The biggest reoccurring theme in the Poisonwood Bible is the cultural arrogance of the United States. At the beginning of the book the reader hears Ruth May say‚ “Rex Minton said we better not go to the Congo on account of the cannibal natives would boil us in a pot and eat us up.” This was the ignorance that the Americans were saying‚ and the reader knows the kid didn’t come up with that by himself. Nathan embodies the epitome of what the Congolese view of white people. The white people have forced
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In The Poisonwood Bible (1998)‚ author Barbara Kingsolver uses an array of stylistic features to influence the meanings that the readers make of the text. Perhaps the most prominent aspects of style employed are the manipulations in narrative voice. The novel has five narrators‚ the mother and four daughters of the Price family. Kingsolver has created a unique voice and personality for each of the Price girls by using specific diction‚ syntax‚ and sentence structure depending on which narrative voice
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The parallels between The Epic of Gilgamesh‚ translated by Benjamin R. Foster‚ and the Genesis stories‚ from The Hebrew Bible‚ are uncanny. The overall theme of these stories talks about divine intervention and questions the human condition of mortality. Both of these infamous literary works address the fact that humans are the only known species capable of abstract thinking‚ moral judgment‚ and meta-cognition. While continuous belief compares this ability with the divine‚ the human life is limited
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We take for granted the little luxuries in life. Items such as showers‚ socks‚ toothbrushes seem normal for us to have. What we do not realize is that in 2012 there were nearly 633‚782 homeless people in the United States who would have really appreciated those hot showers or that clean toothbrush. Many people are not as fortunate as we are‚ and we should thank God for that. "He who gives to the poor will lack nothing‚ but he who closes his eyes to them receives many curses." Proverbs 28:27. God
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Throughout the Bible as/in Literature there are many characters who undergo some sort of suffering. A character that specifically sticks out is Eve‚ the mother of all living things. While Eve is one of the first people to live on the earth‚ she is also the first to experience great suffering that she will remember‚ and pay the price for the rest of her life. Eve’s suffering is significant in the following three ways: experiencing great labor in childbearing‚ desiring her husband‚ and being permanently
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Common Relationship Myths Relationships within the family and outside family are subject to constant debates as being an abstract and indefinable aspect of human life; they remain very much confused and uncertain. In fact‚ human relationships are very much subjective. The depth‚ meaning‚ happiness etc.‚ differ from person to person. Following the exact path of a successful relationship in one person’s life may not be equally beneficial or another one. Yet there are certain commonly accepted modes
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Clothing and how girls/women are to dress is definitely not a grey area in the Bible. In I Timothy 2:9 and10 we are told what to adorn ourselves with. “I also want women to dress modestly‚ with decency and propriety‚ not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes but with good works‚ appropriate for women who profess to worship God.” What a beautiful sight it is to see a lady with great modesty! Not just on the inside but also in what she wears! I have a few such special women of God
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Myths About Africa Africa continues to suffer from a long tradition of neglect. Being seen as the “dark continent”‚ many people begin to assume that all of Africa is poor. There are many myths about Africa today that seem inevitable to forget. Novels‚ movies‚ television and all modern media play a very important role in how Western society views Africa. Savage Africans are the lowest of the lowest in Western film. As this is the only aspect of what Westerners see about African culture‚ it is
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References: Towns‚ E. H. (1996). Illustrated Bible Survey. Nashville: B&H Publishing Group.
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In literature‚ writers take different approaches in their narration in order to accurately convey their 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
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