Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible follows the Price family after their decision to go to the Congo as missionaries.
Living in Kilanga exposed Leah to a new way of thinking and a new way of living.
Villagers worked together, helping each other survive on a daily basis.
For this transformation, she had to eliminate her old way of thinking, so she could be open to new ways.
Before its independence, Zaire was known as the Congo.
The head of the family, Nathan Price, practices a form of colonialism over his family.
He controls the women and tries to determine every aspect of their being.
Many missionaries took it upon themselves to educate the Congolese citizens about God and about the ways of the West.
The flow of missionaries into the Congo slowed as political unrest began to unfold.
When Nathan dies, she is the only one of her sisters who feels anything other than satisfaction.
It takes Ruth May dying to begin opening Leah’s eyes so she sees what kind of man her father really is.
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