Home In Poisonwood Bible By Barbara Kingsolver

Home is a sacred place where one feels comfortable in. As Sonsyrea Tate states, “You can leave home all you want, but home will never leave you,” it suggests that home may be conceived as of a dwelling, a place, or a state of comfort. There are many memories in a home and when one leaves home, there are many memories that are carried with him or her. In Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, a family moves to Congo, South America for the sake of the father’s occupation, a minister. To adapt to this new place with different rules, the females of the family have to sacrifice. One of the character who leaves home yet finds home remains significant is Rachel because she doesn't Congo, where she isn't as be beautifully surrounded by white people

When her mother was going back to America, ironically Rachel chooses to stay in South America. Pretending to marry Mr.Axelroot, she finds her new safe haven to be Johannesburg. Everything luxurious that she desires is there in front of her: “nice green lawns and swimming pools and gobs of pretty flowers growing behind their lovely high walls with electric gates. Cars, even! Telephones! White people just everywhere you looked (404). She hopes she can get the promise Axelroot and her made about luxurious life. Rachel does not change at all. She still loves the fancy life and including her “white people!” She feels more comfortable with them. She exclaims with excitement because having white people in South Africa is the closes perspective of America. However, she says, " I guess you might say my hope never got off the ground" (406). It reveals that she's still waiting on Axelroot to complete her dreams, but he never came back. Listing all the luxurious and then say “white people” shows the racism because she’s fascinated to see white people again and that only white people (including her) have these high standards. It then connects to Book 1 when she says “think brown claw” (23) when she holds a stranger’s hand instead of her mother's, and it also connects to when Leah and Rachel are arguing over race in Rachel's hotel as well as Rachel not having trust in her African staffs. It reveals that Rachel is comparing Africans as animals, and she doesn’t want to be surrounded by