The Congo has affected each sister in some sort of way to change who they were into who they are now at an old(er) age. But Leah and Adah agree Rachel "[would] win the prize for 'Changed the Least.'" When Leah and Adah are walking infront of Rachel she was "shocked to see how alike they were...[Adah] talks now...She's exactly as tall as Leah now...they hadn't seen each other for years, and here they even showed up wearing the same heairstyle...not even a regular fashion." Why hadn't Rachel seen the physical similarities between the twins before? Even though Ada had a limp and not as strong on one side of her body, the only thing that could really be different now is that they grew up.
Why is it that Leah is the only one in the family that gets emotional about Nathan's death? Rachel didn't care one ounce, Adah seemed unaffected, and Orleanna just went to work like she did when she was told that Ruth May had died. I supposed Orleanna felt something because she kept busy with work to keep her mind off of Ruth May's death and said "Only when I stopped did hte slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till i began to drown. So I just didn't stop." There's a possibility she had a LITTLE love for Nathan left from the memories of how he used to be before he went to war.
It was incredible how Adah points out that Father got 'The Verse'. The verse that Nathan would give Adah for just being slow was exactly how he ended up dying! Is there significance to why he just gave Adah that verse? It didn't really apply to someone being slow just being punished for causing trouble: "The King of Kings aroused the anger of Antiochus against the rascal...this man was to blame for all the trouble..." Wouldn't it be necessary for this message to be "taught" to the other girls because their punishments of writing The Verse is because they did soemthing wrong or caused trouble in the eyes of Nathan.
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