What would go through your head if your father told you that you and your family need to pack up everything you own because you were moving to an unknown area? In the novel The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, Nathan Price, a missionary, tells his family of six that they will be moving to the unknown congos so he can share the word of God with all the villagers. Leah would follow her father anywhere to please him even if it is not the right think to do. She is a believer in God and shows it through her life for her fathers approval. The love for her father dissapears when she enters the congos and sees the culture within the congos. Leah strays away from her father and he belief in God when she watches her fathers actions and the words he speaks to the other people. Through out the novel you will see Leah change …show more content…
“My father witnessed the progress of every new leaf and flat flower bud.[...] I helped him cinstruct a sturdy stick barricade around the periphery so the jungle animals and village goats would not come in and wreck tour tender vegatbles when they come.”(Kingsolver 64) Leah has the point to always please her father, to be her fathers star puplie but then again the father shows very little intrest to his daughter when she shows all of her intrest to him. Leah and the other girls are afraid to go against their father in any opinion also make him angry in any way. Even though Leah trys to brown nose to her father she is also distant to the idea of making him mad. For example on book one page 64 Leah talks about how she is “a tomboy” but that she also “never fails to be respectful of my fathers garden.” Being respectful is one think but when it comes to Leahs father, Nathan Price, she is constantly being “respectful” towards his every wish. Ruth May said the quote “I was like a green mamba snake. Poison. I could be right next to you and you wouldn’t ever know it.” but in some sense you could also compare Leah to