...This form of justification was used to defend slave owners (Ephesians 6:5), the subjugation of women (Colossians 3:18), as well as child abuse (Proverbs 13:24). However, in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible, Nathan Price endeavors to save the lost souls of the Belgian Congo, all rationalized by his interpretation of the Bible and his understanding of a works-based God. This fictional epic, told through the perspective of Nathan’s wife and four daughters, illustrates the ignorance of Western colonization upon under-developed countries, specifically that which was justified with misconstrued Biblical text and “superior” ways of...
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...“The Congolese sense of balance is spectacular” and that, too, becomes true for the five female narrators in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver 107). The intricate and diverse nature of the women’s relativity creates a novel that consists of a fickle balancing act. The five narrators are similar to the year rings on trees as they experience daily life, but then grow from the previous narrator’s perspective, or in the case of trees, the previous years. A sturdy thematic structure is created by the narrators, Ruth May, Leah, Rachel, Adah, and Orleanna Price, that supports a complex storyline made of different observations of the Congo. In The Poisonwood Bible, the quintfecta of narrators, a perfect group of five, gives structure...
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