Throughout life people often change the way they view themselves and life. This is the same case in the Color Of Water especially for Ruth McBride Jordan. Rachel Shilsky, her younger self was able to do every day activity while Ruth McBride left her past and everything behind was unable to do many things. It sates on page 167 "But she had left her past so fare behind that she literally did not know how to drive. Rachel Deborah Shilsky could drive a car and pull a trailer behind it, but Ruth McBride Jordan had never touched a steering wheel before that day in 1973, and you can make on can make a book on it." After making many mistakes after driving for the first time in a while Ruth decided she would never drive again and calls quits. The Rachel who could pull a trailer behind her with it full of wholesale supplies for the family grocery could now no longer park a car.
