Adah Price, or as she prefers to call herself Ada, is not like the rest of her family. Even though she has an identical twin, the two of them are nothing alike. Due to the paralysis of the whole left side of her body, Adah is not expected develop normally, and the only hopes the doctors give her parents are that she might one day learn to read and write. Adah prefers to keep her thoughts to herself, since she believes that silence has many advantages. “When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.” She feels that speaking is a distraction, and that by speaking, people miss out on many other events going on around them. Adah also likes to view the world backwards. When she finishes a book front to back, she reads it back to front. By reading books, and looking at the world from a completely different prespective, Adah learns many things that a “normal” brain which doesn’t “slow down” never seems to grasp. According to the text, Adah is a very smart young woman. Even though she suffers from paralysis on the left side of her body, Adah is still described as “gifted by association” by her Elementary school teacher, Miss Leep. She feels glad that she didn’t enroll in the Special Education program, because she feels that their level of learning is too low for her. Adah doesn’t really enjoy her twin, Leah’s, company because she feels that Leah is sort of fake, and she would do anything In order to please their father. We see Adah several times teasing her twin, in order to prove to her that she is not the only one worth of their father’s acceptance.
To me, Adah is the most interesting character in the book. Not only that, but she's the most admirable. This book is wonderful in its description, but also really hard to read following Things Fall Apart because of its complete change in point of view. From Achebe’s totally unbiased “here’s-how-it-was” telling, we move to Kingslovers’s characters, who are so much more descriptive and so much more biased. Adah, however, is the least biased of the five narrators. I don’t know whether this is because she’s actually less discriminatory, or whether it’s just because she’s so self-involved: either way, it makes for a relaxing break from the rest of the family, most of which is so determined of its own righteousness that it induces loud, aggravated noises from the reader. Adah introduces two very important and unique aspects to the reader. First is her intense intelligence. Her ability to turn everything around is amazing. It definitely makes me start reading all of the sentences in her entries backwards, which is very confusing but also enthralling. More than this, though, is the complex mental aptitude of this girl and the acceptance she shows in being, for the most part, cast off and ignored. She presents this in a very removed fashion, saying: “After our complicated birth, physicians in Atlanta produced many diagnoses on my asymmetrical brain…I might possibly someday learn to read but would never speak a word.” The second interesting aspect Adah introduces is non-discriminatory observation. She tends to see things, rather than judge this. It’s interesting to ponder why. First, she could not have the mental capacity to go from observation to conclusion (these men are not Christian thus they are not worth our respect). However, it seems like if she grew up in the Price household, she would have to have been trained to do this. The second option, which I actually think is more likely, is that, being discriminated against herself often, she tries not to discriminate against others. Another option is that she is too much of a genius to make judgments—she only observes facts and computes them, in her own way. It is easy to think that she is just not intelligent enough or too intelligent to discriminate or even to think like others do. However, what I like to think is that Adah is such an observer that at age fifteen she has become a full-blown cynic of all human tendencies. I would like to think of her chapters as not only interesting exposes of a less judgmental view of the Congo, but also that it presents it this way because Adah can see through the stupidity of the human condition through to that which actually ties us together. However, I have no way of knowing what Adah actually is. This is, indeed, what makes Adah the most interesting—her complexities, which make her terribly hard to understand. But this writing is art. It leaves me hanging on Adah’s every word, while not only reading but comprehending and trying to analyze everything she says just to get some idea of what kind of person she is. This is completely different from the rest of the Prices, and gives the book the spice that turns it from a good book to great literature.
These are great entries. If possible, keep using quotations and try to add page #s. (It's a monster book to hunt through for your essay.) Both journals point out Adah's almost intellectual cynicism (at age 15!). It is worth thinking about: Does this trait really define her? How well does this distance serve her in her life?
