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. ...
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...
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...
