THE GREAT GATSBY

The Great Gatsby

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The Great Gatsby

The Poisonwood Bible (1998) by Barbara Kingsolver is a best seller about a missionary family, the prices, which in 1959 move from Georgia to the village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo, near the river Kwilu. (The nearest town, an incredibly long distance travel is Bulungu.) The price history, which parallels the tumultuous emergence of their host country in the post-colonial era, is narrated by five women from the Family: Orleanna the suffering wife of Baptist missionary Nathan Price, and their four daughters, Rachel, Leah, Adah and Ruth May.

Orleanna Price narrates the introductory chapter five of the seven sections of the novel. The story then alternates between the four daughters, with a slight preference for the voice of the most outspoken, Leah. The four girls increasingly mature as each adapts differently to African village life, to his father's misogyny, and political turmoil that exceeds the Congo in the 1960's. As we see the inhabitants of the Congolese people through the eyes growing daughters, our vision changes. At first, they appear as wild ridiculous. But as girls mature, the villagers become meat completely out humans involved in a complex and sophisticated culture. Nathan lack of response to this culture holds welcome your family, but he refuses to leave. It is only after a series of misfortunes that led to the death of one of the daughters, women leave the father of her madness. Survivors take different paths in their future, as described until the mid-1990. The novel ends at the time of the death of Mobutu Sese Seko.

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