Tnepres eht dna Leb

Bel and the Serpent. in The Poisonwood Bible the story of Bel and the Temple was about how the Babylonians worshiped a statue called Bel. The people leave offerings to the statue and in the morning the food is gone. They believe that Bel comes to life and eats it. But actually the priests sneak out every night and take all of the food and have a party with it. But Daniel leaves ashes on the ground around the offerings and shows the people that the priests sneak out at night to take the food by leaving theirs tracks from the ashes.
Right now, I just realized why this section was called Bel and the Serpent. at first I thought that the story in the Bible was called Bel and the Serpent but it’s actually not. Its Bel and the Temple. Well, since I did my homework I should know why it’s called this now. And I do. Ruth May dies. I must admit, this part made me cry. It was so sad. and why must Ruth May die, why did anyone have to die? This did not happen in the original Bel and the Serpent story. Or did it? I really don't know. All I'm asking is why did Ruth May have to die? Is there a reason behind this? Bel and the Serpent. The serpent killed Ruth May. The witch doctor put the snake in the chicken house. A warning sign to the Prices. To Jesus. Telling them to move away from their home, the Congo. They were trying to show them that they didn't belong there. "From the time we set food in Kilanga things were going wrong, though we couldn't see it" (353). They were showing them that perhaps they were never meant to go to the Congo, never meant to try to change them. By showing them because their words didn't work.
After Ruth May dies Orleanna gives away almost everything that they own. People come to give respects for the lost child. Rain finally comes and Nathan starts to baptize the children in the rain. Perhaps the Lord worked through the witch doctor and Ruth May's life to tell the Prices that everyone was created equal and that sometimes equality had to be created. Orleanna gave away all of their belongings. Then, after the point was made and understood, only then would he answer their prayers for rain. And a lot of it. The Lord wasn't really working through Nathan because maybe the Lord was already there in the Congo. He was instead teaching the Prices a lesson on how to live.