Lit Circle Post

Today we talked about the rough summary of Bel and the Serpent and the significant things of the chapter. We haven't picked out jobs, but since I think character analysis will be most interesting to do, I'll go ahead with that. I actually just want to focus on Leah because when I read Judges, I thought that Leah is finally beginning to grow up, and she will be making alot of changes in this book 4. As you read, you find out about the hunt, how she betrays her father and doesn't care about what he thinks. I believe that she is making a great change and is helping out the Congolese people especially with schooling help with Anatole. Later on, she gets kind of cocky, if that is the right term and just loses her temper at the festival place where Tata Ndu's eldest son complains about how she, a woman couldn't have done it, and he throws the leg at her, and blood spatters on her and she retaliates at him by throwing it back. Everyone saw it as a disrespectful action and decides to throw things everywhere and then at the end there is pretty much no food left... Rachel did mention that she doesn't want to say it, but it's true that Leah is causing problems and she blames Leah for all of their problems. She also causes people to be scared because she won the vote at the meeting and Tata Kuvudundu scared the crap out of everyone about the Leopards and how they walk around like a man. She is both troublemaker and helper, and in the majority, she is a trouble maker, but as Tata Ndu says, Majority rules would only put thepot in the fire.