10 Quotes from 2nd Reading

This time we were made to find 10 quotes (two from each chapter) that were in some way signifigant and then to give a breif explination of why or how we find them so.
Leah:
1."In the begining my sisters bustled indoors, playing the role of mother's helper with more enthusiasm than they'd ever shown for housework in all their born days."(35)
This quote significant to the book as a whole. It shows much of the behavior and dinamics of the Price household. Apparently the 3 daughters being here observed are rather of a less than "mother's helper" status. I imagine Leah follows suit.
2."Not everyone can see it, but my father's heart is as large as his hands.And his wisdom as great."(42)
Leah in this quote gives us heart pure opinion of her father. She sees him as a Saint himself. In her eyes, he can do little wrong. After this quote she proceeds to tell us of all her fathers wordly and not acomplishments. This gives us a ligitamite explination as to why she feels so devoted to her father and it also gives us an insight to her "father-follower" role she will most likely play throughout the rest of The Poisonwood Bible.
Rachel:
1."As a matter of fact, a man walked into a tree in front of our house and knocked out a tooth, thanks to Mother's stretch pants"(43-44)
This quote is interesting because it not only shows Rachel's veiw of the Congolese people by the attitude exuded in this quote, but also the Congolese people's oppinion to the Price family's attire by the contents of the quote. You can also see what it is that Rachel chooses to tell us about; clothes and appearences.
2."He had envisioned a baptism. The whole point of Easter in July was supposed to be an altar call, followed by a joyful procession down to the river with children all dressed in white getting saved. Father would stand waist deep out there like the Baptist Saint John and hold up one hand, and in the name of Father and tha Son and the Holy Ghost he would dunk them under, one by one. The river would be jam-packed with purified souls."(46)
You can see here, what the Prices, the reverend particularly not only envisioned for their Easter in July, but most likely for their entire soul-purifying stay in Congo. We can see how hard reality has or will hit.
Ruth May:
1."He's near about big, like my sisters, but doesn't wear a thing on God's green earth but an old gray shirt without any buttons and baggy gray underpants. He has a big old round belly with his belly button sticking out like a black marble. I can tell it's him because of the shirt and underpants, not because of the belly button. They all have those. I thought they were all fat, but Father said no. They're hungry as can be, and don't get their vitamins. And still God makes them look fat. I reckon that's what they get for being the Tribes of Ham."(50)
Ruth May is the youngest and their for perhap the most ignorant. She recognises these "other" beings by their skin and cothes, but by nothing else. Ruth May also believes that the reason these people are starving is because God is punishing them for being the Tribes of Ham. This is interesting to me because it shows us what types of stereo types Ruth May has and I wonder if they'll change.
2."They won't talk about the bad things in front of my sisters, but me I can listen all the livelong day while I'm getting me a banana in the kitchen house and peeling it."(51)
It seems like though, Ruth May is young and inocent she is sill constantly being underestimated by people, eespesially her family and maybe even us. Ruth May seems to comprehend everything she hears just as well as any of her sisters would but, because she is young, her mother pays her little mind.
Adah:
1."Living in the Congo shakes open the prison house of my disposition and lets all the wicked hoodoo Adahs run forth"(55)
I don't quite understand this quote but, it still seems significant to me because she is telling us plainly what the Congo is doing to her and how she is reacting to it. We have heard many comparison between the Congo and Bethleham, but this is particularly significant because Adah tells us so plainly how she feels about it.
2."Leah went first as always, Goddess of the Hunt, her weasel-colored pixie haircut springing with energy, her muscles working together like parts of a clock. Then came the rest of us: Ruth May with pigtails flying behind her, hurrying mightily because she is youngest and beleives the last shal be first. And then Rachel, our family's own Queen of Sheba, blinking her white eyelashes, ficking her long whitish hair as if she were the palomino horse she once craved to own. Queen Rachel drifted along several paces behind, looking elsewhere. She was almost sixteen and above it all, yet still unwilling for us to find something good without her. Last of all came Adah the monster, Quasimodo, dragging her right side behind her left in her body's permanent stepsong sing:left... behind, left... behind."(62)
Adah seems jelous of her sisters and lonely. Her family doesn't understand or acknowledge her. She is always being left behind and i think she longs to lead her sisters, to be first in line, or just not last.
Leah:
1."My father witnessed the progress of every new leaf and fat flower bud. I walked behind him, careful not to trample on the vines"(64)
This again confirms the relationship between Leah and her father. Litteraly, Leah follows her father being carefull not to trend on his vines.
2."Once in a great while we just have to protect her."(68)
This is the first significant quote i found regarding Mrs.Price. Her daughters though, they do not cherish their mother, feel some attachment to her and want in many ways to protect her.