Plot
Who is Adah's twin sister?
Leah
What personality trait is shown through Adah's ability to notice details about the environment and people around her that other people usually don't?
Adah is observant
How does Adah's viewpoint of the world contrast Rachel's?
Adah views the world through observation of the people and environment around her, while Rachel is more focused on herself and her appearance
What does Adah's love for palindromes and other word plays reveal about her?
Adah values curiosity and knowledge
What medical condition does Adah have?
Adah has Hemiplegia
What do people think of Adah's silence?
People think Adah's silence means she lacks intelligence or ability
How is Adah's relationship with Leah different compared to the other Price sisters.
They are both twins but are contrasted. For example, Leah and Adah have opposite relationships with Nathan at the beginning of the book.
How does Adah view religion compared to Nathan?
Adah questions religion and observes how the Congolese people perceive it while Nathan strongly believes in what he believes and expects others to conform to his views.
Where does Adah go to college?
Adah uses palindromes and word play a lot throughout the book. What does this contribute to her characterization?
Adah is intellectually creative and has an affinity for patterns
How does Adah's relationship with Nathan affect how she views him?
How does Adah's disability influence her "sense of Adah"
Adah's disability influences how Adah thinks others see her. Adah believes that her disability is what makes her different from her family and characterizes her as the outsider.
How does Adah fix her "medical condition"?
Adah's neurologist friend discovers that her limp is a habit and not a medical condition. She stops walking for 6 months are rewires her nervous pathways.
How does Adah's physical disability characterize her and how she sees the world.
Adah's disability characterizes her as an outsider which gives her a unique point of view of her family and their environment.
How is Adah's interaction with the Congolese people different from the rest of the Price family?
Though Adah does have biases/preconceived notions like most of her family. She develops a greater understanding for the Congolese people because she is more open/accepting.
Adah's value for observing and discovering the truth for herself can be seen through...
how much Adah questions what she is told instead of believing it
What stalks Adah in the forest? What animal does it kill instead of Adah?
A lion stalks Adah but kills a yearling bushbuck instead.
Read the passage on page 72. From "In my mind I invented..." to "... I have never, ever known in Bethlehem, Georgia." How does Kingsolver characterize Adah in this passage
Adah notices Mama Tataba's imperfections and how many women in Kilanga are disfigured. Adah is usually characterized as an outsider because of her own disability however here she is among people like her she enjoys a "benign approval"
Read the passage on page 440. From "I was not learning it..." to "...I just make them on the inside". How does Adah's response characterize her?
This passage characterizes Adah as internally complex. Adah is silent on the outside but that is different from who she is on the inside . This shows how nobody, even Adah's own mother, understands her fully.
Read the passage on page 439. From "I am losing..." to "...between my body and my brain". How does this passage characterize Adah's beliefs about herself?
This passage shows that Adah believes that her disability is an important part of her identity, so the idea that she can lose her disability challenges her "sense of Adah"