Starting Over

In a battle between light and darkness, which would win? Where light is, darkness

cannot exist. In her novel The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver proves this point through

the eyes of three women who persevere through hardships. As the journals of Orleanna, Leah,

and Adah unfold, three separate meanings of "walk forward into the light" are found.

Kingsolver uses her excellent sense of diction to weave heavy-hearted words throughout

Orleanna's journals to express her sufferings following Ruth May's death. In her journals,

Orleanna states, "Maybe I'll even confess the truth, that I rode in with the horsemen and beheld

the apocalypse, but still I'll insist I was only a captive witness. What is the conqueror's wife if

not a conquest herself?" implying that although the guilt should fall to her husband, Nathan,

she too feels the pain because she is tightly knit to him. Her darkness is obviously a guilt-ridden

conscience.......

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