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    Throughout the Poisonwood Bible‚ Kingsolver utilizes the experience of the Congo to enhance and rediscover the faith of three of the Price daughters. At the age of fifteen‚ Rachel‚ the Price’s oldest child‚ reveals her true beliefs of her religion through her petulant remarks of the Congo. During her stay in Africa‚ Rachel only talks of possessions she left behind. Rachel misses items such as toilet paper and sets of clean clothes. She‚ however‚ doesn’t mention the bible in the list of items she

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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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    that there are so many connections in the midst‚ humanity should simply practice and preach multiculturalism and assimilation. Nevertheless‚ it can’t always be as straightforward and uncomplicated for some people. In Barbara 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

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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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    Two Contrasting Places Barbara Kingsolver’s highly acclaimed fiction novel is a truly academic work of art created to address the concepts of guilt‚ religion‚ and foreign 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

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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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    Hannah Johnson Poisonwood Bible Essay August 19‚ 2013 Kingsolver‚ Barbara. The Poisonwood Bible. New York: HarperFlamingo‚ 1998. Print. Morally ambiguous characters -- characters whose behavior discourages readers from identifying them as purely evil or purely good -- are at the heart of many works of literature. Choose a novel (Poisonwood Bible in this case) in which a morally ambiguous character plays a pivotal role. Then write an essay in which you explain how the character can be viewed

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    The Poisonwood Bible contains many themes throughout the novel. It is interesting to see how the characters react towards certain themes‚ especially the theme regarding justice and injustice in the Congo as well as globally. Justice can be defined by many as the quality of being just or righteous. Most of the Price family reacts to this in the same way‚ but Adah responds in sort of a different way. Adah Price is a very intelligent girl. Although intelligent‚ she isn’t the compassionate one between

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    more meaningful. Symbolism is often recognised as an important part of an extended text used to enhance a theme or idea of a story to a deeper level. This is why symbolism is a significant feature of a novel. An example of this is in the novel The Poisonwood Bible written by Barbara Kingslover. The story is set in 1959 and follows an obsessive Baptist minister named Nathan Price who drags his wife (Orleanna) and four daughters‚ (Adah‚ Rachel‚ Ruth-May and Leah) deep into the heart of the Congo on a

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