The Poisonwood Bible

Adah Price: the Embodiment of Congo “She says she spent thirty years waiting for the wisdom and maturity to dare write this book. Never has such patience been more rewarded”(Forster 3). Yes, Barbara Kingsolver has every right to thirty years of contemplation before attempting to create such a complex political novel as The Poisonwood Bible, and yes, never has such patience been more rewarded, for the novel has opened the eyes of citizens and politicians …

…necessity of progress as a result of imperialism. McMillan 6 Works Cited Aull, Felice. “Kingsolver, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible.” 17 May 2000: n.pag. On-line. Internet. 8 Oct. 2000. Available WWW: http://endeaver.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/kingsolver1686-des-.ht…. Forester, Margaret. “Way Out of the Congo: The Poisonwood Bible by: Barbara Kingsolver.” n.pag. On-line. Internet. 8 Oct. 2000. Available WWW: http://www.litreview.com/reviews/1999/02/FORSTERONKINGSOLVER.html. Kingsolver, Barbara. The Poisonwood Bible. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1998.