Home is “another country, a mother tongue, a relationship-- “It’s possible to live within the ambit of a person not a country”-- an organization or political party” (Gready). Exile, on the other hand, “is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted…” and is “a potent, even enriching” experience
(Said). While in The Poisonwood Bible there are many instances of this separation from home-- the Witch Doctor’s exile from his village after his murder of Ruth May, Anatole’s exile from typical African society because of his relationship with Leah, the Price’s exile from the …show more content…
This was alienating in nature, but exile also proved to be an enriching experience as well. The exile brought about the election of Lumumba, which in turn proved to produce ideas that would benefit the Congo. Lumumba’s election also resulted in higher morale. The
Congolese were still loyal and remembered what could have been under Lumumba after his murder. The Congolese passion and loyalty for Lumumba, however, could possibly have resulted from the trials that the Congo was going through at the time. In Leah’s case, malaria made her feelings exaggerated and she will forever love Anatole more severely than she would have had she not had malaria (“when I fell into [my first love], I was drugged with the exotic delirium of malaria, so mine is omnipotent” (Kingsolver 417)), and the same can possibly be said for the
Congolese and Lumumba. The Congo was in a state of unrest when they voted for Lumumba, and it is possible that the Congolese were so desperate to have their own Independence and have
Bocox 5 their own leader that they became disproportionately loyal to Lumumba and his pro-Independence ideology. The Congolese were able to have a love of country that was
(Said). While in The Poisonwood Bible there are many instances of this separation from home-- the Witch Doctor’s exile from his village after his murder of Ruth May, Anatole’s exile from typical African society because of his relationship with Leah, the Price’s exile from the …show more content…
This was alienating in nature, but exile also proved to be an enriching experience as well. The exile brought about the election of Lumumba, which in turn proved to produce ideas that would benefit the Congo. Lumumba’s election also resulted in higher morale. The
Congolese were still loyal and remembered what could have been under Lumumba after his murder. The Congolese passion and loyalty for Lumumba, however, could possibly have resulted from the trials that the Congo was going through at the time. In Leah’s case, malaria made her feelings exaggerated and she will forever love Anatole more severely than she would have had she not had malaria (“when I fell into [my first love], I was drugged with the exotic delirium of malaria, so mine is omnipotent” (Kingsolver 417)), and the same can possibly be said for the
Congolese and Lumumba. The Congo was in a state of unrest when they voted for Lumumba, and it is possible that the Congolese were so desperate to have their own Independence and have
Bocox 5 their own leader that they became disproportionately loyal to Lumumba and his pro-Independence ideology. The Congolese were able to have a love of country that was