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Understanding Adah's Allusion To A Biblical Story

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Adah’s allusion to a Biblical story helps the reader understand Adah’s feeling about the problem with feeling like she has sinned compared to a man named “Daniel” that has not sinned and has done nothing wrong. Adah’s chapter is in the second book named Revelation she reflects on her experience with the tiger and talked about a man named Daniel which has never sinned or done any wrong. “Adah enters the “Lion's Den” just like Daniel has but without his pure and unblemished soul, instead she has a soul spiced with the flavors of vice that makes for a tasty meal” (Kingsolver 135), this shows that she is full of sin and is more likely to be attacked by the lion compared to someone like Daniel that is pure and has not sinned. Daniel 1:1-4 is from

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