Leah Price:
As most of us have already discovered Leah has change tremendously throughout the book. In the beginning of Poisonwood Bible Leah was your typical daddy’s little girl; but as the book progressed she began to realize that she to has he own thoughts. She began to question her father. As the book continued Leah began to think more and more as an individual, until finally she totally rebels against her fathers will. In Exodus she states “I wouldn’t see my baby sister again, this I knew. But I hadn’t yet considered the loss of my father. I’d walked in his footsteps my whole life, and now without warning my body had fallen in line behind my mother.” I think this is when it finally hit her that she has completely became her own person
Adah Price:
As long as everyone could remember Adah never verbally spoke. In the beginning she was always the one being walked all over because of her disability. Yet, as the book progressed she felt a need to speak as she stated in one of her books in Exodus. “I have decided to speak, so there is the possibility of telling. Speaking became a matter of self-defense, since Mother seems to have gone mute, and with no one to testify to my place in the world I found myself at the same precipice I teetered upon when entering the first grade: gifted, or special education with the ear pulling Crawleys?” She too has changed; after the death of her baby sister, Ruth May, Adah came to realize that she too can also be similar to her sisters even though she is a “crooked little person”.
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