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The author is slowly revealing Nathan's true colors.

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Adah says "It was neither diabolical nor divine; it but shook the doors of the prison house of my disposition"

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Nathan needs to go, shabye.
This section goes more in depth on why Adah reads her books backwards

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The girls' mother seems to show the same kind of nervousness as the kids, despite trying to be the stern, protective one

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Adah has a secret sense of humor and is very intelligent. She is very observant and notices how their house is different from the others.

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Nathan seems to be more stern on what he says, and how he act with his daughters, Adah's gift is talked about more, and how she writes words backwards.

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The author slowly hints that Nathan isn't a kind preacher man but instead a man who is just salty all the time

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Nathan makes his daughters write verses out from the Bible. The daughters dislike doing this. Nathan learns that his way of farming for his garden will not work, so he re-structures the garden to have the plants on flood-proof embankments. We see that Africa had an influence on Nathan.

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Ruth May: "Father says that it is the lot of every young woman to learn humility and God plots for each her chosen way."
"But mama says, "But must they look on us as freaks of nature?"

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"It rained pitchforks, as Mother says. It rained cats and dogs frogs bogs then it rained snakes and lizards" pg. 58 It left Leah no choice but to get on her knees to pick up all of the seeds to replant.

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The girls considered ''The Verse" a punishment instead of giving it a positive outlook and the benefit.

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Ruth's views and descriptions of the world around her gives readers a better insight as to who these characters truly are. Although she is childlike, she seems to really grasp the characteristics of her family memebers.

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Adah has a different view on books and thinks uniquely different

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Nathan is just a sexist person which is crazy because he has 4 daughters and a wife

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Nathan has 4 daughters and a wife, and still acts sexist toward women. He finds it wasteful to send a girl to college.

One of the sisters mentioned that Adah read books backward, but it is only because she is gifted, not challenged.

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Nathan controls his family with a hard hand. He hits the girls if they do something bad in his eyes. His wife disagreed with him so he gave her a harsh look shutting her up. "When our fathers scorching eyes were not upon us"

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Adah has a very different thought process, but when she narrates, you can follow her thoughts as she uses palindromes and other unusual sentence structures. It seems like she uses this as her own language of sorts. She also likes to use this to poke fun at her sisters, showing her darker sense of humor.

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well what we read in this book is how adah is really intelligent and how their father is towards them and what he thinks of them going to college

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Nathan is a religious strict father. His perspective on women going to college is surprising considering he has 4 daughters and no sons.

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Adah's superior intellect allows her to enjoy an inconspicuous sense of humor.

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Nathan is misogynistic and this is clearly shown when he uses the simile of sending his daughters to college to "...pouring water into shoes". He assumes it it is a preposterous idea altogether.

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"Last of all came Adah the monster, Quasimodo, dragging her right side behind her left in her body's permanent stepsong sing: left...behind, left... behind

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Nathan gets mad at his wife for having a differnt point of view.

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We can see how Nathan behaves towards his wife through Ruth's perspective.

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Adah is the most mentally challenged of the sisters. However, she seems to be the most intelligent. For example, she can beat the cash register to finding a total. She also has an advanced vocabulary...even though she might write backwards sometimes!

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Adah has a ridiculously keen sense of things like mathematics, poetry, and palindromes. She has a strange sense of self, as she calls other people with deformities mongoloids. She has a fantastic sense of humor that is fairly dark and condescending towards her family. It is also worth noting that she narrates in third person. Possibly because of the way she views herself as different?

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Orleanna views the villagers with compassion because they wear themselves out, while Nathan views them as ignorant.

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-Nathan gets upset/mad when others have a different view from his
-"Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes"