Rachel is going for a walk with Axelroot in the beginning of this reading and she promised "to walk with him around the village, and not a speck farther. [She] swore to Mother [She] would not set foor into the forest with him or anywhere out of sight." But next thing you know they were "outside [their] village." and continuing to walk toward the forest. "Axelroot just kepr walking, and suddenly i didn't care what happened next." After they reached the forest, Axelroot kissed her and this was foreshadowed when they first begin smoking. "...he took the cigarette out of my mouth and put it in his...struck the match...and lit the two of them together...Then, ever so gently, he put the lit cigarette back in mylips. It seemed almost like we had kissed."
Rachel is constantly having to remind herself that Axelroot is a creep. "Chills ran down my back, but I couldn't tell for sure if it was thrills chills or the creeps...you cant for one minute let yourselfforget he is a creep." But if you think about it, it seems like she is attracted to some kind of mysteriousness about the guy. Something like how her mother, Orleanna, was attracted not to Nathan but to the mystery of him. Hmmmm!!!
"how could I leave Adah behind again? Once in teh womb, once to the lion, and now like Simon Peter i had denied her for the third time." What is the significance of Leah reffering herself to Simon Peter? Peter was a man that was always willing to put himself "out there" and see what Jesus could really do, but he was foolish too. He didn't think before he did and sometiems that got him in a mess of trouble. Could this be foreshadowing for Leah or simply just making a comparison?
We see Adah speak for the first time in one of her chapters! "I spoke out loud, the only time:help me...I spoke again: Please." She never yelled or cried or pleaded these words, she just spoke them. It makes a person wonder if there was emotion of the terror she felt inside show through her voice or through her face. The image she portrays next makes me think of what hell might be like; "...though i felt it vaguely, already numb from the burning ants. I knew when i went down...i was being trampled. A crush of feet on my chest. I rolled over again and again, covering my head with my arms...Ants on my earlopes, my tongue, my eyelids. I heard myself cry out loud-such a strange noise, as if it came from my hear and fingernails...Left behind." That last part is what really put a connection to hell. It was as if the rapture had come and the person that didn't quite make it was thrown down and trampled on; being eaten alive by "burning ants" and she was left behind.
Leah confessed a deep feeling to Anatole; "I love you, Anatole." His response was like a slap in the face. "Leah! Don't ever say that again." "I never will." Then Leah becomes even closer to the Congo because she envisions the dead skeliton chickens just the way they were when they returned days later. "I was surprised that their dislocated skeletons looked just the way I'd imagined them. This is what i must have learned, the night God turned his back on my; how to foretell the future in chicken bones." it seems all of the girls in the price family are slipping away from their faith! Rachel, when only having time to "...save one precious thing." chose, "...not the Bible-it didn't seem worth saving at that time..." but "It had to by [her] mirror." Then also, adah said she didn't believe in God anymore a while back in the book...What is happening to the Price family?
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