewing stitches across the hole and then weaving stitches in and out

of them

● verb; darner (n.), darn (adj.), darn (adv.)

● mend, damn

 

5. Not a crumb of speck of leavened bread could be found anywhere.

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● fermented flour or bread

● noun; leavenless (adj.), leaven (v.)

● lighten, pepsinate, raise, yeast, malt, add, ferment

 

 

6. … and even now I don’t want to be around anyone who is domineering or pushing me around…

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● to act with arrogance or tyranny; behave imperiously

● verb; (no other forms)

● dominate, push around, oppress

 

7. Of course it wasn’t torment twenty-four hours a day being a Jew.

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● extreme suffering, usually mental suffering

● noun; tormented (adj.), tormentedly (adv.)

● anguish, plague, vex, pester

 

8. He’d sit behind his pulpit in a spiritual trance,…

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● a small raised platform with a rail or barrier around it in a church, where a member of the clergy

stands to speak

● noun; (no other forms)

● podium, desk, stage