Sometimes the things we can’t change end up changing us. In “The Poisonwood Bible”, we are shown just how true this quote can be. In this novel, a missionary Nathan Price, his wife Orleanna and their four daughters, Rachel, Leah, Adah, and Ruth May, all travel to Kilanga to set out on a journey to preach the word of God to the Congolese people. As they begin to leave their home in Georgia they pack everything they believed they were going to need to survive. They did so not knowing what was ahead for them will change their lives. This book is narrated by all of the Price women one after the other. This family goes through things they had never imagined like huge human eating ants, droughts, floods, hunger, diseases, killer mamba snakes and