Color of Water Post #1

5 things I Understand:
1. How Orthodox Jews mourn deaths.
2. What "Tateh" means.
3. What happened to Hudis' town during the Holocaust
4.Why Mameh was deformed
5.Why James acted so bad

4 Questions I Have
1. Why did the speaker change her name?
2. Why is she did to her family?
3.How did Rachel deal with all the deaths and all her children.
4.Where is the rest of her family

3 Vocabulary Words
1.fedora- soft felt hat that is creased lengthwise down the crown and pinched in the front on both sides
2.nonchalance-Casual lack of concern
3.invariable- Not changing or subject to change; constant

2 Literary Elements:
1. "Ive been dead to them for fifty years" methaphor
2."He was hard as a rock" simile

1 Summary Sentence:
1. In chapters 1-5, characters are introduced and backround information is given on Rachel's imidiate family.