questions

-Why did the Price family venture into the Belgian Congo?

On the most basic level, the Price family traveled to the Belgian Congo as religious missionaries. Wether there is any deeper meaning behind their trip has yet to be revealed.

-Why is the title The Poisonwood Bible?

In one segment of the book, Mr. Price is tending to his garden and when he sees a tree with a white sap, Mama Tataba warns him it is posionwood but he does not heed and awakes the next morning to find he has rashes and swollen spots on him. I believe it is called the posionwood bible because, from this event, you can see the Price family sees themselves as superior, but it the whole point is that they are not and that the natives are more inteligible in terms of their terrean. In short, the title refers to the fact that in the Congo the Bible (their church system and all) are different then back in the US.

-Why do the parents of the Price family let the natives pull their daughters hair?

-Why did Mr. Price picked the Congo to do his missionary work instead of another country in Africa?

-What role does Adah play in the book? As is seen in the story, Adah plays a very important part in the book. Although she at first seems like she would be a hassle and such, she actually escapes death, and through this brings more people of the Killanga to her fathers church. Although it was unintentional, Adah does show the people of the village that Jesus protects his followers.

-Does Adah's health condition have a meaning?