Orleanna Price Analysis

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If you were to think about someone or something that had to sacrifice something you would probably think of a Abel, Abraham, soldier, a politician, or cop. A person to really think about is Orleanna Price. Orleanna gave up sanity by living with her husband Nathan, sacrificed her “normal” American life by going to the Congo, and she sacrificed her own life to take care of her children.
When Orleanna was a young girl she was free spirited but then she married Nathan.
Orleanna Price is a deep-thinking, intelligent woman, but because of her selfish, ignorant, and belligerent husband Nathan, dictatorship like attitude, she’s often forced to hide and trap in her feelings, she also has to sacrifice her needs and pleasures, especially in the Congo.
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This is a very true statement that Adah reads, given the swiftness and lethal power that the snake has the snake attacks Ruth May no one sees this horrific attack on this sweet innocent soul and Ruth May dies instantly due to the attack. Orleanna sacrificed her life and happiness to take care of her daughters that she had by a conceited, self centered,
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ignorant man. Orleanna Price sacrificed her life that was full of happiness, hopes, and dreams for her daughters. “Rachel screamed every single time she wet her diaper and set the other two off like alarm bells. She also screamed excessively over teething. Adah howled from frustration, and
Leah cried over nightmares. For six years, from age nineteen until I turned twenty-five, I did not sleep uninterrupted through a single night.” Orleanna Price has sacrificed her life for her daughters every single day.
If you were to think about someone or something that had to sacrifice something you would probably think of a Abel, Abraham, soldier, a politician, or cop. A person to really think about is Orleanna Price. Orleanna gave up sanity by living with her husband Nathan, sacrificed her “normal” American life by going to the Congo, and she sacrificed her own life to take care of
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