Poisonwood Bible Summer Reading Assignment - 2010 Words

Fax Victor AP English Literature and Composition Ms. Elder The Poisonwood Bible Summer Reading Assignment August 12, 2014 The Poisonwood Bible 1. Barbara Kingsolver explores a quest in her novel â€Å"The Poisonwood Bible†. The criteria of a quest consist of a quester, a destination, a purpose, challenges, and reasons for the quest. In this instance the quester is Orlenna Price whom demonstrate guilt consistently. Orlenna is going there to accompany her husband, who is seeking to convert others. She feels guilty due to the death of her daughter and now that guilt remains as one of the challenges she faces. This is mostly transparent when she says â€Å"How do we aim to live with it?† (Kingsolver 9). Her guilt revolves around the destination to the Congo. Due to the Congo her one of her children survives. Now she has to deal with that challenge which is her guilt. The elements of a quest are very embedded in â€Å"The Poisonwood Bible†. 2. A gathering around a meal often represents an act of communion. People come together to share thought, ideas, and conflicts. In â€Å"The Poisonwood Bible†, a particular scene occurs when there is a dinner at the church. The feeling around the dinner table was a sense of belonging and agreement, which matches up well with â€Å"How to Read Literature Like a Professor† view of a meal. As the meal proceeds, Kingsolver notes â€Å"He is Congolese all right, But he has different kind of eyes that slant a little bit like a Siamese† (Kingsolver 125). ThisShow MoreRelatedSummary Of The Poisonwood Bible 1318 Words   |  6 PagesLiterature and Composition Summer Reading Assignment The Poisonwood Bible Analyzed by: Shraddha Patel contents: 6 essays  â€Å" Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened First, picture the forest. I want you to be its conscience, the eyes in the trees.† The effect of the above directive on the reader is that it takes us into the world that is so disparate from anything that we, the reader, could have ever imagined. It propels the reader to continue reading and disclose the mystery of