Lit circle #2 Response

I thought that this literature circle was much better than our last one. We were able to fully dive into our conversations and analysis of the book. We had more of an idea of what to discuss and how to do because we had previous experience. I also felt that our class discussion was much more informative and had more breadth. This was because each group was able to pick their best conversations or topics and expand on them with the rest of the class where as last lit circle we just wrote our significant points up on the board which made it more difficult to build off of each others points.
In our Literature circle we mainly discussed how the four girls were changed throughout this section. Adah felt even more insignificant and worthless than before. She felt this way when her family abandoned her to the soldier ants. No one seemed to care about her and in her crippled state she had trouble caring for herself as well. Rachel has changed significantly as well. It seems that the Congo is slowly but surly destroying her spirit. While discussing this as a class we found that the shattering of her mirror was a great metaphor for the shattering of her beautiful life. In this section Rachel is given the opportunity of change and needs to learn to depend on herself not only on herself but, like brothers fowls said, to rely on the Congo. Leah begins to peel away from her father, and has currently stuck herself on Anatole. She follows him now, and feel love towards him. Leah is also beginning to feel a great sense of guilt about Adah. She feels that she abandoned her in the whom, in the jungle(for the lion), and once again to the soldier ants. Ruth May is changing too. Her sickness took away her vitality and spirit. She is sluggish and cares little about anything anymore. Her strong spirit and out-going nature have both shriveled away.