it had to stop somewhere...

so, i kept up my character analyzing, and i'm glad i did, because i feel that in many ways, every character kind of stopped growing in exodus. or, more than in the previous books anyways...

ORLEANNA-she was someone i really admired and looked up to, and she still is in exodus. even though sometimes she seems not as strong as before, i think it took a lot of courage and faith to leave nathan to kinda of start over. i see growth because now i feel that she's doing what she wants to do, which shows that shes a strong enough person to do what she wants now, not just what nathan wants her to do. i give her major props for doing this.

RACHEL-this book made me hate rachel even more. i think she's spoiled and conceited. she thinks the world revolves around her, and it doesn't. i really didn't appreciate what she said about leah's children. i mean, they're her nephews for crying out loud. and all she says about them is that she doesn't know how leah can love them if they're half black. that is so, so rude to me. i really don't like that she would say something like that--especially about her little sister. she's very immature and i don't think she should be so successful.

LEAH-leah disappointed me this book. she's the one i've seen constant growth in throughout the whole entire book, and this book, i didn't feel nearly half the amount of growth that i've been feeling from her. like brent said, i really feel that her passages were repetitive. i'm very glad her and anatole are happy together with four sons, but i don't really see her learning things any more. and now she has this kind of lost feeling because she lives in africa and she's pretty much the only white one there. i feel that she belonged better when she was in the congo with her family. it really disappointed me...

ADAH-adah somewhat disappointed me in this book, too. like i said in class, i'm very happy that she found a way to fix her limp and is very successful in life. i'm glad she's happy about fixing her physical disability, too. but, at one point, she mentions how along with losing her physical disability, she's lost her "ada" or palindrome-ness. and, this makes me really sad, and somewhat makes me think that all this growth she's gone through during the story and even before it has been for nothing. this is how i always thought of adah. she was always the genius with cool palindromes and she always kept me guessing. i couldn't wait to hear what she would say about a certain situation because i love how she looks at things. but, this book she lost that, and that makes me sad.

that's it...can't wait to see what happens next book...
em...♥