A Political Allegory Of The Poisonwood Bible

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The History of Africa *“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.” (2) *A political allegory is the theme of The Poisonwood Bible. A political allegory is where a story is told and on the surface of the story there is a meaning but as you dig deeper and understand the reading more, you start to understand the deeper political meaning. In The Poisonwood Bible the surface of the story is that a family is going to Africa on a missionary trip to help natives of Congo believe in god. As the story goes on though the reader sees the deeper meaning which show how each of the 5 different women take and how they let guilt of the events that happened in the Congo affect them. …show more content…
When African Americans were brought to America they were sold to wealthy white men that owned plantations. These plantations mostly consisted of tobacco and sugar products. When these African Americans were tired of being treated like property and the felt the same way which sparked a civil war.
*Hundreds of years after the civil war the rights of african americans had the same right caucasians but they were treated with extreme disrespect, and racism.The Jim Crow laws stated that all african people primarily in the south should be treated as they are less than a white person. The south put these laws in place by making anything that an african american and a white person would like to do have separate