The Color of Water: Part 2

After 18 chapters, I'm starting to kind of like The Color of Water. I've enjoyed his mother's story about 12 hundred times more than his, and I'm not quite sure why. I feel that his story in this book is supposed to be about racial hardships that he's faced, but nothing's been that extreme, or even worth telling, to me. He has more of a problem with his mother being white than he does with himself being black. His mother's story, however, has captured me. Both he and his mother faced racial persecution at some point or another, but he had a loving family at home to help support him, and she didn't. The one part that really bothered me however was the abortion. She talked a lot about her Christian transformation, and I was hoping she'd realize what a mistake she had made to abort the baby in the same way. I found it bizarre that she never said she regretted that decision or how it later effected her because I don't think there's any way to go through that and not have it deeply effect you. Her independence in leaving her family and moving away was great to see though. Especially for a woman in that time, that had to be hard to do, and I have to give props to that. In all honesty, I have no idea how this book is going to end, but I'm actually anticipating finishing it.