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The Poisonwood Bible By Barbara Kingsolver

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Giving up everything is what The Poisonwood Bible is all about. Written by Barbara Kingsolver, a family of five moves to the Congo for missionary purposes. As the evangelical father makes the trip a living nightmare for the family, they grow into the ways of the Congo. Sacrificing basically their whole lives for their fathers religious purposes, the family breaks apart, all going their own ways. Kingsolver makes sure that every character gets a chance to tell their story as the live in the Congo. Sacrifice is the surrendering of a possession to offer a God. In the beginning of the book, the mother Orleanna Price, tells her story of the guilt that she is feeling from losing her child. She explains everything she has sacrificed to make her husband’s …show more content…

Morrow4 After Nathan, Orleanna decides that she will never love again, as she says to anyone who asks, “Nathan Price was all the marriage I need(531).’’ She gave up so much of life to Nathan that she has nothing left to give anyone else. Choosing to leave Nathan and her love life behind in the Congo shows how much respect she actually has for herself and her children. It showed she had to strength to put her children before her own love life. Kingsolver made Nathan leave her husband to show how extreme Nathan Price went into converting the Congolese people into civilized, Christian citizens. One last and most important thing that Orleanna has given up in the Congo, is her sanity. Orleanna Price will never be the same person after leaving the Congo with one child, losing one to death, and leaving the other two behind. Along with basically losing all but one child, she also loses her husband to the man above. Anyone would be different after all of that. Although anyone would probably go crazy after all of that, Orleanna stayed calm and kept to herself. It could be because she has nothing to say but it would most like be because of religion. She

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