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Book 4, Chapter 58
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Poisonwood Bible, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Freedom, Growth, and Coming-of-age
Religion and Faith
Women and Sexism
Race, Racism, and Culture
Imperialism
Summary
Analysis
Adah notes that she was not present when Ruth May was born, but she was there when Ruth May died. She sees her little sister take her final breaths, her face turning blue. With this, Ruth May’s life ends.
Adah is calm, dispassionate even, as she describes her sister’s death. Paradoxically, her calmness makes the death scene even more emotional.
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