Precis

PRECIS NUMBER 1: In "The Poisonwood Bible" (Apr. 1998), Gayle Green states that “Orleanna sees the problem early on, but she can do nothing, caught as she is in the daily struggle to protect her daughters from snakes, killer ants, dysentery, disease, starvation – and their father” (1-2). She continues to explain this by loooking at each daughter individually and how Orleanna's actions effected them individually. In order to explain the impact Orleanna had on each of her girl, Green explains that her suffering indirectly shaped all of the girls in different ways. Green addresses all different types of audiences in this to try to explain the many different ways of thinking about The Poisonwood Bible and its different theories.

Green, Gayle. "The Poisonwood Bible." //The Women's Review of Books// Apr. 1999: 8. //Literature Resource Center//. Web. 30 Oct. 20

PRECIS NUMBER 2: In "The Missionary Position: Barbara Kingsolver's //The Poisonwood Bible"// (2003), Elaine R. Ognibene emphasizes that " For the four girls, she underwent an enclosed life, although later realizing that it may be the best decision to escape the power of Nathan Price because his “evangelical, self-righteous, judgmental attitudes threaten the lives of his family” (Ognibene 2). She explains this by talking about the history of the Congo first then developing into explaining Nathan Price as a person himself. Then by taking individual pieces for the novel itself she develops her ideas. She is directing a a large group to explain her beliefs on each character himself.

Ognibene, Elaine R. "The Missionary Position: Barbara Kingsolver's //The Poisonwood Bible//." //College Literature// Summer 2003: 19-36. Rpt. in //Contemporary Literary Criticism//. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 346. Detroit: Gale, 2014. //Literature Resource Center//. Web. 30 Oct. 2013.