What Is The Last Chapter Of The Poisonwood Bible

In the book The Poisonwood Bible story telling is explained as something that is passed on from one person to the next. Stories can be told in many different ways, and there are always multiple sides. Within this book specifically the author, Kingsolver, is trying to tell the story of the view of an oppressed female in the 1960’s. The women are able to give a different outlook on life, compared to what a character like Nathan. Communication is an important factor in storytelling and is the center of all life. Without storytelling many important key factors like communication, as well as religion,, and many other things would not exist. This book portrays storytelling flawlessly, describing it as an important representation of life.

Even though the narrator for the first chapter is Orleanna, and the last chapter is Ruth May, Ruth may seems to be responding to the wishes of her mother. Orleanna tells Ruth May to be the eyes in the trees, and this is exactly what Ruth May ends up telling Orleanna she is doing. In the first chapter, Orleanna shows hints to the reader about guilt, and how to deal with it. The audience notices that Orleanna has guilt from something very personal, but it is unknown what it is from. Later on, the reader finds out that the guilt is about the death of her youngest daughter, Ruth May. Ruth may has gone to show that she will live on h=throughout the jungle and her family's hearts. The the last chapter small okapi carvings were purchased for Orleanna’s grandchildren as toys. The okapi is a mystical, exotic creature in the Price family. This mystical concept can also represent the innocence that was taken from the children at such a young

The Price family represents America and everything about it. They represent the U.S. going into the Congo, and thinking that they are better, and smarter than everyone there. The U.S. went into the Congo and began taking all the important materials that were being produced on the land. The U.S. believed that they were doing the right thing even though they had no right to do this to the native people. They believed that they were right in helping the native people and acting like they were the leaders of a country that was not even theirs. The price family did almost the same thing in a way. The Price family came into the Congo expecting to change the congolese people into better believers in God. Due to the color of the families skin, and them having money made them start to think that they are better than everyone in the Congo. No matter what happened in the Congo the Price family believed that they were making a huge impact, and doing good for the Congolese people. In reality, the Price family was making an extremely small impact in these people’s lives, and rather hurting their own. Religion is everything for the Price family. This is the concept for the religious allegory to the novel. Nathan Price believes that every single event in his life, good or bad, is controlled by God. God is seen as holding Nathan’s hand throughout the entire book. Nathan would not be considered Nathan without