The Poisonwood Bible Lesson Plan

Adah recovers from her disability. Why was she able to recover after returning home? How does this impact her sense of self?

Adah is no longer the girl who is slanted—she meets a neurologist who believes that her physical impediment is fundamentally "all in her head," and proves through his course of treatment that he was right. However, Adah values what was in her head when she was both benduka and bendüka. She owes her mother her life and is bitter that her mother subjected them to such a father. She knows it is easier to move through the world without her disability, but wishes the world would acknowledge that this is the fault of the world rather than the disabled....