This is kind of like a follow-up to my previous post.
My favorite character so far in The Poisonwood Bible is Adah. I'm sure there are others who agree with me, or not. Adah is the twin who is brain dead in half of her brain. The way she talks and how she says and describes life is just so...original. It's seems real. She seems like she's the most rebellious out of the four children. Sometimes we find her dissing God in a subtle way. It seems like she thinks that God doesn't think as highly of her as her other sisters and He doesn't love her as much because he made her half brain dead. Because she can't live up to every one's expectations, because of how they see her as someone who can't talk, she lives in her own life and finds ways to please herself. She puts on the expression of not caring what people think, but she actually does. She doesn't want to be a nobody. Explaining things that people don't see and the bad things that make them are ways to get around feeling that they are better than her. It makes her feel better about herself when putting them down. The things that she focuses on could also be a way for her to lose herself while being trapped in her life. She likes to see things backwards, like when she reads or makes up her own hymns. Perhaps this is a way for her to feel better than the others or a way for her to express how she wish things were, the opposite. She doesn't want to be half brain dead. She doesn't want to be the outcast. Maybe that's why she likes Congo more than the others, because its closer than she's been to herself than before. There's still much more to learn about and by her.
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Showing posts with label Poisonwood genesis. Show all posts
Monday, March 5, 2007
Friday, March 2, 2007
Poisonwood Bible Genesis-1
This book is called The Poisonwood Bible. It is about a family who goes to Congo to preach to the people there. We are soon to have a lit circle meeting about the first part of the book called Genesis. I chose the job of Psychological Critic. In this job I will analyze why the characters did what they did and see what their thoughts were behind their actions. There are many things I can analyze in this short section of the book. First of all, the motives that are behind the characters' actions will always be connected to who they are and what they believe. Their personality and what surrounds them will have a connection.
The Price family move to Congo because the father is a preacher and wants to convert the Congolese into Christians. I don't really know what I have to do. There are just so many things that I can talk about and brainstorm about the motive for it. All of the characters have different personalities, thus different reasons for their actions. Leah is one of the twins. She seems as though she is one of the more main characters. She tries to tell things the way they actually are, because, I don't know. She's just a regular person/child. She is very into the Christian things along with her father. There is also Ruth May. She is the youngest child who tries to be all that she can for her father. To be the perfect child under God. She tells things like how she sees them, not how they really are. She sees things and turns them into her own thoughts of them. Like a typical child, she sometimes pays attention to the less important things. Rachel is the oldest child. She's basically a prissy teenager who wants everything her way and needs it or else she'll have some sort of drama. Things revolve around her. She sees things only her way and thinks that everything around her has to be her way or else its bad/wrong. She only brings attention to things that have to do something with her. Adah is the other twin. She's supposedly brain dead. Everyone thinks that she's basically useless but she proves otherwise. She has her own world and life to live. No one really pays attention to her because she can't talk and has a limp, and that's why she's so lyrical and descriptive of everything she sees around her. She's got the time and space to notice things that others wouldn't usually see. She knows that her family thinks she's retarded or slow but she doesn't really care. It's her life and she lives it how she likes. The mother, I've still got to figure out. I don't know about her. The father basically wants to shout God's word and save the Congolese people from themselves. And he's doing everything in his power to do just that, although its not leading to anywhere.
I'll find specific things to analyze in the next blog.
The Price family move to Congo because the father is a preacher and wants to convert the Congolese into Christians. I don't really know what I have to do. There are just so many things that I can talk about and brainstorm about the motive for it. All of the characters have different personalities, thus different reasons for their actions. Leah is one of the twins. She seems as though she is one of the more main characters. She tries to tell things the way they actually are, because, I don't know. She's just a regular person/child. She is very into the Christian things along with her father. There is also Ruth May. She is the youngest child who tries to be all that she can for her father. To be the perfect child under God. She tells things like how she sees them, not how they really are. She sees things and turns them into her own thoughts of them. Like a typical child, she sometimes pays attention to the less important things. Rachel is the oldest child. She's basically a prissy teenager who wants everything her way and needs it or else she'll have some sort of drama. Things revolve around her. She sees things only her way and thinks that everything around her has to be her way or else its bad/wrong. She only brings attention to things that have to do something with her. Adah is the other twin. She's supposedly brain dead. Everyone thinks that she's basically useless but she proves otherwise. She has her own world and life to live. No one really pays attention to her because she can't talk and has a limp, and that's why she's so lyrical and descriptive of everything she sees around her. She's got the time and space to notice things that others wouldn't usually see. She knows that her family thinks she's retarded or slow but she doesn't really care. It's her life and she lives it how she likes. The mother, I've still got to figure out. I don't know about her. The father basically wants to shout God's word and save the Congolese people from themselves. And he's doing everything in his power to do just that, although its not leading to anywhere.
I'll find specific things to analyze in the next blog.
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