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The Poisonwood Bible

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The Poisonwood Bible

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    1. The Poisonwood Bible Pages 5-29 Geschke/English IV The Poisonwood Bible, 5-29

    2. Geschke/English IV The Poisonwood Bible, 5-29

    3. Reverend Nathan Price Father Religious Southern Baptist Minister Intimidating Geschke/English IV The Poisonwood Bible, 5-29

    4. Orleanna Price Mother Tons of foreshadowing Geschke/English IV The Poisonwood Bible, 5-29

    5. Foreshadowing “Seen from above this way they are pale, doomed blossoms, bound to appeal to your sympathies. Be careful. Later on you’ll have to decide what sympathy they deserve. The mother especially—watch how she leads them on, pale-eyed, deliberate.” (5) “This place is as familiar to her now as a living room in the house of a life she never bargained for.” (6) Geschke/English IV The Poisonwood Bible, 5-29

    6. Foreshadowing “…twin birds helpless to fly out of there, away from the disaster she knows is coming. She could lose everything: herself, or worse, her children. Worst of all: you, her only secret. Her favorite. How could a mother live with herself to blame?” (6) “Orleanna Price, Southern Baptist by marriage, mother of children living and dead.” (7) Geschke/English IV The Poisonwood Bible, 5-29

    7. Foreshadowing “I trod on Africa without a thought, straight from our family’s divinely inspired beginning to our terrible end.” (9) Geschke/English IV The Poisonwood Bible, 5-29

    8. Okapi Orleanna is the only one to see it Geschke/English IV The Poisonwood Bible, 5-29

    9. Rachel Price Daughter 15 years old “Rachel never does grasp scripture all that well” (15) Rebel? Geschke/English IV The Poisonwood Bible, 5-29

    10. Leah Price Daughter Adah’s twin Geschke/English IV The Poisonwood Bible, 5-29

    11. Adah Price Daughter Leah’s twin “Adah never talks to anyone” (16) Geschke/English IV The Poisonwood Bible, 5-29

    12. Adah Price “Leah and Adah are in between and they’re twins, so maybe they are one person, but I think two, because Leah runs everywhere and climbs trees, but Adah can’t, she is bad on one whole side and doesn’t talk because she is brain-damaged and also hates us all. She reads books upside down.” (21) Geschke/English IV The Poisonwood Bible, 5-29

    13. Ruth May Price Daughter 5 years old Geschke/English IV The Poisonwood Bible, 5-29

    14. Settings America Sanderling Island, Georgia Bethlehem, Georgia Biblical allusion Bethlehem is also where Jesus was born Geschke/English IV The Poisonwood Bible, 5-29

    15. Settings Africa Kilanga, 1959 The Congo Geschke/English IV The Poisonwood Bible, 5-29

    16. Control “We are supposed to be calling the shots here, but it doesn’t look to me like we’re in charge of a thing, not even our own selves.” (22) Geschke/English IV The Poisonwood Bible, 5-29

    17. Culture Shock The people in Africa hold a feast for the Price family Roast a goat Women are naked Reverend Price condemns the nakedness Geschke/English IV The Poisonwood Bible, 5-29

    18. Genesis The beginning First book of the Bible Geschke/English IV The Poisonwood Bible, 5-29

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