Adah, in her last couple of chapters, has talked a lot about poetry, and used it a lot. It’s interesting to think about why Adah associates with poetry. It’s probably because it’s beautiful to read and to hear; in other words, it doesn’t have to be said to be appreciated. Adah is, indeed, like a poet in her chapters—she observes so well, so artfully, and yet is not pushing any ideas on the readers. Her observances about the Christian religion are so wonderful and yet so obvious that it’s kind of amazing none of the other Prices have thought of it yet. It seems like Nathan is such a dynamic guy that Rachel, Orleanna, Ruth May and especially Leah just follow him blindly. But Adah is so much smarter than that. I think it probably comes from removal. When someone is watching rather than participating, they really end up taking in more, and seeing it from a more objective point of view. Another very interesting thing in the recent chapters was the lion chase and escape. It’s still unclear how Adah really did escape that lion… and the end of the chapter is very complex. Examining it more closely: “One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires” (141). What is Adah talking about here? The best I can understand, she’s talking about how wind can change so much. How if the wind had been in another way, the lion would have eaten her. How many new people came to the church after Adah was “saved”, and this led to the death of their religion. Adah is so anti-everything else in the book that it makes you wonder what Kingslover is really trying to say. Everyone else’s entries look like a expose on colonialism or on Africa, while Adah’s chapters make it seem more like an expose on life. It seems like, behind her complex words and amazing observations, she’s just laughing at everyone. And this is a wonderful difference from all the rest of the Prices, who tend to feel sorry for themselves. However, it takes the location of the problem out of the book. When I read other chapters, I think, “Oh, death with racism, death with colonialism, death with people thinking one religion is better than another…”. But then when I read Adah’s thoughts, I wonder, “What am I doing wrong, right now? What am I not seeing? Who am I inadvertently insulting?” I don’t know if that’s what Kingslover intended, but even if it wasn’t, it is this aspect of the book that makes it so wonderful and yet so painful to read.
In the last few chapters I read, Adah really brought out her anti-Christian self. Even though she expressed her dislike towards religion in the beginning of the book, in these lat few chapters she really got me thinking about WHY she is so anti-religion… When Adah stated: “I wonder what religion can live or die on the strength of a faint stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predators to miss the pounce. One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another expires” (141) she made me come to the conclusion that her primary source of being so anti-religious is her disagreement of what and where the faith of the religion is based on! When the lion followed Adah home, she could’ve been easily eaten, but the change of wind caused Adah’s scent to “shift,” causing the predator (the lion) to miss the pounce (getting Adah). The “escaping” of Adah from the lion caused Tata Ndu to feel defeated because he was so sure that the main cause of Adah’s death was her father’s conversion of the people of Congo to Christianity. Nathan, Adah’s father, felt like he has accomplished something great because he proved Tata Ndu’s theory to be wrong. After that incident, a lot more people joined the church, because they saw a superiority of the Price’s God over their gods. And I think that’s what makes Adah hate religion so much! She feels like peoples' faith depends on random events, which happen by coincidence (like her not getting eaten by the lion!) And also it seems like in her opinion, in order for a god to rise, another god has to be “expired.” Also, because of her feeling ostracized at her Sunday school, Adah stopped believing in God at a young age. When she asked her Sunday school teacher a question about God’s judgment of people, she was forced to kneel down on her knees on uncooked rice grains, and pray. She states the following about that experience: “When I finally got up with sharp grains embedded in my knees I found, to my surprise, that I no longer believed in God” (171). It was actually kind of surprising to me when I read Adah’s opinion on God working in mysterious ways. It sounds like she is questioning, and making fun of God, and that’s why I was surprised. Adah is such an intelligent girl, and it seems like she doesn’t even put ANY thought in the way God works in her life, or try to think about WHY. Adah’s completely different view of the world causes her not to follow the religion the rest of her family is following. Also, because Nathan is like a tyrant, FORCING his whole family to believe in what he thinks is true, he causes Adah to go against him and the religion even more! I also thought that the fact that Adah was feeling more accepted in the Congo made her look at life there differently than the others in her family. She appreciated more things. It’s funny to see people making fun of Rachel’s beauty, and seeing Adah’s paralysis as something normal, which is completely different from what happened back at home! And Adah enjoys life more because she can connect with the people of the Congo and understand them more. The last thing that got my attention in these last few chapters is Adah’s feeling of growing up. Because her mother gets sick, her and her sisters are forced to cook the meals and pretty much do all the work that has to be done around the house. Adah acknowledges the fact that she’s growing up when she says: “Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves” (218) I’m really excited to see how Adah’s views change in the next few chapters!
