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Kristy HuynhJanuary 7, 2014Period 2The Poisonwood Bible Independent Study1. engage a passage that contains striking imagery. Analyze the passage and explain the forcefulness on the work as a whole. Clearing a fall forest to plant annuals is like stripping an animal first of its fur, matchly its skin. The land howls. Annual crops fly on a wing and a prayer. And even if you manage to get a harvest, why, you need roads to watch it out Take one trip overland here and youll see forever that a road in the jungle is a sweet, flat, impossible dream. The soil falls apart. The earth melts into red gashes like the mouths of whales. Fungi and vines alternate a blanket over the face of the dead land. Its simple, really. Central Africa is a rowdy society of flora and fauna that overhear managed to balance in concert on a trembling geologic weighing machine for ten one million million years when you clear off part of the plate, the whole slides into ruin To be here without doing everyth ing wrong requires a new agriculture, a new shape of planning, a new religion (524-525). Adah acknowledges what her father has done wrong and his softness to realizes his faults. The Afri fag end land that the family has set food on can non change according to their desires and attempting to do so only damages it more. Kingsolver illustrates that many do not seem to realize the impact of going into a country and intercommunicate them to change their religion, way of developing food, or their education system. Those attempting to colonize do not see the destruction that they are doing. Africa to Adah has been born like this, and postulate managed to balance together on a trembling geological plate for ten million years. This shows that balance has already been achieved in the views of the Africans and livin... ... ridiculous to Anatole that we have fruits and vegetables that are grown somewhere else and then driven miles and miles to the supermarket. The clash of the ii cultu res makes me wonder if the American way is better. It is pretty ridiculous that people cant grow their own food and only rely on the labor of others. Although I appreciate and enjoyed reading about a sphere in which I have no experience, the imagery in the hold up was more than enough to show me that I would not survive a day living in Africa. Kingsolvers vivid imagery and assist to detail hooked me the first few pages. (Like how the family wanted to bring the fracture Crocker cake mix). The different detail from each of the Price sisters presents Africa and allowed me to piece it together. I was also able to identify myself with each of the sisters. I see myself as Rachel, Adah, Leah, and Ruth May.