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    Poisonwood Bible The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover is a novel of a family that experiences hardships and renewal. Their journey to the Congo is told by a wife of a minister and their four daughters. Nathan Price is a God fearing Baptist who takes his family to the Belgian Congo on a mission. The Congo is at a critical point in both its religious and government views. The Price family is coming from Georgia and has no real sense of the experiences that will forever change their

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    Character Analysis: Orleanna Price The Poinsonwood Bible‚ by Barbara Kingsolver‚ tells the story of a Southern Baptist family spending their time on a missionary trip to the Congo. This story‚ which takes place over a span of 30 years‚ primarily engrosses the Price’s involvement with the Congolese people‚ a kind very different and much more “savage” than themselves. The Poinsonwood Bible‚ told by Reverend Price’s wife‚ Orleanna‚ and four daughters‚ Rachel‚ Leah‚ Adah‚ and Ruth May‚ shows the

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    By: Leah KOTLARSKY MACBETH “In literature‚ evil often triumphs but never conquers.” I think this means that evil may seem as if it won but in the end it will be defeated. I agree with this statement. This quote applies to Macbeth by William Shakespeare written in the genre of a play. The setting began in Scotland. Scotland is in chaos. The personal servants of the gracious and noble King Duncan had brutally murdered him. The king’s two sons Malcolm‚ the prince of Cumberland and his brother Donalbain

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    Kingsolver’s novel The Poisonwood Bible‚ she introduces the Price family and its most important member‚ Nathan Price. Giving up their house in sunny Georgia‚ the Prices embark their new lives in the Belgian Congo as Christian missionaries. It was only until it was too late for the Price family‚ especially Nathan‚ to realize how many damaging effects could be done by ignorantly imposing one’s culture in another cultural location instead of accepting the differences. Nathan Price led his wife and his

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    interference. The novel follows the exceedingly religious Price family as they venture from the small southern town of Bethlehem‚ Georgia into the unrefined African jungles of the Congo. As Nathan Price‚ accompanied by his wife and four daughters‚ attempts to save as many souls as their new African home presents them with‚ he and his family must first learn to accept their new community for what it truly is. The contrasting differences between the Price family’s Georgia home and their new lives in the Congo

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    was in the Congo. These countries may have not been aware of their influence at the time‚ but the outcome nonetheless was drastic. Cultural misunderstandings were the ultimate catalyst for the Congo’s destruction. In Barbara Kingsolver’s novel The Poisonwood Bible published in 1998 she exposes how cultural ignorance creates problems. With her chosen syntax‚ point of view‚ and time gap of each narrator Kingsolver exposes how close mindedness creates unfulfilled results because individuals can not adapt

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    About The Poisonwood Bible The Poisonwood Bible‚ Barbara Kingsolver’s most heralded novel‚ is the story of the Price family and their journey into the African Congo as Baptist missionaries in the late 1950’s. The novel is told from the perspective of the four Price children - Rachel‚ Leah‚ Adah‚ and Ruth May - with flashback scenes interspersed‚ told from the perspective of Orleanna Price‚ the children’s mother. The book had tremendous success not only because of its dramatic power‚ but also because

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    message. The Poisonwood Bible‚ by Barbara Kingsolver‚ is a novel about the Prices‚ a religious family who moves from Georgia to Kilanga--a fictional village in the Belgian Congo. Their story‚ which parallels the western emergence into the post-colonial era‚ is told through multiple narrators: Nathan Price--the father and only male family member‚ Orleanna—Nathan Price’s wife‚ and their four daughters--Rachel‚ Leah‚ Adah‚ Ruth May. Kingsolver wrote her novel through the eyes of the five Price women to

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    The Poisonwood Bible Question 1 “What is the conqueror’s wife if not a conquest herself?” This quote sums up Orleanna’s feeling of guilt she has towards her daughter’s death and towards the crimes of the US against the Congo. By identifying herself as the conqueror’s wife‚ Orleanna places herself in a position where she is not the chief criminal but connected enough to feel responsibility. In Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible‚ she uses diction‚ imagery‚ and selection of detail

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    “The Poisonwood Bible” is mostly based on 1960s Congo‚ although the story continues until after that. The author‚ Barbara Kingslover‚ draws on the independence and political conflict in the Congo when telling the story of the Prices‚ a missionary family‚ during their time there. The Congo declared independence from Belgium in 1960 and elected a prime minister‚ Patrice Lumumba‚ who was placed under house arrest and murdered only months after becoming prime minister. Joseph-Désiré Mobutu replaced him

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