Similies on the color of water

The simile that James McBride utilizes to express the emotions that ran through his body once his mother told the family they were staying in New York, expresses the violence that McBride was exposed to as a young child. This shows a reason why James McBride might have wanted his mother to move away from New York. McBride thought that New York had too much trouble occurring within the city to raise a family. He compares the news of his mother to remain living in New York to a grenade being thrown because McBride wanted to express the chaos that was surrounding the city. James McBride knew that the family would be destroyed if the remained living in New York.