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Literary Analysis Essay On The Poisonwood Bible

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Rachel Burrell
Hanson
English II
May 20, 2016

The Poisonwood Bible
Faith can be lost throughout time. In The Poisonwood Bible, this proves to be true especially in the case with Adah, Leah and their father, Nathan Price. Adah and Leah, two reliable narrators, both end the novel believing their father to be unprincipled, thus dramatically shaping the tone of the novel regarding Nathan Price. Adah starts the novel skeptical of her father and she observes his arrogance towards others, while Leah admires Nathan Price. Throughout the novel Leah Price’s perspective on Nathan Price changes, in the beginning of the book she “covet[s] the delicious weight of goodness”(37). As the novel goes on and Leah gets older her perspective of her father changes to “a wall of anger pushes [her] in a different direction, roaring that [she] must leave Father behind me” (435). When Adah brings up Nathan Price, she refers to him as “Our Father”(32), noting that the beginning letters are capitalized which makes the reader see Nathan Price as above himself. In Matthew 6:9 of the Bible, the beginning of the bible verse is “Our Father” referring to God. …show more content…

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