Adah’s fifteen years old. She wants to live, as most teenagers, and people, do. But she seems almost angry at herself for wishing to continue her life: “The wonder to me now is that I thought myself worth saving… even the crooked girl believed her own life was precious” (306). And after her mother abandons her, she seems even more cynical and bleak than before about the path her own life is taking: “That night marks my life’s dark center, the moment when growing up ended and the long downward slope towards death began” (306). She continues her observations even as her youngest sister is killed: Her bluish face creased with a pressure closing in, the near proximity of the other-than-life that crowds down among the edges of living” (365). However, when Leah describes Adah as “white-faced… as if she was drowning” (371) it is clear she feels just as strongly and terribly the death of her sister as anyone else in her family. I think that this foray into Adah’s mind is also very important as we study genetic disorders, sometimes mental, in Biology. Everyone may see her as another type, a “beast” as she calls herself (306), but she feels just as keenly as any other human being. And this shows a lesson not only to keep in mind when thinking about Adah, but also about everyone who is different than us. Although we may question their sanity and be unable to communicate with them, they still feel. This is what makes them human, and what makes us inhumane to not treat them as such.
The chapter when Adah talks to her mother in January 1985 shocked me. I always had this picture of Adah as who she was because she was crippled. The reason she had such a cynical view of the world was because of her disability, because she was so often ignored and had a chance to observe the idiosyncrasies of a “normal” human family. I assumed that once she was walking and talking normally again, she would act normally: not hating, not being cynical. Of course, I now discover, this was an extraordinarily stereotypical assumption. Adah’s personality is made because of who she is, not whether or not she can walk—and her memories of being the forgotten one in the family will always be with her, whether or not she looks and acts like a non-handicapped person. Another assumption I had, or maybe a decision I made, was that Adah underneath it all was a good person. That she was unpleasant because she didn’t know how to be otherwise; that she was angry because she couldn’t be like everyone else. But this is so untrue. She was not angry that she was different—she loved that about herself. “It has taken me years to accept my new position. I find I no longer have Ada…’But I liked how I was’” (493). And she also is not a good person. I kind of imagined that she was sorry she put her family through so much trouble and basically loved them all. But when she states her feelings about her mother: “’I imagined getting the kerosene and burning him up in his bed. I only didn’t because you were in it too.’…Because then you would be free too. And I didn’t want that. I wanted you to remember what he did to us” (496). This shows a gigantic amount of anger still stored inside of Adah, but she seems almost happy about it: “I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth” (496). This chapter took what I thought about Adah through the whole book and destroyed it, leaving me wondering whether Adah is, as I had believed, a victim, or whether she is more an angry, cynical hater, holding people accountable still for prejudice they held decades before.
Adah’s behavior surprised me in these last few chapters. The fact that she felt she was “worth” saving surprised me. I can recall many times were Adah talked about her uselessness due to her tendency to just observe instead of participate. During her close-to-death experience, Adah “clung for life” (306) using as much power as she could. She states: “The wonder to me now is that I thought myself worth saving… Desperate to save myself in a river of people saving themselves… And if they chanced to look down and see me struggling underneath them, they saw that even the crooked girl believed her own life was precious” (306), when describing her desire to save herself. This quote really reminded me of Lord of the Flies, because it kind of portrays savagery, and the tendency of humans to act selfishly- a feeling that I have never felt towards Adah before. Her feelings towards the value of life are also expressed in her description of Ruth May’s death. She makes death seem like a new beginning, while at the same time the very end, which I found interesting. Adah seems to be more appreciative of what she has, realizing that she’s a lot more than just a girl with a body that’s too weak (343), but a human worth saving/ living!
First off, these are excellent journals. You both raise terrific questions about the complexity of Adah's character. You also provide some good answers (I loved the analysis of the lion "attack" and religion). I am intrigued by a whole series of issues, but I thought that Adah's final status was especially intriguing. It turns out that Adah was only sort of crippled--she isn't at the end, right? So what does that mean? Obviously, she had a physical problem, but Lydia, you made me wonder if it wasn't aslo spiritual, and Taryn, when you pointed out teh kerosene passage, you pushed my thinking further in that direction. On the oether hand,she is looking to cure disease at the end, a pretty darned noble goal...
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I'd like to study Adah across the book.
-Taryn
I want to follow Adah too.
