last cycle, for twisted lit circles, i analyzed three characters: rachel, adah, and nathan. since both leah and i were character analyzing, we decided to split up the characters so we could analyze them with more depth.
this cycle i continued with analyzing characters so i could see their personal growth throughout the book. instead of just doing three this cycle, i did the four daughters.
LEAH-i have seen so much growth in leah this book. especially her first pasaage. she shows the friendship with pascal, and explains how jealous she really is of him. we see a side that we haven't seen of leah before because she wishes she wasn't white for the first time in her life, and we see her think a different way about nathan. through this point in p.w.b. we see leah as kind of the "daddy's girl". she seems upset at her father for bringing her up a certain way and not that way pascal was brought up. i also thinks this friendship shows growth because earlier in the book, leah sees ruth may playing "mother, may i" with the congolese kids, and she wishes she could do that as easily as ruth may can. and in this book(the revelation), leah lets herself accept one of the congolese kids.
RUTH MAY-i haven't seen that much growth in ruth may, just a little. she is still so innocent and young, she doesn't really know what's going on. even though she's the first one to acccept the congolese children and play with them, she's been like that from the beginning of p.w.b. it's not like anything that happened so far in p.w.b. would have made her change her mind. she still repeats what her mom and dad say, and she still gives us mostly facts and not very much opinion.
what i did like in one of ruth may's passages was the paragraph about the bugs and the light. ruth may says:
the mosquitoes and big white moths came in the door and went out the windows. some of them decided to take off their coats and stay awhile, so they flew in the kerosene lamp and got burned up. that is what happens to you if you're bad and don't go to heaven, you go and get burned up in the bad place instead. so that night our house was the bad place for the congolese bugs. ha ha (157).
this is definitely a metaphor and she even states that it's a metaphor, probably because of her young age, but it's still a metaphor, and she didn't get it all from her parents, so it shows some growth in ruth may.
RACHEL-i haven't seen a lot of growth in rachel either. she still isn't used to the idea of staying in the congo for a while, and she still wants to go home. we still constantly hear her talking about materialistic things such as diamonds, even though they are relevant because they are plenty in the congo, and picking at her cuticles when mr. and mrs. underdown are arguing with her parents about moving back to georgia. because she wants to go back to georgia.
ADAH-adah is my favorite character. i think she is constantly growing and will keep growing because there's nowhere she can stop. she is very relaxed and practical, which is what i like about her. i like that when she knew there was something behind her that one time in the forrest, she kept calm and just walked calmly home. snce she knew it was alive, she probably figured if she doesn't bother it, it should leave her alone, like any living thing in this world. i especially like how she describes things to show you what happened, instead of straight out telling what happened. like, at the end of the revelation, she shows us a picture of knowing methuselah dead. she doesn't say, "methuselah died!" instead she talks about all his feathers on the ground. i like showing a lot better than telling, and that's what adah does.
so, that's basically it about the four daughters and how they've grown.
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