Analysis on Poisonwood Bible

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Analysis of the Poisonwood Bible
Introduction
All through the history, writing has affianced the specialty of narrating using a mystical, yet great trip in which protagonist(s) seek after with a specific end goal to accomplish self-realization. This demonstration of self-realization appends so much meaning and flavor to the bit of writing that it fills in as a focal spine, which the content cannot survive when not included. In the novel Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver recounts the tale of Nathan Price and a few different characters like Leah, Ruth and Adah who each undergo a different voyage to either fight or surrender to their enemies: nature, religion and cultural vanity.
The cultural arrogance of western societies has majorly affected the Poisonwood Bible and has given the whole novel a remarkable significance. Kingsolver particularly investigates the holding strategies of the Europeans utilized against the defenseless Africans, for example, the racial abuse of blacks in the South, a man-centric motivation that besets females, and isolation of the individuals who have mental disorder or bodily disabilities as outsiders. Upon the Price Family’s turn to arrange a yearlong preaching in Africa, Nathan Price, the minister, typifies the preeminent ethnocentric state of mind of his old nation, America. Readers can certainly relate Nathan Price’s trip to Africa as an influential and physical adventure. This can be derived from the statement, “It’s hard to imagine a mortal man more unwilling to change his course than Nathan Price” (Jacobson, 108).

The essential explanation behind unflinching Nathan’s voyage is to set up a Christian teacher keeping in mind the end goal to change over the African innate people who lived in Kilanga. Eventually, Nathan does not understand the mistake of his ways and finally, will even verifiably wind up in charge of Methuselah’s inopportune passing.
Another case in the western world pomposity can be appeared through Eeben Axelroot’s excursion to discover riches and extravagance. Despite the fact that Axelroot is a local of North America, his pursuit for precious stones and his steady greed drove him to move to Africa in turn to discover gems (Jacobson, 119). Moreover, his ravenousness comes from the pomposity and disrespectfulness of Africa. He abuses and uses inborn men and women for his own advantage. Nathan Price and Eeben Axelroot are the two cases of characters in the Poisonwood Bible who capitulate to their self-importance and inability to change their point of view of different races to the point that a disaster happens.
Work cited
Jacobson, Kristin J. “The Neodomestic American Novel: The Politics of Home in Barbara Kingsolver’s” The Poisonwood Bible”.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 24.1 (2005): 105-127.