Lydia
Then she's closed for now... oot dab rof enoyna esle!
Adah Price, or as she prefers to call herself Ada, is not like the rest of her family. Even though she has an identical twin, the two of them are nothing alike. Due to the paralysis of the whole left side of her body, Adah is not expected develop normally, and the only hopes the doctors give her parents are that she might one day learn to read and write. Adah prefers to keep her thoughts to herself, since she believes that silence has many advantages. “When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.” She feels that speaking is a distraction, and that by speaking, people miss out on many other events going on around them.
Adah also likes to view the world backwards. When she finishes a book front to back, she reads it back to front. By reading books, and looking at the world from a completely different prespective, Adah learns many things that a “normal” brain which doesn’t “slow down” never seems to grasp. According to the text, Adah is a very smart young woman. Even though she suffers from paralysis on the left side of her body, Adah is still described as “gifted by association” by her Elementary school teacher, Miss Leep. She feels glad that she didn’t enroll in the Special Education program, because she feels that their level of learning is too low for her.
Adah doesn’t really enjoy her twin, Leah’s, company because she feels that Leah is sort of fake, and she would do anything In order to please their father. We see Adah several times teasing her twin, in order to prove to her that she is not the only one worth of their father’s acceptance.
To me, Adah is the most interesting character in the book. Not only that, but she's the most admirable. This book is wonderful in its description, but also really hard to read following Things Fall Apart because of its complete change in point of view. From Achebe’s totally unbiased “here’s-how-it-was” telling, we move to Kingslovers’s characters, who are so much more descriptive and so much more biased. Adah, however, is the least biased of the five narrators. I don’t know whether this is because she’s actually less discriminatory, or whether it’s just because she’s so self-involved: either way, it makes for a relaxing break from the rest of the family, most of which is so determined of its own righteousness that it induces loud, aggravated noises from the reader. Adah introduces two very important and unique aspects to the reader. First is her intense intelligence. Her ability to turn everything around is amazing. It definitely makes me start reading all of the sentences in her entries backwards, which is very confusing but also enthralling. More than this, though, is the complex mental aptitude of this girl and the acceptance she shows in being, for the most part, cast off and ignored. She presents this in a very removed fashion, saying: “After our complicated birth, physicians in Atlanta produced many diagnoses on my asymmetrical brain…I might possibly someday learn to read but would never speak a word.” The second interesting aspect Adah introduces is non-discriminatory observation. She tends to see things, rather than judge this. It’s interesting to ponder why. First, she could not have the mental capacity to go from observation to conclusion (these men are not Christian thus they are not worth our respect). However, it seems like if she grew up in the Price household, she would have to have been trained to do this. The second option, which I actually think is more likely, is that, being discriminated against herself often, she tries not to discriminate against others. Another option is that she is too much of a genius to make judgments—she only observes facts and computes them, in her own way. It is easy to think that she is just not intelligent enough or too intelligent to discriminate or even to think like others do. However, what I like to think is that Adah is such an observer that at age fifteen she has become a full-blown cynic of all human tendencies. I would like to think of her chapters as not only interesting exposes of a less judgmental view of the Congo, but also that it presents it this way because Adah can see through the stupidity of the human condition through to that which actually ties us together. However, I have no way of knowing what Adah actually is. This is, indeed, what makes Adah the most interesting—her complexities, which make her terribly hard to understand. But this writing is art. It leaves me hanging on Adah’s every word, while not only reading but comprehending and trying to analyze everything she says just to get some idea of what kind of person she is. This is completely different from the rest of the Prices, and gives the book the spice that turns it from a good book to great literature.
These are great entries. If possible, keep using quotations and try to add page #s. (It's a monster book to hunt through for your essay.) Both journals point out Adah's almost intellectual cynicism (at age 15!). It is worth thinking about: Does this trait really define her? How well does this distance serve her in her life?
