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The poisonwood bible is about a family the Nathan price family and about his wife Orleanna and their four kids Ruth May, Ada, leach, and Rachel price . also the father is a priests and wants to spread the word oh god and takes his whole family to the Congo in Africa . each child in this book is very special and is feel of spirit like ruth may is a badass, amateur, and she is thought from the people how black people are cursed . Also she think everything she hears is true like for example her fri
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This book is wonderfully written, full of vivid descriptions, many different themes, and the all-around wonder that makes it an interesting book. Many of the themes, such as Female Perspective, Cultural Shock, Religion, and Literary Devices, help people understand the book better, as well as what is going on. They open a portal into our minds, allowing us to question "What if....?" or "How come....?". It also displays the workings of the human mind.
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The Poisonwood Bible was like no other book I have read before. An evangelical Baptist, Nathan Price, takes his family to the Belgian Congo in a mission to convert all Africans to Christianity. He thought this mission was going to be easy, but boy, did he not expect what was coming. The Africans were Animists, which means that they believed that all things in nature have spirits, and they also spoke a different language than him. Along with Nathan, Leah, Ruth May, Rachel and Adah his daughters w
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The novel is very informational. It contains several facts about the Congo and African culture. Nathan Price, Orleanna Price, Rachel, Leah, Adah, and Ruth May are the major characters. They are an American family that moves into the Kilanga village on a mission to spread Christianity. The story has several moments of culture shock and assimilation. Some Congolese people interact with the Price family, and they all learn about each other. The book can get a little confusing at times, so it requir
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The novel, "The Poisonwood Bible", was so amazing. It contains several facts about the Congo and African culture. The main characters included Nathan Price, Orleanna Price, Rachel Price, Leah Price, Adah Price, and Ruth May Price. The Price family are Americans that moves from Georgia to the Kilanga village on a mission to spread Christianity. The story has several examples of religion. Mainly because, Nathan is a baptist. This book teaches the reader how to look at things in different perspecti
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This book is a good book for research on female persprctive.I don't comprhend it well but I'm understanding it. I am doin a female perpectivr in english and it seems clear when your focusing on one topic.This book is very similar to the joy luck club by Amy Tan because it has a vairety on femalr perspective
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This book was a great book. Honestly, I thought that it was so boring and minute after minute I hoped for it to be over, but later on I started really enjoying the book. There are 5 female perspectives in the book and that helped me understand the situation in the story. So you see the Price family came to the jungles of Kilanga, Congo as a missionary. To bring the word of Christianity. The head of the family was Nathan Price while he and his wife Orleanna Price had 4 daughters.
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The Poisonwood Bible i think wasnt much a book my type . I Found it type confusing with so many Character and having them all jump around the book and sometimes getting confused with other character in the book .But you will see Females Perpectative threw out this book and other topics .
If it wasn't because i had to I would have NEVER!!! read this book. The details of the book made the book feel ling and boring. The novel is told by 5 female perspectives, four daughter and there mom. They move from the hometown in Georgia to a country in Africa call The Congo. Most of the girls hate it at first. Some of them don;t express their feelings as much as the others. But as they start adjusting to the Congo they get use to it. I seriously taught this book was going to be boring the min
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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver is a very long book. It is also very interesting. Is about a family that has been sent to Africa, to try to convert people into Christianity. This family discovers many challenges that they have to overcome. The price family has 4 children they are all girls, some of them get adapted to Africa some of them don’t… discover which are the ones by reading the book. I totally recommend this book to a higher level readers and fast readers because is very long
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Barbara Kingsolver is a fantastic author because this book is filled with so much similes and metaphors that you just get connected to the book like it was your brother. My classmates say this book is such a bore. I say that is book has it all. Love, violence and religious faith. An unstable family goes to Congo in Africa to spread faith. No one likes to be badgered with faith. If like to look at a book different then other people is what you like this book is for you. It doesn’t just tell one s
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The Posionwood Bible is a novel that takes place in the Congo. It revolves around the lives of the Price family. The novel was separated into different chapters based on who was speaking. Each chapter was alternated between Orleanna, Rachel, Adah, Leah, and Ruth May. I learned that I did not like this book very much. I found it very boring at times and rather bland. The only parts I did like were Rachel's and Ruth May's narration. Other than that I would recommend this book to those who like rea
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The Poisonwood Bible is one of the best books I have read so far. A missionary family- Nathan Price, Adah, Rachel, Leah, Ruth May and Orleana travels to Killanga, Africa. The family struggles to adapt to the new environment. The family was in danger when the father refuses to leave the place. The climax is intense and the book overall is very emotional. Struggle with religion, redemtion, adaptation, sexism are some of the themes in this book. I would recommend this book to everyone.
this book has lot of female perspectives. the way the book was written was great. at first i really didn't like the book but as i kept on reading the book i started getting interested. this book covers a lot of daily issues such as racism and more. this book is can easily be related to or made connection with. this book is also filled with literary devices.
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This book is a good book it helps understand diffrent perspectives. This book is very intresting. It shows diffrent cultures and explains some things about Congo,Africa. I recomend this book to anyone who likes complex books. I recomend this to people that like complex books because although it is good it has parts in which it gets comlicated.
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it--from garden seeds to Scripture is calamitously transformed on African soil.
This book is great and it really was one of those books that will help in the future.I loved how it showed cultural diffusion and assimilation.I feel that living in the USA wheres thiers alot of diversity people forget about culture shock and how diffrent the world is. I enjoyed this book and would recommend it to others.
This book was okay but I really didn't like it. It was about a family that moves to africa. It had alot of literary devices throughout. If it wasn't mandatory I probably wouldn't read it.
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I could not get into this book. Even if my life depended on on. It's a good story but as soon as I got to page 350 I had to stop.
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