Once Adah and her mother escape the ugliness of the Congo back in Africa and return to Georgia, Adah attends college and later on medical school. With this knowledge, she goes on to become an epidemiologist.
Throughout the story, Adah is exiled with many different hardships. Her life was a constant rollercoaster filled with various ups and downs whether it was overcoming her hemiplegia with the help of a neurologist to losing her younger sister, Ruth May. All these situations has led her to become stronger to allow her to chase her dreams and be successful. Despite her and her mother abandoning her father in Africa and moving back to Georgia, it doesn't pull her down. She is even more determined to go to school and receive her credentials.
Within this novel, she is looked down upon because her sister seems like the "perfect" twin while Adah sees herself as an observer other than a participant. Adah sought out to be more of a "cynical" thinker who was completely different from her sister. All because Adah preferred to view things backwards other than forwards. As Adah matures, she finds the religion of science. With this interest, she is able to find a way to see the world in a different angle and overcome her handicap. She grows to love and admire the viruses she studies and goes on to study them in college.
With Adah being "cut off from home", it delivers her to a whole new lifestyle to where it started off as the worst experience ever and turned into a really great one in the end. Pretty much like the sum of the book and how this one character illuminates into the whole novel.
I enjoyed reading your essay, Chrystal! Your detail and support for your thesis statement is excellent. Although, I would suggest providing a longer conclusion paragraph that ties up all the loose ends! Overall, it was a good essay! :) Cant wait to see what else you produce in the near future!
ReplyDeleteChrystal! Your thesis stays on point and relates to the other paragraphs from start to finish and that is an amazing writing trait to have because your essay was interesting all the way through. One thing I would recommend is to give an experience or example on some of your explanations like your comparison of Adah and Leah in the fourth paragraph. Besides that Chrystal, this was a solid paper and I loved the entire time reading it, especially that reference of the roller coaster going through ups and downs. I can't wait to read more of your work throughout the year!
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