Passage: "I would no different from the next one, if I hadn't paid my own little part in blood. I trod on Africa without a thought, straight from our family's divinely inspired beginning to our terrible end. In between, in the midst of all those streaming nights and days darkly colored, smelling of earth, I believe there lay some marrow of honest instruction. Sometimes I can nearly say what it was. If I could, I would fling it at others, I'm afraid, at risk to their ease. I'd slide this awful story off my shoulders, flatten it, sketch out our crimes like a failed battle plan and shake it in the faces of my neighbors, who are wary of me already. But Africa shifts under my hands, refusing to be party to failed relations. Refusing to be any place at all, or any thing but itself: the animal kingdom making hay in the hay the kingdom of glory. So there it is, take your place. Leave nothing for a haunted old bat to use for disturbing the peace. Nothing, save for the life of her own."
Orleanna expresses how the terrible situation she left had been partially her fault. She had known, deep down inside, how loveless and dominating her marriage had been, but she ignored the truth of it all to continue her status in society. The personification that was created within the country of Africa creates an emphasize on how difficult it was to go against religion and society. The world did not approve of her decision to change and therefore, disturb the peace. This quote characterizes Orleanna has an extremely strong willed individual that went against the mainstream of society.
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