Barbara Kingsolver is the author of many well-written pieces of literature including The Poisonwood Bible. This novel explores the beauty and hardships that exist in the ... marriage. As she describes them, the days when there was still room for laughter in her husband's evangelical calling, before her pregnancies embarrassed him, before he returned from World War II a different man, a man who planned ''to save more souls than had perished on the road from Bataan.'' Her husband, Nathan Price, had escaped those miseries simply ... her observations of her family with a shrewd poetic intelligen...

• Word Count: 1936
• Approx Pages: 8

The Poisonwood Bible, a novel by Barbara Kingsolver explores both the beauty and hardship of the Belgian Congo through the use of "books" which reflect the development of the bible. Told by the ... she finally comes to the realization that her father is simply "an ugly man." She sees that her father's ''blue eyes with their left-sided squint, weakened by the war, had a vacant look. His large reddish ears repelled me. My father was a simple, ugly man.'' Within her earlier years she practiced her religion in many of her ... records her observations of her family with a shrewd poetic intelligen...

• Word Count: 2281
• Approx Pages: 9

Barbara Kingsolver's writing in The Poisonwood Bible is more than mere historical fiction. It is true that Poisonwood is set in a past time, but the work's themes of ... and even physical violence. The British Admiral who refused to kowtow to the Chinese Emperor comes to mind as one of these cultural misunderstandings gone awry; eventually leading to war. Despite the many differences, there seem to be several general aspects of society shared by nearly all, chief among them being religion. The Price family, especially Nathan, ... and is oblivious to the needs of others. By the time the Pri...

• Word Count: 1684
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School