Adah, in her last couple of chapters, has talked a lot about poetry, and used it a lot. It’s interesting to think about why Adah associates with poetry. It’s probably because it’s beautiful to read and to hear; in other words, it doesn’t have to be said to be appreciated. Adah is, indeed, like a poet in her chapters—she observes so well, so artfully, and yet is not pushing any ideas on the readers. Her observances about the Christian religion are so wonderful and yet so obvious that it’s kind of amazing none of the other Prices have thought of it yet. It seems like Nathan is such a dynamic guy that Rachel, Orleanna, Ruth May and especially Leah just follow him blindly. But Adah is so much smarter than that. I think it probably comes from removal. When someone is watching rather than participating, they really end up taking in more, and seeing it from a more objective point of view. Another very interesting thing in the recent chapters was the lion chase and escape. It’s still unclear how Adah really did escape that lion… and the end of the chapter is very complex. Examining it more closely: “One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires” (141). What is Adah talking about here? The best I can understand, she’s talking about how wind can change so much. How if the wind had been in another way, the lion would have eaten her. How many new people came to the church after Adah was “saved”, and this led to the death of their religion. Adah is so anti-everything else in the book that it makes you wonder what Kingslover is really trying to say. Everyone else’s entries look like a expose on colonialism or on Africa, while Adah’s chapters make it seem more like an expose on life. It seems like, behind her complex words and amazing observations, she’s just laughing at everyone. And this is a wonderful difference from all the rest of the Prices, who tend to feel sorry for themselves. However, it takes the location of the problem out of the book. When I read other chapters, I think, “Oh, death with racism, death with colonialism, death with people thinking one religion is better than another…”. But then when I read Adah’s thoughts, I wonder, “What am I doing wrong, right now? What am I not seeing? Who am I inadvertently insulting?” I don’t know if that’s what Kingslover intended, but even if it wasn’t, it is this aspect of the book that makes it so wonderful and yet so painful to read.
In the last few chapters I read, Adah really brought out her anti-Christian self. Even though she expressed her dislike towards religion in the beginning of the book, in these lat few chapters she really got me thinking about WHY she is so anti-religion… When Adah stated: “I wonder what religion can live or die on the strength of a faint stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predators to miss the pounce. One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another expires” (141) she made me come to the conclusion that her primary source of being so anti-religious is her disagreement of what and where the faith of the religion is based on! When the lion followed Adah home, she could’ve been easily eaten, but the change of wind caused Adah’s scent to “shift,” causing the predator (the lion) to miss the pounce (getting Adah). The “escaping” of Adah from the lion caused Tata Ndu to feel defeated because he was so sure that the main cause of Adah’s death was her father’s conversion of the people of Congo to Christianity. Nathan, Adah’s father, felt like he has accomplished something great because he proved Tata Ndu’s theory to be wrong. After that incident, a lot more people joined the church, because they saw a superiority of the Price’s God over their gods. And I think that’s what makes Adah hate religion so much! She feels like peoples' faith depends on random events, which happen by coincidence (like her not getting eaten by the lion!) And also it seems like in her opinion, in order for a god to rise, another god has to be “expired.” Also, because of her feeling ostracized at her Sunday school, Adah stopped believing in God at a young age. When she asked her Sunday school teacher a question about God’s judgment of people, she was forced to kneel down on her knees on uncooked rice grains, and pray. She states the following about that experience: “When I finally got up with sharp grains embedded in my knees I found, to my surprise, that I no longer believed in God” (171). It was actually kind of surprising to me when I read Adah’s opinion on God working in mysterious ways. It sounds like she is questioning, and making fun of God, and that’s why I was surprised. Adah is such an intelligent girl, and it seems like she doesn’t even put ANY thought in the way God works in her life, or try to think about WHY. Adah’s completely different view of the world causes her not to follow the religion the rest of her family is following. Also, because Nathan is like a tyrant, FORCING his whole family to believe in what he thinks is true, he causes Adah to go against him and the religion even more!
I also thought that the fact that Adah was feeling more accepted in the Congo made her look at life there differently than the others in her family. She appreciated more things. It’s funny to see people making fun of Rachel’s beauty, and seeing Adah’s paralysis as something normal, which is completely different from what happened back at home! And Adah enjoys life more because she can connect with the people of the Congo and understand them more.
The last thing that got my attention in these last few chapters is Adah’s feeling of growing up. Because her mother gets sick, her and her sisters are forced to cook the meals and pretty much do all the work that has to be done around the house. Adah acknowledges the fact that she’s growing up when she says: “Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves” (218) I’m really excited to see how Adah’s views change in the next few chapters!
