Adah Price Analysis

From the beginning of the book Adah Price is mediocre, in the first chapters it is clear to the readers that she does not believe in the religion her father, Nathan Price preaches. She claimed that she needed a religion to live by and believe in because every member of her family besides her sister Rachel, believed in something. Later in the book when she grows up and is living with her mother, Orleanna Price, she realizes that her religion is science. She believes in it because, science is simply the facts of the world. Adah believes that “in the world, the carrying capacity for humans is limited. History holds all things in the balance, including large hopes and short lives” (Kingsolver 528). She also believes that the world controls the …show more content…
Orleanna chose to take Adah’s sister, Ruth May instead of Adah, and she was trampled to the ground. At that moment Adah knew she had to fight for herself and that she was on her own if she wanted to survive. She got back up and thought “the only wonder to me now is that I thought myself worth saving” (306). After returning to America she learned to use the right side of her body, more than just her physical capabilities changed. Since she was able to walk without limping or carrying things to support her weight, she was capable of keeping pace with the rest of the world and now saw herself identical to everyone else. She believed she proved her “worth of life” by “becoming a doctor” (443). Throughout the book Adah became independent mentally, but her largest change was physically. At the beginning of the book she suffered from hemiplegia, a disease that left her weaker on one side and caused her to be in a wheelchair unable to walk without lots of help. By the end of the book she was able to walk on her own without any help. After long hours of work as a doctor and physical therapy her entire life changed, as she was now “normal” and was not being stared at by people everywhere she went, she was just like everyone