In “Genesis,” Adah sees past the illusion that the Congolese are a primitive subgenre of humans who are inferior to the Prices. Instead, she understands that the Congolese are the same as the rest of human civilization just with different cultures and traditions. When the Prices arrive in the Congo, Rachel and Nathan are shocked and disturbed by the Congolese not wearing clothes. As a result, Nathan angrily delivers a speech to the entire Congo to insult them for their nakedness and call them sinners. On the other hand, Adah does not judge the Congolese just for having different culture than the Price family is used to. Instead, she focuses on the details she finds more important such as her surroundings. She first observes the Kwilu River, After the giant feast the Congolese prepared for the
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While Adah is attending medical school at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, a neurologist tells her that her limp can be cured by not walking for six full months. After she crawls around for half a year, she is cured, and her limp is gone. Although this treatment gives Adah a false appearance of normality and necessary renewal, Adah actually feels like she has lost an important part of herself due to losing her limp. Adah lost her ability to see palindromes and “to read in the old way” after the (492). Several years later, while still in Atlanta and doing volunteer work, She still misses the old part of her: “How can I explain that my two halves used to add up to more than one whole” (493). Adah realizes that Orleanna left her behind in the ant swarm not because of something wrong with her, but, because Orleanna was protecting Ruth May, her youngest. Adah realizes that she is able to change Africa for the better if she puts her mind to it. Although, she attempts this positive transformation of the nation through science rather than through political or social
While Adah is attending medical school at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, a neurologist tells her that her limp can be cured by not walking for six full months. After she crawls around for half a year, she is cured, and her limp is gone. Although this treatment gives Adah a false appearance of normality and necessary renewal, Adah actually feels like she has lost an important part of herself due to losing her limp. Adah lost her ability to see palindromes and “to read in the old way” after the (492). Several years later, while still in Atlanta and doing volunteer work, She still misses the old part of her: “How can I explain that my two halves used to add up to more than one whole” (493). Adah realizes that Orleanna left her behind in the ant swarm not because of something wrong with her, but, because Orleanna was protecting Ruth May, her youngest. Adah realizes that she is able to change Africa for the better if she puts her mind to it. Although, she attempts this positive transformation of the nation through science rather than through political or social