Adah Character Analysis

Adah is Leah's identical twin sister, and is disabled on the whole left side of her body paralyzed from birth. As Adah gets older, she loses a lot of characteristics to a certain extent. After a troubling accident, she struggled to save herself from death one night, and she finally realizes that she cares about her life. She shies away from her skepticism as she matures. Adah becomes very science-based, and somewhat identifies it as a religion she really is devoted to it. She loves and admires her studies, and looks back on her unwitting disability and her tendency to see the world from a different perspective, and retains a significant portion of that person in her. Knowing the kind of person Adah is, she willingly places herself in voluntary exile from the

She’s pulled into life and forced to admit that she cares enough to participate. When Adah stated that, "In the world, the carrying capacity for humans is limited. History holds all things in the balance, including large hopes and short lives. She approaches this development as justice is impossible and that its unfair than children die because of malnutrition and disease. I would describe Adah as stubborn, shy, careless, concealed, open-minded, disabled, outspoken, convergent, intelligent, hating, divergent, reflective, and knowledgeable. When it said that “Adah- who was ignoring her too, but since Adah never talks to anyone, it was less noticeable” (pg.16)(P2) this strengths the argument that Adah is shy and convergent. Her divergence is approximately the constant change of themes in the narrative. In my eyes, this narration is unclear and foreshadows the important themes required to fully understand this novel. In my opinion, I believe that her disability fully crippled her in life. The qualities of someone disabled were not the challenges she chose to pursue. Knowing Adah, I believe that she is a greatly outspoken person and is independent in every type of