The Last of Genesis.

"Many Kikongo words resemble English words backwards and have antithetical meanings: Syebo is a horrible, destructive rain, that just exactly does not do what it says backwards."
(Kingsolver 74.)

Near the end of the book of Genesis of The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, the narrator is switch to Adah Price, the other twin who has a medical condition called Hemiplegia. Still using first-person point of view, Barbara gives most reports and insights through the character of Adah. She seems to appreciate other cultures and shows an interest in learning the language of the village Kilanga. Adah has a unique hobby of reading backwards and creating palidromes which makes her incredibly smart. Adah's mind came across this thought during a Sunday's dinner when her dad was sharing a parable of Congolese boys working together to make a car run without a fan belt in the engine. I chose this quote because it highlights Barbara's unique foreshadowing skills since one can't help to wonder the purpose this was to serve. This quote provides an eerie mood and since Adah was chosen as the character to introduce this fact, there must be some importance.

Analysis: Adah is the only narrator who have the highest credibility and sense of understanding of the world. Since she points out the fact that a word that means a fatal storm backwards spells the word obeys seems to be kind of ironic since that is exactly what her father failed to do when Mama Tataba, the Price's maid, warned him about touching the Poisonwood Tree when he was trying to garden and made her leave.