Kingsolver's Character Analysis: Adah
Kimberly Lopez
English 7 Pd. 3
Due: December 12, 2012
Why did Kingsolver create Adah to be what she is?
Based on the information already provided on the Price family, I feel Kingsolver made Adah out to be “different” as a way of proving the family’s biggest sin: rejection of God’s children. Although Adah had been born with a mental disability, I feel that she was made out to be the strongest and most intelligent in the family. As she learns the quickest and no matter what has happened to her, from Leah leaving her in the Lions dean to struggling alone within the family, she had never once complained or let herself be defeated. She’s the one in the family who would not do something she didn’t approve of in order to please another, not
English 7 Pd. 3
Due: December 12, 2012
Why did Kingsolver create Adah to be what she is?
Based on the information already provided on the Price family, I feel Kingsolver made Adah out to be “different” as a way of proving the family’s biggest sin: rejection of God’s children. Although Adah had been born with a mental disability, I feel that she was made out to be the strongest and most intelligent in the family. As she learns the quickest and no matter what has happened to her, from Leah leaving her in the Lions dean to struggling alone within the family, she had never once complained or let herself be defeated. She’s the one in the family who would not do something she didn’t approve of in order to please another, not