...five Price women enter the Congo with certain things: a stainless-steel thimble, materialistic tendencies, Betty Crocker cake mixes, white privilege, ivory hand mirrors, and stereotypical American ignorance, to name a few. However, the things they leave with are significantly different. They took away a sense of enlightenment, worldly balance, guilt, and shame from Africa, and, most importantly, the loss of Ruth May. Throughout The Posionwood Bible, the Congo molded the Price women, it shaped their souls. Orleanna, Rachel, Leah, Adah, and Ruth May were all affected by their time in the Congo, varying greatly in their final philosophical perceptions— they lie on a spectrum of apathy to deliberating guilt, with cynicism, realism, and balance speckled throughout the...
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...In The Posionwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver examines the interactions between differing mindsets of the Price Family. Nathan, the abusive patriarch of the Price family, purposely sacrifices his family for his own salvation. Nathan Price beleaguered and demeaned his family especially his wife, Orleanna, because of his own guilt over his failures during WW2. Nathan feels like in God’s eyes he is despised and labels himself as a coward, to counteract his faults by devoting his life to missionary work. As his first act of sacrificing his family, Nathan forces his family to move to the dangerous jungles of the Congo for his own mission to save the souls of the Congolese and rid himself of his own cowardice. However his devotion to God is not to save others but to feed his own ego and...
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...bottom up” (Kingsolver, 444). Leah set a moral code for herself: family comes first. One recurring example of this is how Leah uses all her energy to take care of her children and always does what’s best for them, “I get out of bed and put on my shoes and force myself to take care of the children” (Kingsolver, 466). Anatole taught Leah to always stay true to yourself and be loyal, “Be kind to yourself” (Kingsolver, 474). Anatole went to jail several times, claiming that he will always fight for his country’s independence, “He’d rather be here, even in prison, than turning his back on an outrage”, “Anatole is in prison. Maybe for the last time”. Barbara Kingsolver’s novel, “The Poisonwood bible”, features a prominent young woman who leaves “home” and demonstrates how her displacement transforms the character, and ultimately changes the Congo and its internal relations with the rest of Africa. Throughout her journey she recurrently establishes a new “home” (dependent relationship) and abandons her previous “home”. Towards the end of her journey, when she finally finds her true self, she is the one in which others depend on. This correlates to how the Congo finally achieved independence and became the symbol for how the rest of Africa should fight for their independence. Leah’s personality transforms as she adapts and leaves her numerous “homes”. Some adaptations are for the better while others aren’t necessarily so beneficial, yet she persists through her journey and eventually succeeds...
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...Throughout the novel The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Leah Price, a key character and narrative voice, evolved and progressed through her tone, which changed from optimistic to sadness to anger, and also through her diction, which shifted from using admirable things to describe her father to using words of hatred and resentment towards him, and lastly through her point of view on religion, which changed from being a faithful Christian to truly questioning her belief in God. Leah Price grows all through the novel and the readers get to witness her transformation from a child at fourteen to an adult woman. She changes her country, then her religion, and then her respect and admiration for her father. Leah lost everything all the while gaining...
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...MANAGING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES SIXTHEDITION MANAGING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES SERIES Managing Cultural Differences: Global Leadership Strategies for the 21 st Century, Sixth Edition Philip R. Harris, Ph.D., Robert T. Moran, Ph.D., Sarah V. Moran, M.A. Managing Cultural Diversity in Technical Professions Lionel Laroche, Ph.D Uniting North American Business—NAFTA Best Practices Jeffrey D. Abbot and Robert T. Moran, Ph.D. Eurodiversity: A Business Guide to Managing Differences George Simons, D.M. Global Strategic Planning: Cultural Perspectives for Profit and Non-Profit Organizations Marios I. Katsioulodes Ph.D. Competing Globally: Mastering Cross-Cultural Management and Negotiations Farid Elashmawi, Ph.D. Succeeding in Business in Eastern and Central Europe—A Guide to Cultures, Markets, and Practices Woodrow H. Sears, Ed.D. and Audrone Tamulionyte-Lentz, M.S. Intercultural Services: A Worldwide Buyer’s Guide and Sourcebook Gary M. Wederspahn, M.A. SIXTH EDITION MANAGING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES GLOBAL LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES ST FOR THE 21 CENTURY 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION PHILIP R. HARRIS, PH.D. ROBERT T. MORAN, PH.D. SARAH V. MORAN, M.A. JUDITH SOCCORSY Editorial Coordinator Elsevier Butterworth–Heinemann 200 Wheeler Road, Burlington, MA 01803, USA Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK Copyright © 2004, Philip R. Harris, Robert T. Moran, Sarah V. Moran. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a...
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