an early age. They open up emotional wounds that aren't easy to heal and determine

what kind of a person you are bound to be. People are faced with many conflicts

throughout their lives, some are worse than others. How they chose to deal with them

plays a great impact on their future. In The Color of Water, Ruth McBride was faced

with both physical and mental abuse from her father. She escaped it by running away

Ruth's father was a religious man, a rabbi. He preached at the synagogue and taught

the Bible in school. Behind closed doors, he was a violent and cruel man who broke

the law of God and violated his own daughter. Ruth said, "My father did things to me

when I was a young girl that I couldn't tell anyone about. Such as getting in bed with me

at night and doing things to me sexually." Any time her father had a chance he would

Ruth felt afraid and betrayed, but she had no one to turn to. Ruth said, "I dreaded him

and I was relieved anytime he left the house." She had no love for her father at all. What

"He taught me about things I'd never heard of," she says. He taught her about religion,

tried to push her around, because it made her nervous. Fears of being trapped by

Ruth's father didn't allow her to have any friends, her whole childhood revolved

What he did to her affected her in a lot of ways. Growing up Ruth had a very low self-

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