Literature Figure Eights

I gotta say our literature figure eight group has seemed to start off slowly, probably becauses were all busy familiarising ourselves with the text, etc. My job in the group is to catch subtle hints that may lead into broader themes of the story, commanalities, things of that nature. So for the only thing that I personally ran across was the concept of being "left behind" during one of Adah's Narration on page 62 , "Last of all came Adah the monster, Quasimodo, dragging her right side behing her left in her body's permanent stepsong sing: left...behind, left....behind." I think each of the girls, with the exception of Ruth May perhaps, are experiencing some feeling of left behind. For Rachel, its missing out on the adolescence she feels necessary, for Leah it is in the constant struggle in satisfying her father, and for Adah it is often being physically left behind because of her Handicap. Also, the Congolese population seems to be left behind in comparison the rest of the world. (not so much in genesis but more so in further chapters)