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The Poisonwood Bible is the story of an American Southern Baptist family's move to the Congo under their overbearing Christian father's desire to spread his faith to a culture he does not understand and has no interest in learning about. The House Of The Dead Overkill Pc Game. Barbara Kingsolver's articulation of the nuances of experience, the profoundly different narrative voices she assumes like an experienced character actress, and the way she fluently plays with language, show Kingsolver's love and mastery of her craft.
The novel begins in 1960, and covers the period of independence and revolution in the Congo. To the father, American Christian ways are the correct ones even though the people he attempts to convert have long survived in an environment and culture for thousands of years which they have melded and adapted to as completely suited to their survival. The wife and four daughters he bullies into coming are merely items he exports, with no education about the life they will live or any understanding of how they will fare in a place so different from what they know.
They bring packages of cake mix and warm coats as they have little knowledge of where they are going. No matter what, though, the father, Mr. Price, believes in his 'white' superiority to the detriment of both the village people and his own family, and this arrogance leads in part to the death of one of his children. This brings the internal drama of the book to a head. All of the lines of the plot play into the event, making it seem almost inevitable in a sense.