In Barbara Kingsolver's novel “The Poisonwood Bible,” multiple members of the
Price family experience a moment of exile throughout the novel. Orleanna Price is one member of the family who experiences physical and mental, as well as emotional exiling due to the hardships she had to face. Orleanna proves that exile both alienates and enriches her life through the amount of hardships she and her family face by describing how through the bad experiences handed to her she is able to learn to leave and live for herself, while also describing how through the experiences her family was ultimately torn apart. In the beginning of the novel Orleanna describes her experience of the forced transition to the Congo from their life in America by stating “Maybe …show more content…
After moving to Africa Orleanna shows how Towards the end of the story the move eventually enriches her life by allowing her to experience what it’s like to have a life without Nathan and for her to also understand that she can handle herself without him. Orleanna also shows how the alienating factors contributed in her life by showing how her daughter’s death and the failure of her marriage ultimately allowed her to gain the courage she needed to be able to seek the freedom that her and her daughter’s needed.
This contributes to the work as a whole by allowing Orleanna to learn that she has to move on even through the hardships of life.
Jackson 4
It is noticed that the family is hardly together in the story. This allowed everyone to gain a small bit of independence, especially Orleanna. After Ruth May had died,
Orleanna had finally approached her enriching moment at this point of the book. She then realized that her entire marriage was based off of what Nathan wanted to do instead