Adah is the most fascinating character in the Poisonwood Bible. Adah is one of Nathan and Orleanna’s four daughters and is one of the narrators of the book. Adah is the identical twin sister of Leah, however, they are like night and day. Adah has been paralyzed on her whole left side from birth. Adah rarely speaks and is usually reading books, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde or Emily Dickinson Poetry. She is a very unique person and is very intelligent, however her family doesn’t really know that because she doesn’t speak that often at the beginning of the book. When Adah is narrating, the reader can tell that she is the smart one in the family. She has a unique habit of reading or saying words backwards. At the beginning Adah is portrayed as a detached
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Adah has a growing up moment when her own mom chooses to save Ruth May instead of Adah during the ant invasion. At that moment, Adah felt betrayed and abandoned. That moment made her realized she wanted to live life and no longer wanted to be the detached observer. She felt like that little Ruth May was viewed as more beneficial to her mother, Adah resented her mother for this.
Orleanna and Adah got out of the Congo together, and they ended up in Georgia. Adah enrolls into Emory University in Atlanta. At college she finally finds that science is the only religion that she can believe in. Adah meets a neurologist and he convinces her that her paralysis is mostly mental. After working at it, Adah almost total overcomes her handicap. She becomes a brilliant researcher and studies virus.
Adah is the most interesting character in this whole book because she is a brilliant, backwards reading, crippled preacher’s daughter. There is so much to this one girl. At the beginning of this story the reader gets the feeling that she doesn’t fully believe in her father’s religion like her other sisters. Adah chooses to think for herself. She escapes a lion, escapes imminent death of the ant invasion, and leaves Africa and became a doctor. She overcame her disability to become a very vital character in this book. Adah starts as a silent observer, but chooses to make her own thoughts and discovers her own
Adah has a growing up moment when her own mom chooses to save Ruth May instead of Adah during the ant invasion. At that moment, Adah felt betrayed and abandoned. That moment made her realized she wanted to live life and no longer wanted to be the detached observer. She felt like that little Ruth May was viewed as more beneficial to her mother, Adah resented her mother for this.
Orleanna and Adah got out of the Congo together, and they ended up in Georgia. Adah enrolls into Emory University in Atlanta. At college she finally finds that science is the only religion that she can believe in. Adah meets a neurologist and he convinces her that her paralysis is mostly mental. After working at it, Adah almost total overcomes her handicap. She becomes a brilliant researcher and studies virus.
Adah is the most interesting character in this whole book because she is a brilliant, backwards reading, crippled preacher’s daughter. There is so much to this one girl. At the beginning of this story the reader gets the feeling that she doesn’t fully believe in her father’s religion like her other sisters. Adah chooses to think for herself. She escapes a lion, escapes imminent death of the ant invasion, and leaves Africa and became a doctor. She overcame her disability to become a very vital character in this book. Adah starts as a silent observer, but chooses to make her own thoughts and discovers her own