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"When I finally got up with sharp grains imbedded in my knees I found, to my surprise I no longer believed in God."
(Kingsolver 171)

In the middle Book Two of The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, the reader finds Adah points of view become wider and more knowledgeable about the world and the socioeconomic differences between countries and public relations. Adah's quote is found after the Price Family has found out Congo is about to hold an election day and claim independence from the Belgian government. Adah notices the frequents death and their strange normality in eyes of the Congolese and recalls once in her hometown's church in Georgia, USA, her Sunday school teacher, Betty Nagy, taught her a child's entrance to heaven is based on the child's place of birth and skin color. Adah realizes how ridiculousness this idea is, raises her hand, and pointed out her contradictory point of view that got her in trouble and as a result she concluded she no longer believed in God. I chose this quote because the word God in this quote is metaphorical  for a God that judges people based on demographical and soicioeconomical factors that she has always grown up with. The simple fact that she spoke up impresses me and the fact that she stopped believing in that judgmental filtering God makes me hope she now believe in the God that treats everyone the same. 

Analysis: Barbara, through Adah, provide a lot of twisted blasphemies that are justified by the specific conditions that caused the blasphemies to be said. This quote shows Adah leaning towards having an Internal Locus of Control, in terms of the Locus of Control theory and the reader finds she is the fastest at finding her identity instead of being satisfied with what people tell her to be. Her credibility is at an all time high.