Adah By Barbara Kingsolver: Poem Analysis

The reason Barbara Kingsolver uses Adah to read the poems is because due to her mental problem and being half paralysed reading is some of the only things she can do in the Congo, this is why Adah is the character that describes the poems because she doesn 't have the mental capacity to do anything that requires moving her whole body , so reading is the biggest thing she has to do besides being observant. This poem was placed in this part of the novel because the chapter before spoke of Mrs and MrUnderdown are leaving the Congo because there was a terrible situation going on. This poem begins to show the problems that Adah has seen; such as the many funerals for kids she has seen outside of people 's houses around where she lives, this is

Pascals brothers death and the other children dying in the Congo connects the poem at this exact part of the novel in a stronger way because the writer of the poem William C. William wrote it while he was waiting for a child to

The observations that Adah makes could not have been made by any other character in the book, this occurs because while characters like Rachel and Leah have changed throughout the book it has made them change about how they saw the Congo and made them acknowledge the problems they now face. Keeping Adah 's character mostly the same makes her a special character because while her family focuses on the problems they have such as no food while she is still observing the changes that go on because she can 't help due to her disease. Finally, Adah respect the writer of the poem because she doesn 't have much to do, but reading and talking about the poems bring her hope. The hope that she gets is about her managing to get to adulthood instead of dying young, this is why Adah explains why she likes William C. William. The reason she likes William C. is because he was a poet and a doctor and it brings Adah hope that if she could get to adulthood she would like to be a doctor-poet just like him and write poems about the people she meets. While Adah describes what she would like to do as and adult it gets in her head that she could not write a poem like the wheel barrel because William wrote it while waiting for a kid to die and Adah believes that in the Congo there isn 't enough time to finish a poem, this changes the way