Character+Descriptions

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 * Orleanna Price**: She is the mother of four daughters, Rachel, Leah, Adah, and Ruth May, whom a long with her husband, Nathan Price, travels to the Belgian Congo so that Nathan can perform his missionary work in the village of Kilanga. Through the majority of the book, Orleanna seems to be inferior to her husband and seems to only be there to help carry out her husband's will. It is not until the death of her youngest daughter that she finally decides to stop obeying her husband and starts making her own decisions.
 * Rachel Price**: Rachel is the oldest of th four daughters. At the age of fifteen, she struggles the most to adapt in Kilanga. Her beautiful long, blond hair attracts the most attraction, thus making it harder for her to adapt. She mostly worries about her looks and doesn't change much throughout the course of the book. She is the type that feels like the world should only revolve around herself.
 * Leah Price:** Leah is one of twins and is the one daughter who wants to impress her father the most. That is, until she loses her belief in religion and starts to focus on political aspects. It is then when she begins feeling hatred for her father. Her unselfish nature helped her make the decision of devoting her life to help better the life of the Congolese People.
 * Adah Price:** Adah is the other twin, a quiet but very intelligent human being that was born with hemiplegia. This condition paralyzed the whole left side of her body, leaving her as a intellectual spectator that chooses not to talk. Although half-paralyzed, she is a gifted child who like to see and read things backwards (palindromes amaze her). Throughout the course of the book, she matures but still has that quiet, observative nature in her.
 * Ruth May Price:** Ruth May is the youngest of the daughters and is the only one to die in the Congo.She was an an adventurous little upon their arrival to the Congo. Throughout her experience at the Congo, she is the first to make friends, she breaks her arm, gets malaria and eventually dies from a snake bite. Her death is the climax of the story.