Angelica

Chapter 1
== I am reading a book called The Poisonwood Bible the first chapter called book one Genesis where a family decided to go Africa to the Belgian Congo in 1959 to preach the word of God. The Mother Orleanna Price talks about her journey with her daughter it�s very hard to understand because each daughter is telling their own side of the story. ==

Poisonwood Bible: Things We Carried
=== I just started reading where each of the sisters is telling their stories and the things they took with on their trip. They could only take forty pounds on the plane but they did the smart thing by putting clothes on top of clothes and hiding things under their clothes. Which they didn�t realize how hot all those clothes was until they got their. ===

Wednesday February 2, 2011

Poisonwood Bible I am still reading the book the first sister tell the things she took on the trip her name is Leah Price I think she is the oldest of the four sisters and then its Rachel, Ruth May and her twin sister. I only read about the first two sisters so far.

2/3 Drawn by the promise of food, nearly the entire village attends the picnic. Orleanna had immediately recognized this picnic as a chance to gain some support for the church, and so she has killed nearly all the chickens left to them by Brother Fowles and spends the morning frying them. Reverend Price does not even notice how his wife has won over the crowd with her generosity and good cooking. He spends the picnic staring glumly out at the water, thinking of the baptism that has failed to occur.
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Ruth May
Ruth May overhears Mama Tataba and her own mother talking about their next door neighbor Mama Mwanza, who has lost both of her legs in a house fire, but continues to care for her tremendous family as if nothing were wrong with her. Ruth May reflects on the fact that many people in Kilanga are physically disabled, with missing limbs and eyes, and that no one seems to even notice this. Instead of staring at Adah for her handicap, as people did back home, here people only stare in horror at Rachel's platinum blond hair.

2/5 Nathan's demonstration garden is symbolic on three levels. First, the garden itself is representative of the attitudes and beliefs that the Prices carry with them into Africa. Like those attitudes, the plants are wildly inappropriate in this environment. The plants become unrecognizable, almost grotesque in their hugeness. More significantly, though, they are rendered inert and useless. They cannot vegetate in these conditions.
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2/6 Orleanna describes her own life in the Congo, the struggle just to keep her husband and children alive. With Mama Tataba gone, she tells us, she found it almost impossible to keep things going. Water alone required a mile and a half hike, and then had to be boiled for twenty minutes to kill all the microbes. While the natives satisfied themselves on the tremendous tubers called "manioc," her family required a minor nutritional miracle three times a day�the sort of meal that their neighbors might indulge in once or twice a year. Even their own supplies, sent from the Mission League, were difficult to acquire, since they were flown in by Eeben Axelroot who demanded bribes for every delivery. She dreamed every night about her children's deaths.
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Leah
After spending the first few weeks settling in, the Prices now fall into a set daily routine. Nathan wanders through the village trying to engage the men in conversation, or else makes the trip to the surrounding villages to see what religious state these places are in. Orleanna forces the girls to work at their schoolbooks most of the day, but in the afternoon they have a few hours to run free. The girls use old nature books left behind by Brother Fowles to teach themselves the native names for the flora and fauna surrounding them. Sometimes Leah and Adah go and spy on Eeben Axelroot. They learn that he has a radio.

2/8 Rachel Though it is the middle of the summer, Reverend Price declares an impromptu Easter Sunday to muster some enthusiasm for church. Until now, attendance has been almost zero. Though his intention for the day is a mass baptism, the men present in church adamantly refuse this suggestion. Instead, Reverend Price settles for a pageant, followed by a church supper down by the river. the girls had to wear the same old clothes they have been wearing to every sunday meeting which rachel didn't like because she was the pretty one.

2/9 Ruth May Ruth May overhears Mama Tataba and her own mother talking about their next door neighbor Mama Mwanza, who has lost both of her legs in a house fire, but continues to care for her tremendous family as if nothing were wrong with her ruth mau visit the woman and her little girls and the woman was nice. their are always good people out their no matter whats wrong with them or how people treat them.

2/10 Leah Tried to use her mother method on to take care of a gareden but it doesn't really work because the fruits didn't bear like they were suppose to. Rachels birthday also came the berry crockers cake mix didn't turn out like it was suppose to beacuse of the humdity in the air and made mother very upset and also made father mad all three girls know that their mother is the one responsible for teaching them profanity is bad, exclaiming miserably over Rachel's ruined cake, but none of them blame her.

Adah At dinner that night, Reverend Price tells a story about a Mercedes truck that drove all the way from Leopoldville to Kilanga using little boys fanning elephant grass in place of a fan belt. His message is that anything is possible, so long as you are willing to adapt properly.

2/10 Leah

"The Right to Die" The Saturday Review Some Indviduals belive that by taking their own lives they are doing something good nobody really have answer in deciding when to die but God people do have their own opinion I think the best thing is to live your life until your time has come.

I agreed with you until I watched my mother die of cancer. If she wanted to take her life, I would have helped her. (anne)

The Judges Orleanna Price is a lovely wife and mother who takes care of her family but as the story goes on Orleanna begins to tell how her husband want her to take the girls home but she doesn't have any money or friends to turn and its hard, becuase she is so far away.

The Things We Didn't know Leah: Is feeling bad her famaily is running out of money and everyone think they still have supplies also,She explains that those who have plenty are required to share with those who have nothing. Leah is shocked by such goodness coming from a non-Christian. Orleanna and Ruth May rarely get out of bed now, and Nelson is convinced that they are under a curse. Leah thinks of the chicken bones that Tata Kuvundu placed outside their door, but out loud expresses only contempt for the idea of voodoo.

Adah: During one of Adah's language lessons with Nelson, she learns that her father's church is populated entirely by those who are considered beyond the pale in their own religion: twin-prone mothers, lepers, and two men who have committed the unforgivable crime of accidental murder. Ruth May and her mother continue to lie in bed day after day.

Leah: Finally she made her mother get of bed she took her outside to get some fresh air and sunshine Anatole is a friend of the family he brought them a rabbit to eat and then he tells Leah that the chief of Southern Congo, the part of the country with all the precious natural resources, is declaring independence from the rest of the country, so that they can cut their own deals with the West. The two of them talk about politics, justice, and race.

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