Among the Believers

Jones begins as an infidel among believers but at the end she feels differently. She feels
at peace and comforted in her faith. She still does not necessarily feel accepted by others who
share her faith because her background is different from others.
When people discover Jones background, they find it charming and idiosyncratic,
suggesting that they are unaccustomed to someone who has not always believed and that they
cant imagine growing up that way. It also seems like they are making assumptions and putting
people into nice neat boxes; one box for the people who have faith and a separate one for those
who dont. They dont know what box to put someone who didnt have faith but then found it
later. Jones response to them is an attitude of acceptance of these stereotypes. She understands
that to most people it is an unusual background.
Jones use of personal experience is realistic and convincing. She brings characters and
dialog in that helps you understand how she felt and how she perceived others treatment of her
and her faith, or lack of faith. It does not matter if the quotes where inaccurate, just that they
showed her take on what happened and how it influenced her.
Jones could not get satisfactory answers to her theological questions because she was
searching for answers that no one had. She eventually finds a connection with a passage that
made her believe because she pictured it and felt the power of the passage as she said them
aloud.