Poisonwood Bible
List of
Characters
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Nathan
Price-Baptist Minister who wants to save souls through missionary work.
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Orleanna
Price- Married Nathan at the age of
17. She loses will power to stand up
against her husband and his abuse until the death of Ruth May. She leaves him along with two of her
daughters.
·
Rachel
Price- Self-centered and materialistic. She fakes a marriage with Eeben
Axelroot until he flies her to South Africa.
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Leah
Price- Twins with Adah. She is smart and compassionate but she falls away from
her religion and marries Anatole Ngemba and has three children Pascal, Patrice,
and Nathan.
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Adah
Price- Twins with Leah She is crippled on the left side of her body and a mute
since birth. She is healed and becomes a scientist.
·
Ruth
May Price-She was friendly 5 year old who dies from a snake bite.
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Eeben
Axelroot- would not deliver mail to Price unless with a bribe. Had many fake
engagements Rachel Price.
·
Anatole Ngemba-
Translates sermons and is schoolteacher who marries Leah.
·
Nelson- Best friends to
Anatole and works for the Price. In exchange he learns English and teaches them
the customs of his culture.
Narrators-
Oreleanna, Rachel, Leah, Adah, Ruth May
Protagonist
is Nathan because he is not able to tell his story in his own words or his
point of view.
Story told
in first person. Past tense with Oreleanna and present tense with Rachel, Leah,
Adah, and Ruth May.
Setting: 3o years from 1959-1998, Belgian
Congo
Other settings: Atlanta and
Sanderling Island, Johannesburg, South Africa, and the French Congo
Major
Conflict is guilt. From the death of Ruth May to the morals of Nathan Price and
the leaving of Orleanna and her daughters.
Although Orleanna has the courage to leave her husband after Ruth May’s
death she is burdened with guilt. Throughout the Books Nathan Price struggles
with morals. He believes that in order to please God he must save the souls of
others.
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