With this false sense of security, Nathan continually makes advances on the natives about the tribe’s faith in Christianity, which only isolates them further. The children begin to notice that the tone between the family and the tribe has grown into something less-than-friendly, but are too afraid to do anything about it, as they fear it will clash with their parents’. Orleanna, however, is too blinded to realize this, while Nathan simply does not care. And, when Orleanna ignores their fears so as to satisfy her husband, the girls turn to Anatole as a parental figure, who, alongside the rest of the host tribe, are beginning to turn on the Prices. After schooling, the girls would sometimes sneak out and explore the area, which would prove to be more and more dangerous every day. As always, however, the schedule did not work perfectly. Simply leaving one’s area is enough to put one’s life at risk.ĭuring the day, Nathan would go out to talk to natives about his faith, the girls would go to school with Anatole, and Orleanna would stay in their area and keep house, just as she did at home. There is no government no regulations nothing. It does not take long for the family to discover what life is like in the Congo. He was one of the few people in the region that spoke English, and would serve as the girls’ tutor. Upon their arrival in the Congo, the Prices were greeted by Anatole Ngemba. Orleanna encourages this entirely, and takes their four daughters-the twins Leah and Adah (who has a minor case of mental retardation), Rachel and Ruth May. A Baptist minister of fifteen years, Nathan was assigned a mission no one else would dream of taking: a one-year stay in the Belgian Congo in Africa in order to convert the locals. He spends his life worshipping God and interrogating those who do not. Her husband, Nathan, is a man of the lord, and absolutely nothing else. Not blinded in the sense that she could not see anymore, per se, but in the sense that she could not see anything beyond her husband’s orders. Synopsis: Orleanna Price was blinded on her wedding day. Produced by Fernando Meirelles, Steven Spielberg & Brian Grazer

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