Cultural Superiority in The Poisonwood Bible The Poisonwood Bible is a story of the political turmoil taking place in Congo in the 1960's and into the future. ... Many parallels can be drawn from The Poisonwood Bible and to real life occurrences of the past. ... Perhaps one of the most blatant similarities in content is between The Poisonwood Bible and Cry, The Beloved Country. ... The basis in which The Poisonwood Bible takes place is very similar. ... The Poisonwood Bible makes an issue out of the idea of cultural dominance through its main characters. ...

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I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible... " - -Adah P.638, The Poisonwood Bible Why is there no narrative of Nathan Price? Quite simply, Nathan Price was the real author of the Poisonwood Bible, and exactly as Adah describes him he did not believe that he could speak anything but utter truth. ... -Adah P.491, The Poisonwood Bible The reason for the writing of this book is for a release. ...

• Word Count: 808
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The Poisionwood Bible and Night Comparison/Contrast Essay The two books, Night and The Poisonwood Bible, carry the same general theme: change. ... Night and The Poisonwood Bible are similar based on their illustrations of change and the effects of the change, and differ in how the change motivates them. ... Compared to Night, where the reader sees the changes take place physically, The Poisonwood Bible portrays change mentally. ... The Poisonwood Bible exemplifies a transformation as four girls become three women. ...

• Word Count: 803
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• Grade Level: High School

The Poisonwood Bible, a novel by Barbara Kingsolver explores both the beauty and hardship of the Belgian Congo through the use of "books" which reflect the development of the bible. ... Throughout The Poisonwood Bible Kingsolver uses the format of the bible to explore the importance and impact of faith, and contrast it to the religions which the women discover at the end, based on their own self awareness. ... The second book of the bible, Revelation, is paralleled in the Poisonwood bible to the developing awareness on the part of Adah to the evils around her. ... However, she was very intel...

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Barbara Kingsolver is the author of many well-written pieces of literature including The Poisonwood Bible. ... Throughout The Poisonwood Bible Kingsolver explores the importance and impact of faith, and a religion based on your own private beliefs. ... This quote is very true, as her father is the evangelical missionary leader who parades his religion around, as he craves for the reputation of being a "good person," because he preaches the bible. ... At five years of age, she doesn't fully understand the bible, or the messages conveyed within it, but God is clearly present in her free-...

• Word Count: 1936
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In Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, the interaction and mixing of the somewhat "alien" cultures results in positive and negative effects upon the characters and the outcome of the novel. ... This I believe was an adequate explanation of the interaction of cultures in the Poisonwood Bible. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Barbara Kingsolver develops Leah by following her from the naive teenager she was to the mother of four, married to an African man and still living in Africa. At first, like the rest of the Price family, Leah was hesitant to associate with the Congolese. By the end of the novel, she was assimilate...

• Word Count: 596
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Barbara Kingsolver's writing in The Poisonwood Bible is more than mere historical fiction. It is true that Poisonwood is set in a past time, but the work's themes of difference in society, adaptation and change, and levels of apathy transcend chronological boundaries; making the novel a true piece of literature. ...

• Word Count: 1684
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

(Kingsolver 9) This quote appears in Orleanna's opening narrative and immediately introduces us to the dominant them in The Poisonwood Bible: the attempt to grapple with guilt. ... Readers should not use today's standards to judge The Poisonwood Bible's Orleanna. ... (The Poisonwood Bible Discussion 2)...

• Word Count: 556
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Barbara Kingsolver is the author of many well-written pieces of literature including The Poisonwood Bible. ... In A Handmaids Tale, similarly to The Poisonwood Bible religion is used as a tool to further control the people of Gilead. ... Orleanna Price is the wife of Nathan price in the novel The Poisonwood Bible. ... In closing, A Handmaids Tale a The Poisonwood Bible are novels constructed with undeniable similarities through issues concerning religion and women's rights. ...

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Instead of Nathan being a responsible father and caring for his sick family, he is off reciting verses of the Bible in the woods. ... The significance that the the character Nathan Price has in "The Poisonwood Bible," as a whole includes the recurring theme of western civilization in African colonies and how the United States and other European nations feel the need to intervene in foreign affairs because of their so called superiority. ...

• Word Count: 1203
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

1. Choose a passage that contains striking imagery. Analyze the passage and explain the effect on the work as a whole. "I reached out and clung for life with my good left hand like a claw, grasping at moving legs to raise myself from the dirt. Desperate to save myself in a river of people saving th...

• Word Count: 1121
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The concept of change in this sense is portrayed through the prescribed text Feliks Skrzynecki, Migrant hostel, and 10 Mary St composed by Peter Skrzynecki, the stimulus booklet Text 1 "The Door" by Miroslav Holub, also the song "Cats in the Cradle" by Harry Chaplin and the novel The Poisonwood bible composed by Barbra Kingsolver. ... My Final text The Poisonwood Bible is a novel full of changing perspectives of migrant experiences and once again the failure of child- parent relationships. ...

• Word Count: 1417
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For centuries there has been a distinct rift between the white man and the black man. The white man ostracizes and looks down on the black man, whom he views as beneath him. The blacks are not completely uncivilized, they are just perceived as savage to the white man. When the white man enters into ...

• Word Count: 2335
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School