The Story Of Adah Price: A Beast In The Kingdom Dagny Mavilla 10th Grade

Adah Price has been surviving from the moment she was born. Surviving, not living. In The Poisonwood Bible, Kingsolver shows how Adah leads a very cynical existence, outcast to mostly everyone she knows (including her family), and hindered by a debilitating medical condition, makes it so that she must try her hardest just to keep her head above the water. As a consequence of this, her outlook is a pessimistic one; however, life in the Congo changes her view of the world and her own self into a more mature understanding. Through the eyes of the Congo she changes her originally sardonic view upon her own life, as she learns about the true sacrifices of life, and eventually comes to terms with her own existence, finally becoming a product of what the Congo had put her through in order to survive. Adah Price outgrows her old self to become something new. “That is what it means to be a beast in the kingdom.” (306)

Adah Price has always been a glass half empty kind of person. Her negative mindset is mostly due to her physical ailment and resulting outsider status, but this all changes in the Congo. Her opinion of herself is rather low and she compares herself to her twin sister when she says, “I am a lame gallimaufry and she [Leah]...