Literature Circle Notes on Book Two The Revelation

Reflection

A main topic that came up in our class’s discussion about Book Two in Revelations was how Methuselah could possibly be a metaphor for many different things. The main and most obvious connection that was made was Methuselah and the Price family. This was because like Methuselah the Price family was also in a way trapped in the Congo. Another topic we pondered on was “the Pygmies”. My specific group could not define “the Pygmies”; sadly, we thought they were animals of some sort. Yet when discussing our questions with other groups we came to the conclusion that they were actually a small tribal group of midgets. We also discussed how Ruth May compares herself to a green mamba snake; the Congos deadliest and quietest snake. It just seemed like a strange comparison that Ruth May had made. We discussed how Nathan Price seem to only be going on this missions for himself not necessarily for others and how this is an ego booster; much like Kravinsky. We also discussed how Nathan Price treats Orleana, his own wife, like she is just another one of his daughters. To close our discussion about Book Two in Revelations we discussed how different the lifestyles of the Price family are compared to the Congolese people. Mostly how the Congolese people had to learn survival skills at such a young age and how the young teenage girls already have babies of their own.