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Orleanna dedicated everything she had to being involved in the Civil Rights Movement. It seems as though she feels her family disrupted the peace in the Congo, and now owes it to the universe to use her white privilege to help in any way she could.

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"Nathan was something that happened to us, as devastating in its way as the burning roof that fell on the family Mwanza; with our fate scarred by hell and brimstone we still had to track our course. And it happened finally by the grace of hell and brimstone that I had to keep moving. I moved, and he stood still" (Kingsolver 348). This passage is a particularly important view of Orleanna's character. She had waited her entire married life to leave Nathan but no reason ever seemed substantial enough. He was the reason she lost her most precious daughter, and that was not something to be forgiven. She took her remaining daughters and left him without a second thought. Ruth May's death marked the beginning of Orleanna's new life.

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This photo depicts a women walking into a fog with her bags packed, which is similar to Orleanna's situation. She is unsure of her future, and this uncertainty can be represented by the inability to see through the fog.

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Book Five begins with Orleanna leaving Nathan in Kilanga with her daughters following closely behind. Orleanna felt that if she stopped moving, the grief of losing Ruth May would consume her. "As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out of me like a swimmer's long hair in water- So I just didn't stop" (Kingsolver 381). She returns to America with Adah, leaving Leah in Africa with Anatole.

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Leah is deeply affected by the loss of her sister because she feels that she is to blame.