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Response Journal For The Poisonwood Bible

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Diego Carbajal Miss Given World Literature 05 February 2018 Response Journal #3 Storytelling is an essential element in The Poisonwood Bible, it is specifically used to tell each side of one story. Using different points of views to get a various amount of opinions on an event that happened in the book. Kingsolver implements this in her book using the four girls and Orleanna. This gives the reader a vivid image of what is going on between every narrator telling their side of the story. Orleanna mentions, “To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story,” this quote is referring to change in an individual's life when they understand or collect the words of a story (385). Storytelling becomes important to every character of the story, for that character is increasing their development throughout the whole book. Another aspect of storytelling is how it is revolved with the past. How the characters and humans attempt to rewrite the past to our own visions. For example Orlenna always remembers what happened to Ruth May and using stories in the …show more content…

In the first chapter, Orlenna describes this tree and continues to tell the reader to be the eyes of the tree when in reality she was speaking to Ruth May the whole time. Later in the story we know that Ruth May wants to become a snake that hides in the trees. Orlenna in a way was telling her to become the snake, to fulfil her dreams. The ruin is the forest eating itself, meaning Orlenna still has not forgiven herself for what happened to her daughter. Orlenna no longer wants to remember nor be apart of the tragic event that partook in order to create the ruin. Finally the okapi represents Ruth May’s purity, and never loses her purity. This is similar to what happened with the okapi, in terms of both of them losing their

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