The most important line from a chapter is…  (and explain why it is important and how the plot develops from that line)

I  am currently reading "The Color Of  Water" by James McBride. It is a memoir that is from the point of view of James and his mother Ruth. In chapter one, Ruth discusses her background. The line from the chapter that is most important is, "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." Ruth is talking about her relationship with her family. Their relationship is obviously not good, and this shows in later chapters. Ruth changed her name multiple times, and to me that means that she wants to change who she is and get away from her past. Ruth is someone who tries to change the subject when something about her past comes up. Her children didn't know much about her past until they got older. 

Ruth describes her dad as "hard as a rock" and "he was nobody to fool with." In a later chapter she describes what her father would do to her and how it made her really insecure and unhappy. Her mom, she says was the "one person in this world I didn't go right by...." Her mom and dad were the opposite from each other and her dad didn't love her mom. Ruth's mother was sweet and caring, but her dad was not. Her family life is rough and this definitely changes who she is.  

When Ruth says she has been dead to her family, she feels like she is worthless to them. She never talks to them because of her rough family life. In the chapters that I have currently read, Ruth talks about her past. I am curious to see after she has talked about the past if she will talk about the present. Then I will be able to know exactly why she doesn't talk to her family anymore. I felt that chapter 1 was foreshadowing because chapter one was the beginning of the story telling of her life. She started off with saying possibly like, "You want to hear about my family? They have been dead to me for fifty years. I will start from the beginning." I want to know at the end of her story why she is considered "dead" to her family.