Adah

Adah, other characters blindly believe is a heinous person. Her twin, Leah, thinks that Adah is … ornery and bent on destruction, in her own slowpoke way. She lacks vivaciousness and keeps everything to herself. She interests me the most, because of her combined genius and crippled look on life. She is a realist and unlike her twin she doesn't imagine what would she do when she grows up. She doesn't think that she will even live to adulthood.

She can only move one side of her body. Adah is crippled, she employs pathos, that is why it's easy for her to manipulate other people. Her slow, slow body. She "walks" slowly on the way home from the river, Leah always takes all the water herself and goes right ahead. I think that symbolizes how Leah doesn't really care about what happens to Adah on the way home. One time she almost go eaten by a lion, but how Nathan sees it that it was god's will to put a bushbuck instead of Adah into lion's hands.

Adah likes to observe people and nature, so after Leah goes ahead with the water, she goes side to side looking around and observing things. And she spies on the Congolese, I think she is really interested in them and their culture.

Also I like her candor and ability to seek out the fact and truth. Her teacher in Georgia was telling them how people in Africa are condemned, because they were born there. The "niwt" presented a cogent argument that god would not decide people's faith on where they were born. She was sent to pray on her soul while kneeling on grains of uncooked rice. Adah was surprised with her classmates' complaisant behavior toward their teacher and disagreement with her argument. After that incident she realized the she lost her faith in god. She spent time pondering about unfortunate accidents of birth most of that day and her cogitation continues ever since.

The biggest thing about her that I like is how her complex mind works. How she likes to say words backwards. One of the significant palindromes was "God's Love - Evol's dog". That symbolizes how she find the back side of "God's Love" and it's really scary that backwards it's "Evol' dog". I think she is trying to for shadow how her father is going paranoid with spreading the god's word and he crossed the line of being a righteous person to mean spirited one.