The Poisonwood Bible

The Poisonwood Bible tells follows a missionary family named the Prices. In 1959, the Prices move from their home in Georgia to a village named Kilanga in the Belgian Congo, a colony of Belgium. Their story, is told through multiple female narrators. The narrator's, being female gives the story a feminine curveball as most epics of survival are told through a man’s point of view. The story is told through the Prices female characters. Their names are as follow: Orleanna, wife of the Nathan whom…

The complex usage of separate narrators in The Poisonwood Bible explores the idea that guilt is an individual emotion and processed by everyone differently. One of the chief concerns of Orleanna's guilt is the death of her youngest child, in response she drags her second youngest out of the reach of Africa “as if it was her last living act,” (Kingsolver 410). Orleanna's response to Ruth May’s demise has a twofold effect, first, she freed herself and Adah from the hold of Africa and Nathan Price.…

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…

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, is about a reverend who takes his family to the Belgian Congo in 1959. However, the novel is only narrated by the mother and the four daughters instead of their father, the reverend. The Poisonwood Bible has many biblical allusions throughout the novel. Even the characters in the novel allude to their biblical character counterpart. One of the daughters, Adah Price, in the novel has many similarities with the character Adah from the bible. Both of them…

Things Fall Apart, and The Poisonwood Bible contain plots where the characters leave their homes to create a new sense of home in future experiences. The Price family was forced to accept their new home based on their own decision to move to the Congo. Okonkwo created his home because of his shame for the past. These physical changes of home miss the deep points and allusions of the novels, only representing a small portion of the stories intent. Home is the central purpose in every action and…

nn-Katleen Pierre Louis Seraphin Miss Given World Literature Honors 5 February 2018 The poisonwood Bible This novel argues that everyone sees things in their own perspective; a story will be different if told by more than one person. Adah says that ‘everyone is trying to invent’ their own ‘version of the story;’ they each have their own opinion and reaction (Kingsolver 492). Not two person are the same, therefore they will not have the same reaction to the same event. As noticed in the story,…

Coming from the first world, economically blessed United States, the Price’s travel to the third world country of the Congo. Amidst all of the dangers; the dark and dreary jungle filled with snakes of animal and human nature, the Congo’s unsafe, unsecure quality of life, and the constant struggling fight for supremacy, the Price’s have come to revive the broken souls of the Congo. They have come to achieve redemption for abolishing the spirits of those who died in the Bataan Death March, by…

Aaron Hinsey Ms. Given Honors English 11 22 January 2018 Poisonwood Bible Response #2 What is the significance of the Kikongo word nommo and its attendant concepts of being and naming? How do the Price sisters’ Christian names and their Kikongo names (210, 225) reflect their personalities and behavior? Nommo is “the force that makes things live as what they are” (Kingsolver 209), or at least to what Adah describes. Nommo classifies everything alive by name, a rabbit is a rabbit, a man is a man,…

to our textbook Ethical-relativism holds that, “There is no universal moral truth – that each culture has its own set of rules” (p.122). In other words, what is acceptable in one culture could be not acceptable in another. Then, the novel The Poisonwood Bible, in which the Price family moved from the United States to Africa is more an ethnical-relativist approach. Certainly, Nathan Price (the father), was a missionary taking the God’s word to the Congo, The problem was he didn’t know that for…

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…