MISSIONARY WORK
The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, is a novel that is being narrated through the eyes of four daughters, and their mother, who have all been dragged to the Republic of Congo during the 1960’s. The reason behind these five young ladies sudden move to the Republic of Congo is all because of a man by the name of Nathan Price, the husband of Orleanna Price, and father of their children: Ruth May, Adah, Leah, and Rachel. Each woman in the story narrates the novel telling the reader how each copes with the new lifestyle that they are faced with, while growing up in the Republic of Congo. But what these women thought was going to be a short visit turned out to be their new home. Leah talks about the Congo saying “It’s a heavenly paradise in the Congo, and sometimes I want to live here forever" (Kingsolver 104). But what Leah doesn’t know is that her wish is going to come true. During the novel we see many arguments, constant conflicts arising, and many struggles being brought to the characters. As years and years go by we start to see the family drift more and more apart until it reaches to the point where everyone has gone they’re separated ways and the family is no longer together anymore.
The cause of all these conflicts in the novel and the reason for the separation of the Price family is all due to Nathan Price and his over obsession with his preaching and ministry. This leads me to my topic on this term paper on how I evaluate Nathan Price as a minister and a missionary. This history on missionary work plays an important part in this novel also, and with the information needed on the history of missionary and Baptist work, we the reader will be able to better understand ...