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The Price Girl

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Book one is called Genesis. The book tells the story of four Price girls getting ready for Kilanga and the things they carry. The writing technique that lets the reader see the same event through five different point views allows deeper insight. The plots of the four girls also help show how realistic the story is due to their immature and childish actions in the Congo. Ruth May is the youngest of Nathan and Orleanna. She was only five when the family entered the Congo to be missionaries. Ruth May shows her young age and innocence right in the beginning of the book when she says “GOD SAYS THE AFRICANS are the Tribes of Ham… so Noah cursed all Ham’s children to be slaves for ever and ever” (20). She reveals and reflects the racist society down …show more content…

Their arrogance comes from believing the idea that they come from a superior place and now they can help and bringing a better life style into the Congo. For example Nathan Price who is the father of the four girls taught the girls that the women do not cover their breasts should feel ashamed because they are committing a sin. In the contrast the Congo people find the girls to be weird because they wear pants and dresses that show their legs, but the Congo people does think the price family is a group of shameless people. Adah is Leah 's twin sister and was born with a condition where she can’t use the left side of her body. So far in book one beside Adah, nobody in the family thought that the Congolese might not lack modesty, but is merely living and surviving in a different environment. I think the reason for this is because Ruth May said "Nobody cares that she 's bad on one whole side because they 've all got their own handicap children or a mama with no feet, or their eye put out. When you take a look out the door, why, there goes somebody with something missing off of them and not even embarrassed of it” (53). Adah views her body as a tool like rest of the Congolese which is a reason that she’s more connected with the people there and sees a different side of them comparing to the rest of the

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