Sacrifice In The Poisonwood Bible

How can people tell what we value based on what we sacrifice? In the novel, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver we are able to see how the values of a character can be illuminated through what they sacrifice. During the story, Nathan price takes his family across the world from Georgia to the Congo of Africa in this sacrifice and much more we see that his values are embellished by the amount he sacrifices to be able to achieve his goal.

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver uses two extremely contrasting places in the Congo and the United States in order to represent contrasting ideas. The United States represents civility and home for the Price family, while Congo in contrast represents a much more savage, sinister, and less developed country throughout the novel. The two places are major contrasts of each and represent entirely different ideas.

Everyday we all make sacrifices for people we love and in rare cases those we do not. The book Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver illuminates one family and the sacrifice they make to journey from their comfortable home in Georgia to the untamed jungle of Africa’s Congo to preach as Baptist missionaries. The story takes place in the 1960s during the withdrawal of Belgian influence in the Congo. One of the family members Orleanna Price the wife and mother of the family sacrifices everything she has to make this journey that her husband so willfully accepted. Through her sacrifice it shows us what she values. This is shown through the sacrifice of her agency, way of life and her happiness.

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Leah Price from “The Poisonwood Bible,” is a teenager in 1950, and Tata Ndu is an old leader of Kilanga, a small village in the Congo. Leah’s family is on a Baptist mission to the Congo and Leah’s family resides in Tata Ndu’s village. Everything the Price family preaches is against the values of the people of KIlanga, namely Tata Ndu. Leah has progressive opinions about women, and Tata Ndu is set in his ways of demeaning women. Leah believes that women should have responsibility outside the home, but Tata Ndu says that women belong in the home. Leah believes that women should choose their husbands, but Tata Ndu is hard in believing that women are property to be bought by men. The conflicting opinions between Tata Ndu and Leah can be blamed

Many writers use setting to establish the theme of a literary work. In Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, the setting establishes three overall themes of the work as the contrasting regions of the Congo and the United States, arrogant dominance, and injustice. The Poisonwood Bible gives to readers all the gruesome details of the most recent history of the Congo, the truth about living through it, and the vast differences between two lifestyles: that of those who sat contently in their pleasant, undemanding lives during the late 20th century, and that of those who weren’t so privileged, but were also content in their own ways.

Barbara Kingsolver 's novel The Poisonwood Bible captures a white southern families struggles through cultural collision and avid yet destructive faith. Kingsolver utilizes personal narratives to highlight the effect of western presence in Africa, not only pertaining to the natives but to the intrusive westerners themselves. The Price women display an array of different reactions to their quest in the Congo— each character contributes a different perspective which furthers the plot. Leah Price, one half of the highly intelligent twin dynamic, the only difference between the two is that, Leah is able bodied. Leah undergoes significant changes throughout their sojourn in Kilanga, in which she is forced to reevaluate the importance of

The setting of The Poisonwood Bible, takes place deep in the 1960’s Belgian Congo jungle. In which, at the time was a huge culture gap between the Price family and the Belgian Congo natives. The Price, a good Christian American family that is called to do God’s work as missionaries. But the Belgian Congo Natives, an isolated tribe that practiced barbaric traditions, such as the Bataan Death March, caused the culture gap between the two lives. However, the contact between the two cultures was not the first, typically the Western civilizations went to the Congo in search for diamonds, in which caused conflicts.

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The majority of low income citizen does not own a house, and the narrator falls into that category. Her family constantly has to move around due to the bad condition of the houses they moved in. She also states that each time they move, “there’d be one more of us” (147), explains that the size of the household grew each them they move. The rent of their previous apartment should be cheap enough since the landlord did not bother to fix it and said “the house was too old” (147). However, they picked another old house that is falling apart, but considered it as an improvement since at least they own a house now.

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Real estate offers are made to families who’ve lost everything. Plots are offered half their real market value (Letelier, 2010).

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They now have to find a good place to live, they are not only thinking about their selves but the wellbeing of their families as well. In the book “The Suburb Reader” by Becky Nicolaides and Andrew Wiese, chapter 7 entitle: The Other Suburbanites the authors explain, “Since suburbs first emerged in North America, working people have claimed a place within them. From earliest presence of artisans and outcasts in the suburbs of colonial walking cities to a diversity of laborers in twentieth-century suburbia, the working class has occupied an important— if not always recognized— place in America suburban history. For working people, decisions about where to live hinged on multiple factors: cost of living, location of kin and friends, proximity to transportation, availability of affordable housing, ideals about a desirable living environment, and finally, the location of jobs. The last factor had greater influence among these suburbanites than the well-to-do, since most laborers could not always afford the expense of a regular commute.” As explained on this chapter the suburbs where the place to be. Not only because suburbs were close to a city but because the perks of living in one were many. The suburbs were the beginning of a new era including transportation, houses, job opportunities, either to work or create a business, a person could do anything in a suburb and be prosper. This is the