Adah’s fifteen years old. She wants to live, as most teenagers, and people, do. But she seems almost angry at herself for wishing to continue her life: “The wonder to me now is that I thought myself worth saving… even the crooked girl believed her own life was precious” (306). And after her mother abandons her, she seems even more cynical and bleak than before about the path her own life is taking: “That night marks my life’s dark center, the moment when growing up ended and the long downward slope towards death began” (306).
She continues her observations even as her youngest sister is killed: Her bluish face creased with a pressure closing in, the near proximity of the other-than-life that crowds down among the edges of living” (365). However, when Leah describes Adah as “white-faced… as if she was drowning” (371) it is clear she feels just as strongly and terribly the death of her sister as anyone else in her family. I think that this foray into Adah’s mind is also very important as we study genetic disorders, sometimes mental, in Biology. Everyone may see her as another type, a “beast” as she calls herself (306), but she feels just as keenly as any other human being. And this shows a lesson not only to keep in mind when thinking about Adah, but also about everyone who is different than us. Although we may question their sanity and be unable to communicate with them, they still feel. This is what makes them human, and what makes us inhumane to not treat them as such.
The chapter when Adah talks to her mother in January 1985 shocked me. I always had this picture of Adah as who she was because she was crippled. The reason she had such a cynical view of the world was because of her disability, because she was so often ignored and had a chance to observe the idiosyncrasies of a “normal” human family. I assumed that once she was walking and talking normally again, she would act normally: not hating, not being cynical. Of course, I now discover, this was an extraordinarily stereotypical assumption. Adah’s personality is made because of who she is, not whether or not she can walk—and her memories of being the forgotten one in the family will always be with her, whether or not she looks and acts like a non-handicapped person. Another assumption I had, or maybe a decision I made, was that Adah underneath it all was a good person. That she was unpleasant because she didn’t know how to be otherwise; that she was angry because she couldn’t be like everyone else. But this is so untrue. She was not angry that she was different—she loved that about herself. “It has taken me years to accept my new position. I find I no longer have Ada…’But I liked how I was’” (493). And she also is not a good person. I kind of imagined that she was sorry she put her family through so much trouble and basically loved them all. But when she states her feelings about her mother: “’I imagined getting the kerosene and burning him up in his bed. I only didn’t because you were in it too.’…Because then you would be free too. And I didn’t want that. I wanted you to remember what he did to us” (496). This shows a gigantic amount of anger still stored inside of Adah, but she seems almost happy about it: “I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth” (496). This chapter took what I thought about Adah through the whole book and destroyed it, leaving me wondering whether Adah is, as I had believed, a victim, or whether she is more an angry, cynical hater, holding people accountable still for prejudice they held decades before.
Adah’s behavior surprised me in these last few chapters. The fact that she felt she was “worth” saving surprised me. I can recall many times were Adah talked about her uselessness due to her tendency to just observe instead of participate. During her close-to-death experience, Adah “clung for life” (306) using as much power as she could. She states: “The wonder to me now is that I thought myself worth saving… Desperate to save myself in a river of people saving themselves… And if they chanced to look down and see me struggling underneath them, they saw that even the crooked girl believed her own life was precious” (306), when describing her desire to save herself. This quote really reminded me of Lord of the Flies, because it kind of portrays savagery, and the tendency of humans to act selfishly- a feeling that I have never felt towards Adah before. Her feelings towards the value of life are also expressed in her description of Ruth May’s death. She makes death seem like a new beginning, while at the same time the very end, which I found interesting.
Adah seems to be more appreciative of what she has, realizing that she’s a lot more than just a girl with a body that’s too weak (343), but a human worth saving/ living!
First off, these are excellent journals. You both raise terrific questions about the complexity of Adah's character. You also provide some good answers (I loved the analysis of the lion "attack" and religion). I am intrigued by a whole series of issues, but I thought that Adah's final status was especially intriguing. It turns out that Adah was only sort of crippled--she isn't at the end, right? So what does that mean? Obviously, she had a physical problem, but Lydia, you made me wonder if it wasn't aslo spiritual, and Taryn, when you pointed out teh kerosene passage, you pushed my thinking further in that direction. On the oether hand,she is looking to cure disease at the end, a pretty darned noble goal...
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