Showing posts with label poisonwood bible revelation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poisonwood bible revelation. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Poisonwood Bible The Revelation

The Revelation is the second part of the book The Poisonwood Bible. Many things happen in this section. My job, being the new critic, I found a couple of sections where they seem to hold a sort of significance to the story. Or some may be that I found them to be just interesting. The first event that sort of mattered was when Ruth May broke her arm. After climbing in the tree and spying on the Jimmy Crow boys, she falls and breaks it. She ends up having to have to fly to a hospital where a doctor starts to diss the Lord right to the father's face. This is the start of where people tell the father about how there are other ministers in the town and that the people don't want Christianity as their religion. They already have a religion and God to rely on. The second event is when Adah supposedly gets eaten by a lion and comes back to life. She is walking back from the stream alone, close to night. A lion follows her but she returns home safely. The chief of the town proudly reports to father that a lion had eaten and killed Adah. But then Adah walks out to where everyone can see her. This causes a boost of the number of people who attend service because they thinks that the Lord had saved her from the lion. And it goes on with a story from the bible about how she had been saved. This makes the father happier. Good thing Adah didn't die, I like her. The third thing was when Anatole sent a boy to live with them and to help them with chores in return of food and shelter, among other small arrangements. The boy's name is Nelson. This just adds a new character to the story. Then the Underdowns go to visit them. Or, more like they go to tell them that the Congolese are going to be an independent nation and they should leave. But father decides not to leave and so everyone is sad.
That's about all I got.