Nathan In The Poisonwood Bible

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In the novel, The Poisonwood Bible, the author, Barbara Kingsolver, conveys that not everyone tries to colonize for the right reasons. Nathan is one of these people because he only wants to “help” the people of the Congo for the guilt he feels about something else. Just as the Duke of Norway tries to colonize them for profit and no one really stopped him from doing so. Like, the girls are unable to persuade Nathan to stay home and not go to the Congo. In the beginning, Nathan was a good idea to take his family to Africa to “help” the people of the Congo adopt the ways of Christianity. The girls don’t want to go, but Orleanna and Nathan make them go. The Duke did the same when he realized that no one was going to say he couldn’t go to Africa

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