How It All Goes Down
Adah
- On the night before the big hunt, there's a big dance party. With drums!
- Early in the morning, the hunt is on. Here's the plan: the villagers surround a wide circle of grassland with a ring of fire. (It burns, burns, burns.)
- As the fire spreads inward, the animals will have no choice but to jump through the fire and get shot dead by the male hunters. And Leah.
- The women will go around, gather charred insects and small animals, and strip larger ones of their meat.
- It's barbaric to some (*cough* Rachel *cough*), but Adah observes that "all animals kill to survive, and we [humans] are animals" (4.3.12).