Leah’s poisonwood bible In 1959 Nathan price, a hot-headed but passionate Baptist minister, forces his wife and four daughters to the Congo on a mission to save the uninformed Congolese people. In the novel Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, Leah Price who is one of the four daughters has her psychological and moral traits shaped on this journey by her cultural, physical, and geographical surroundings. Throughout the book Leah realized many things such as her father's true colors which leads her to eventually stray away from how she once looked up to him. At the beginning of the novel Leah saw her father as this wonderful man who worshiped god the way she hoped to one day. The Congo and the congolese people play a big factor on her thoughts and choices. As the …show more content…
Living in the Congo and the congolese people teach her how to be more of a woman and that she doesn’t have to try and find herself through her father because she is her own person. They also teach her is it not all about God but it is more about gaining freedom and justice for all. Leah Price is a fourteen year old girl who is very intelligent and idealistic, she was born a middle child along with her twin Adah who unlike Leah, was born cripple and mute. The family is moving from bethlehem, Georgia on a mission trip that their father drug them on, to the congo for a year to try to enlighten the souls of the Congo. At the beginning of the novel Leah worships her father that is shown in this quote, “not everyone can see it, but my father's heart is as large as his