Poisonwood Bible Genesis-2

This is kind of like a follow-up to my previous post.

My favorite character so far in The Poisonwood Bible is Adah. I'm sure there are others who agree with me, or not. Adah is the twin who is brain dead in half of her brain. The way she talks and how she says and describes life is just so...original. It's seems real. She seems like she's the most rebellious out of the four children. Sometimes we find her dissing God in a subtle way. It seems like she thinks that God doesn't think as highly of her as her other sisters and He doesn't love her as much because he made her half brain dead. Because she can't live up to every one's expectations, because of how they see her as someone who can't talk, she lives in her own life and finds ways to please herself. She puts on the expression of not caring what people think, but she actually does. She doesn't want to be a nobody. Explaining things that people don't see and the bad things that make them are ways to get around feeling that they are better than her. It makes her feel better about herself when putting them down. The things that she focuses on could also be a way for her to lose herself while being trapped in her life. She likes to see things backwards, like when she reads or makes up her own hymns. Perhaps this is a way for her to feel better than the others or a way for her to express how she wish things were, the opposite. She doesn't want to be half brain dead. She doesn't want to be the outcast. Maybe that's why she likes Congo more than the others, because its closer than she's been to herself than before. There's still much more to learn about and by her.