Part 1 of Essay
No one has a perfect life. Throughout one’s life there are many obstacles. Depending on how one chooses to deal with such obstacles, their affect can range from strikingly nocuous, to unexpectedly beneficial. In some situations, however, these obstacles are so overwhelming that one cannot help but be detrimentally a ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... changing her name. She explains, “My real name was Rachel, which in Yiddish is Ruckla, which is what my parents called me--but I used the name Ruth around white folk, because it didn’t sound so Jewish ”(80). Ruth’s attempt at acceptance is in vein, however; it never stops the children from teasing her. When Ruth leaves Suffolk and moves in with her black, soon- to- be husband Dennis, intolerance follows her like a hungry dog following the scent of a steak. Dennis and she live in a predominantly black neighbor ....