'' As her husband continually preaches the good Lord's word, in the second book, creation, we begin to see the extreme contrast between Nathan's opinion of the Congo and the necessity on his part to be there. The idea of creation in Genesis begins to become more reflective of Nathan's efforts to create a mission than its biblical significance as the creation of mankind. This struggle between the reality of the Congo, that there is no place for the Prices and their Western ideas, and Nathan's constant desires to change the Congo and make his mission successful creates an internal frustration within Nathan leading to much of his anger and frustration with the Congolese people.
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. Although these evils are capitalized upon after Nathan's death this book is the first instance where it is directly addressed. "And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up- (Revelation 13:1). The beast, a common theme in literature, is the beast within us. Adah begins to recognize the evils in people around her and most specifically in her father For Adah, adaptation comes in the form of unforgiving self-discovery, the realization that ''even the crooked girl believed her own life was precious.'' Adah chose to remain mute within the earlier years of her life, therefore creating her own beliefs from the beginning, she was never forced to agree with her father; for they didn't believe she possessed the verbal abilities to do so. However, she was very intelligent and religious, as she refers to the bible within many of her entries in The Poisonwood Bible. Adah chose to make a dedicated commitment to Christ within the earlier stages of her life, a commitment that stayed with her eternally. Nathan Price narrates nothing, and yet his character is very clearly defined and developed through the females in his family.
