Hunt Like a Girl
Living in everyday society there are certain things that are expected of you, they’re not written down as any law but everyone knows them and almost everyone abides by them. In Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible the Price family has to exchange their old morals that they were raised apon for some completely different. The Prices were completely unprepared for the life ahead of them; they thought that would arrive the Congo and start ¨calling the shots¨ (22) but that didn’t seem to be the case.
The entire Price family is a astonished by how completely different and strange the congolese life is from their own. They are even taken aback by what the people wear stating that ¨Women are expected to wear just the one style …show more content…
Like when Leah was given a bow and quiver full of arrows by Anatole, once she had learnt how to use them properly she wanted to help the men of the village hunt. This idea was a huge violation of the gender roles which of course made every man in the village unaccepting of Leah’s request. But due to the harsh circumstances that they all were in at that time Tata Kuvudundu allowed it. Obviously some of the men were upset about this but it wasn’t really a problem until Leah delivered the final kill to a impala that they were all hunting. She had been the one to kill it and not Gebenye; tata kuvunduddus son. But simply for the fact of Leah being female he calls her ¨Á , baki¨ (349) meaning thief when she attempts to take the impala for herself. However Nelson deffends Leah and simultaneously insulting Geben stating ¨where was your aim, nkento? … ¨ , ¨Nelson had ridiculed Gebenye’s aim by calling him nkento. A woman ¨ (349) . The whole plan of this segment of writing is to show that Leah is unaccepting of the traditional way of the congolese, and how she wants to prove the congolese men wrong by showing what she had accomplished. Sadly though she is only ridiculed for what she had accomplished being called a thief and not gaining any respect from them except for Nelson who had already known what Leah was capable of. With this paragraph Kingsolver was trying to show that even
Living in everyday society there are certain things that are expected of you, they’re not written down as any law but everyone knows them and almost everyone abides by them. In Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible the Price family has to exchange their old morals that they were raised apon for some completely different. The Prices were completely unprepared for the life ahead of them; they thought that would arrive the Congo and start ¨calling the shots¨ (22) but that didn’t seem to be the case.
The entire Price family is a astonished by how completely different and strange the congolese life is from their own. They are even taken aback by what the people wear stating that ¨Women are expected to wear just the one style …show more content…
Like when Leah was given a bow and quiver full of arrows by Anatole, once she had learnt how to use them properly she wanted to help the men of the village hunt. This idea was a huge violation of the gender roles which of course made every man in the village unaccepting of Leah’s request. But due to the harsh circumstances that they all were in at that time Tata Kuvudundu allowed it. Obviously some of the men were upset about this but it wasn’t really a problem until Leah delivered the final kill to a impala that they were all hunting. She had been the one to kill it and not Gebenye; tata kuvunduddus son. But simply for the fact of Leah being female he calls her ¨Á , baki¨ (349) meaning thief when she attempts to take the impala for herself. However Nelson deffends Leah and simultaneously insulting Geben stating ¨where was your aim, nkento? … ¨ , ¨Nelson had ridiculed Gebenye’s aim by calling him nkento. A woman ¨ (349) . The whole plan of this segment of writing is to show that Leah is unaccepting of the traditional way of the congolese, and how she wants to prove the congolese men wrong by showing what she had accomplished. Sadly though she is only ridiculed for what she had accomplished being called a thief and not gaining any respect from them except for Nelson who had already known what Leah was capable of. With this paragraph Kingsolver was trying to show that even