Poisonwood Bible And All The Pretty Horses: A Literary Analysis

The concept The Poisonwood Bible is trying to bring to recognition is that there are always multiple perspectives to any story. The usage of several narrators allows one to see the same story from different points of views that all differ. It also displays how storytelling is a reflection of a person’s experiences and lives, because one’s experiences shape their perspectives or biases. For example, Adah’s more analytical perspective allows her to analyze situations life presents to her in a deeper level such as her ideas on the circle of life and Africa. This perspective allows her to be successful in her career field as well. Contrary to this, Rachael’s cocky and shallow perspective does not allow her to analyze situations from a deep perspective. For example, she is always thinking short term, such as when she brags about how she had several husbands. Her attitude, does allow her to be successful in her business. It does nothing to better her character, though, causing her to be the most uneducated and naive of the three. The usage of multiple narrators could symbolize the fact that the situation in the Congo also has multiple perspectives and is a complicated web, as life is.

Ernest Hemingway was conceived in 1899 out of a rich, moderate Chicago suburb. The second of six kids, he demonstrated an early ability in composing that he sharpened through work on his secondary school's abstract magazine and understudy daily paper. After moving on from secondary school in 1917, Hemingway moved far from home and set out on an expert written work vocation, beginning as a correspondent for the Kansas City Star.

The title The Poisonwood Bible is very fitting. The poisonwood tree is described as “The tree that was plaguing us all to death” (29). Just as the painful, venomous and hazardous if mishandled poisonwood tree is, so is Nathan Price's theology. He mistranslates key words and therefore the biblical message doesn't make sense to the people to whom he preaches (73). He doesn’t take time to understand the people, he simply judges and criticizes their culture. Nathan publicly disgraces a woman during a service for her attire. He proceeds to proclaim, “Nakedness, and darkness of the soul!” (7). He causes more problems for the people rather than aiding them.

It has often been said that once you spend enough time with someone and create a strong bond with them, you end up becoming very close and considering them family. What has also been said is that we find friendships when we need it most. As important as family is in real life, it is often shown that in literature, authors use this concept to offer a clear understanding on how close an individual can get to someone within months. Barbara Kingsolver demonstrates the importance of family through Taylor in her novel The Bean Trees, as she creates strong relationships on her way through life.

As we still have yet to fathom what my brother and I will become, I learn to understand the extraordinary sacrifices you and Dad have made to make sure that both me and my brother will succeed in a new world. Over the summer as I read the Glass Castle ,I realized how important determination truly was. Although you have faced hardships such as the death of both your parents, Jeanette, the author of the memoir, had a father who disappeared and a mother who lacked decency to feed her kids. Even though your parents were efficacious unlike Jeanette’s, you two were both determined to take control of your future. With a strong sense of determination to get out of dilapidated West Virginia like you had to from Greece, Jeanette states that, “I was

Does marital status affect one’s happiness? Happiness can only be affected by things that one let’s affect it. Some of these things may be what one gets out of the marriage, what they would rather be doing that makes them happy or simply choosing against it because that is not what they want for themselves. Marriage can cause happiness if one is happy with their marriage or the things they are putting in or getting out of their marriage. If one doesn’t care about their marital status they will find other things to make them happy whether that is a new hobby or getting involved with a career that they would absolutely love. The three older sisters and the mother and father’s relationship in The Poisonwood Bible written by Barbara Kingsolver.

The Poisonwood Bible has had many themes surrounding the story, its characters, and the messages. Themes that come and go throughout the book are that things happen for a reason, everyone is equal, and don’t judge a book by its cover. Orleanna is the base of the story. She’s the wise and motherly figure, obviously, to some people; especially her daughters. She becomes depressed after one of her daughters died. Ruth May was killed by a snake and Orleanna feels guilty for her death. As a mother, seeing her daughter die obviously had its impact on Orleanna. Any mother would feel guilt or depression after such a traumatic experience, as parents expect themselves to die before their kids. No parent ever thinks that an event like that will happen

In the Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, the Price family is living in the ever changing country of the Congo, the author seeks to make a statement on the way that colonialism affects the people of the country being colonized.

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver has five different narrators: Orleanna, Leah, Rachel, Adah, and Ruth. The only Price family member that did not get a voice in the novel was Nathan Price. Kingsolver may not have let him have a voice because she wanted to let the readers interpret their own reasons as to why Nathan acts how he does and risk his and his family’s lives. Another reason could perhaps be that he is stubborn and refuses to listen to anyone else. She may have chosen not to include Nathan’s point of view in case it would take from meaning she was trying to portray with the women. His voice alone could have enriched or ruined the book.

In the book “All The Pretty Horses” by Cormac McCarthy The main character John Grady Cole spent a lot of time separated from his home and what was left of his family. Once his grandfather died John Grady made the decision to leave his ranch and head to Mexico to continue his life as a rancher. When John Grady goes to Mexico he goes through a life-changing journey in which he learns a lot about the world. When John Grady Cole leaves his home and ventures to Mexico he gains knowledge of the world, but he also leaves his past behind him and along the way looses the innocence he had before he left.

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver is a story of Orleanna Price, wife of Nathan Price and mother of 4 daughters. The Price family travels to the Belgian Congo on a mission trip to spread their faith of Southern Baptism to the Congolese. The people of the Congo have different customs and beliefs which is different from the Price’s beliefs.

Epictetus’s way of philosophy is one that is purely Stoic, imploring that the solution to human finitude is one where humans can live life without showing feeling or complaining about pain and hardships towards unsavory situations. Each of his rules in his handbook offers advice in which the subject simply “deals” with disappointment, or rather, doesn’t expect something out of the scopes of reason and logic, so that, figuratively, when occurrences don’t go their way, they aren’t disappointed. This is because to Epictetus, all external events in life are pre-determined by fate, so it’s already out of our hands from the beginning. With a calm dispassion, or indifference, we approach our fate and accept it. This is shown in his rules in The Handbook,

The Poisonwood Bible ultimately communicates that as humans live they acquire their own history, and therefore their own story. History is originally retold through the perspectives of people who experience it, therefore it is littered with, and consequently altered by, their own personal emotions and memories attached to the moments. Adah Price, arguably the most introspective narrator in the novel, sums up human life to be “what [they] stole from history, and how [they] live with it,” which further reiterates the concept that humans redefine history by telling their own stories and recollections of what is most true to them and how they are managing what they experience. The notion that humans “steal” something from history is clearly conveyed through Adah’s dialogue, which indicates that as humans adopt history as their own stories, and thereby change it, they are stealing some of the authenticity that accompanies history (Kingsolver 492).

In the “Poisonwood Bible”, by Barbara Kingsolver, there are particular elements of exile that drive Leah Price to finding her true self, each leading her further away from the previous exile status and closer to her true self. Such instances of exile are seen as a placeholder for the next instance in which she descends into her true self and departs from her “home”. For example, when she leaves America with her family, she knows little-to-nothing about what the Congo has-in-store for her. As she loses her connection with America, she begins to rely more on Nathan Price, her father, strengthening the bond that they already had, which only leads to the imminent exile that she must face next. Her father’s mischievous behavior creates numerous circumstances that test

In third grade I dreamed of being an athlete. Despite mildly severe scoliosis and very limited depth perception, I was going to have a Gatorade sponsorship in my adulthood. However, one fateful day in third grade, as the result of an unfortunate face plant in P.E. class resulting in the