Religion, Family and Feminism in Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible

The Enchantment of Creating a Journey: The significance of structure in Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver is a fictional writer who enhances the richness of imagery, language, and alongside with feminist rights. Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible depicts the Price family on a religious mission in converting the Congolese into Christianity. That is, Reverend Price is extremely devoted in converting the Congolese to Christianity, where eventually his family eventually give up on treating him as a husband and a father to four divergent daughters. Reverend Price and Orleanna have four daughters: Ruth May Price, Leah Price, Adah Price, and Rachel Price. Through the journey that Kingsolver creates, the readers are able to

Kingsolver uses short sentences to add emphasis in her writings. In doing so, she limits the amount of distractions, because her sentences are short enriching the details in them. At the first page of Orleanna’s episode, her second paragraph already enthuses the level of surprises suspense toward her readers: “First, picture the forest...sucking life out of death” (5). For example, Orleanna begins personifying forest as “forest [eating] itself” (5), and using simile to add human characteristics to animals: “brindled bark like muscular animals overgrown” (5). Kingsolver, however, also contribute many powerful use of literary devices to create the setting, such as the use of metaphors. The constant reference to green mamba snake alludes to Adam and Eve, where Kingsolver disintegrate the purity of Ruth May. Through the ranges of the novel, Kingsolver specifically creates Leah with more to say, which means there are more paragraphs in her perspective. From the start of the novel, Kingsolver structures Adah’s sentences differently and unique from the other protagonist, because Kingsolver uses Adah’s condition to evolve in a much stronger diction. For example, one of her first paragraph begins with “SUNRISE TANTALIZE, evil eyes hypnotize: that is the morning, Congo pink...the shinny black-line clipped into pieces” (30). Although Adah’s powerful diction emphasizes Congo, Rachel’s malapropism constructs the limited knowledge she actually has for the real world, which also causes to mature slower: “They are Episopotamians” (167). In doing so, the use of short sentences create imagery, which Kingsolver inputs the tension and the diction while in each episode. With that being said, Kingsolver uses structure to carry out her literary techniques to unfoil the significance of Congo’s Independence, while demonstrating the effect of multiple narrations in the