All 10 Uses of
gentile
in
The Color of Water
- He had few friends because he was shy, and even if he did make a friend, we weren't allowed to have gentile friends.
Chpt 7 *gentile = non-Jewish
- That gentile school won't teach you anything you can use," he scoffed.†
Chpt 9
- He would rather pay for us to study privately than to go to school with gentiles, but the law was the law, so I had to go to school with the white folks.†
Chpt 9
- I was actually forbidden to play with her because she was a gentile, but I'd sneak over to her house anyway and sneak her over to mine.†
Chpt 9
- Boys If there was one thing Tateh didn't like more than gentiles, it was black folks.†
Chpt 11
- You're not marching into any gentile church.†
Chpt 15
- Don't go into that gentile church" he said.†
Chpt 15
- Of course my parents wouldn't go to that gentile graduation, so I put on my cap and gown and walked the six blocks to Suffolk High School alone and waited for Frances in the parking lot.†
Chpt 15
- The young Jewish girl who at one time could not allow herself to walk into a gentile church now couldn't do without it; her Orthodox Jewish ways had long since translated themselves into full-blown Christianity.†
Chpt 16
- I could only imagine how painful that must have been, having to leave the only real home she ever had at age seventeen, her mother gone, her father with a gentile woman, her brother in the war, her sister disappeared; being completely helpless as the pillars of her life fell away like toothpicks.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(gentile) a person or characteristic of a person who is not Jewish; or who is Christian