Aviance Carlisle
Harvey
APLC
9-7-14
In Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible Nathan Price leaves home yet,he finds that home remains significant in his life; home’s significant to instill the morals that he lived by before his move to Congo and how they were able to be heightened afterwards, leading him to develop a more controlling personality while inflicting his beliefs on others.
Nathan fought in War World II and almost lost his life, but was lucky enough to escape the death around him and move him and his family to Congo, Africa; he is also a christian preacher .Kingsolver developed Nathan to believe that those who do not comply by his morals deserve to be punished by himself or God, which sets up conflict in the near future for him due to him not fully understanding the culture and its people that he has indulged in in the Congo. Not only did his morals hold true to him, but his arrogance as well. He had that mindset before living in Congo and the way that he portrayed it was by trying to convince the Congolese people that his view and morals are the right ones and anything else is wrong. In the text Methuselah, a bird, symbolizes the Congo and its inability to prosper. …show more content…
Methuselah spent most of his life “caged away from flight and truth”; much like the Congolese people who have been forced to abide by things that they were told that didn’t necessarily make sense to them by Nathan (pg 211). Eventually Nathan’s free will to manipulate the minds of the Congolese people empowered him to the point of people’s reliability on him left them with “no muscle tone in his wings” ,which shows the lack of structure on the Congolese people and Methuselah and with the lack of structure the demand for control is intriguing which brought on Nathan to embody the duties that were at hand (pg
Harvey
APLC
9-7-14
In Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible Nathan Price leaves home yet,he finds that home remains significant in his life; home’s significant to instill the morals that he lived by before his move to Congo and how they were able to be heightened afterwards, leading him to develop a more controlling personality while inflicting his beliefs on others.
Nathan fought in War World II and almost lost his life, but was lucky enough to escape the death around him and move him and his family to Congo, Africa; he is also a christian preacher .Kingsolver developed Nathan to believe that those who do not comply by his morals deserve to be punished by himself or God, which sets up conflict in the near future for him due to him not fully understanding the culture and its people that he has indulged in in the Congo. Not only did his morals hold true to him, but his arrogance as well. He had that mindset before living in Congo and the way that he portrayed it was by trying to convince the Congolese people that his view and morals are the right ones and anything else is wrong. In the text Methuselah, a bird, symbolizes the Congo and its inability to prosper. …show more content…
Methuselah spent most of his life “caged away from flight and truth”; much like the Congolese people who have been forced to abide by things that they were told that didn’t necessarily make sense to them by Nathan (pg 211). Eventually Nathan’s free will to manipulate the minds of the Congolese people empowered him to the point of people’s reliability on him left them with “no muscle tone in his wings” ,which shows the lack of structure on the Congolese people and Methuselah and with the lack of structure the demand for control is intriguing which brought on Nathan to embody the duties that were at hand (pg