[27] "Deuteronomy"?

Deuteronomy in this novel is the chapter that really stands out from the rest. It is more like an essay and the argument is shown in the first sentence of the chapter where it states: "Time is a great deadener. People forget, get bored, grow old, go away." [93] I felt like this was basically the turning point of the book, because preceding to the the next few chapters to the end, its what happens to Jeanette. She seemed to forget, what was really important to her when she was small, the church, her foster mom, she got bored with the life she was living, being a church helper, or being really devoted to the church, and she went away, when she gave up the church and moved out. The author is trying to show the change in Jeanette's life, from the previous chapter, "Numbers where we still see her as a kid, to the Chapter after "Joshua," where the we can picture Jeanette as more of an adult.