The Poisonwood Bible Review


In her novel The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbra Kingsolver describes how
the Price's travel from Bethlehem, Georgia to the village of Kilanga near
the Kwilu River in Congo during the summer of 1959. Nathan Price, the father and a
Baptist minister, drags his family deep into the heart of the Congo on a mission to
save the unlighted souls of Kilanga. The family arrives in the Congo on the evening
of a blood ceremony where they sacrifice animals and the villagers start a large fire, and begin pounding on drums and sinning in their native tongue
the villagers .In the Congo, the Price family faces the realization that everything from the plants they unsuccessfully try to grow to their scriptures which are not being accepted. The family struggles with how to grasp their new concept of life. Along with the struggle of the family, Nathan's arrogance and impatience keep him from ever properly learning the language. "Tata Jesus is Bangala,"......

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