Example:
I’m dead.
You want to talk about
my family and here I been dead to them for fifty years. Leave me alone. Don’t bother me. They want no parts of me and
me I don’t want no parts of them. Hurry up and get this interview over with. I want to watch Dallas. See, my family,
if you had a been part of them, you wouldn’t have time for this foolishness, your roots, so to speak. You’d be
better off watching the Three Stooges than to interview them, like to go interview my father, forget it. He’d have a
heart attack if he saw you. He’s dead now anyway, or if not he’s 150 years old.
- "The Color of Water" by James Mc Bride
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Explanation:
The tone Ruth McBride uses towards her past life can be one
of clinicalism or detachment. She expresses a lack of emotion while talking about her family and her past by making comments
on how she just wants to get over the interview. She also says that she doesn't want to be a part of her family's lives and
she doesn't care that they disowned her. She mentions her father's supposed death without any sympathy or sadness in
her talk. She straightout spits out the words as if the fact means nothing to her and thus shows that she wants to have nothing
to do with her past and the people of it.
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