The Poisonwood Bible: Summary

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As a reader, the effect of this directive puts me as an overseer to her and her family. It makes it seem like she wants me to watch something or the ruin she talks about. Also, with the talk of the “ruin” it gives off foreshadowing to either her family being ruined, the congo, or the missionaries. The “you” she talks about in the beginning is an animal called an okapi that she encounters at a stream, but the “you” can also be the forest she directed the reader to be. She alludes to near death of a family member, death from diseases, the riots and protests of the Congo people, and her family changing from when they first arrived. She again foreshadows with the death of her child “mother of children living and dead” but does not say which one died (Kingsolver 7). Her looking back on Africa as the past while her children are talking about it now keeps the reader hooked in. Orleanna Price foreshadows something every time she remembers Africa before the reader is taken back to Africa. The reader asks more questions about what is going on and what happened than they would if Orleanna talked when she was in Africa. Besides that, she is also heard and talked about throughout the daughters experiences in …show more content…
Orleanna reminds me of the south which is where our main characters are from. Nathan is a boring name, but during the nineteen-sixties it was probably a normal name for Baptists. Leah, Rachel, and Ruth May are very old names that people don’t really use anymore. Adah is the weirdest name out of her sisters because it doesn’t seem that many girls were named that during the fifties and sixties. Adah’s name is significant for it separates her from her family and makes her more special with a different name than most girls. The people from the Congo have names that are culturally appropriate and memorable, yet strange to the Price sisters. They use Mama or Tata before their actual
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