The+Poisonwood+Bible

Questions: Nemu Oikawa - Why is the father so closed minded about other beliefs, and get so mad when he finds out there is another person that people look up to? - Why does the mother seem like the least liked one in the whole Price family? - Why is Mr. Price so convinced to stay at Congo, even when the Underdowns tell him to leave? - When the father hears that Congo will become independent from Belgian he says that they cannot be independent because they lack intelect, why is the father so sure that the Congolese people are not smart enough?

Mayra Salazar: - Why do the people in the Congo take so long to inform Mr.Price about why the Africans didn't want to get baptized in the river? - Does Mr.Price really think he can get the people in the Congo accept his religion although Tata Ndu is against it? - Why does Tata Ndu think that Mr.Prices ways are corrupt?

Fact: Poisonwood really exists, and causes skin and mucus irritations after you have contact with it.

David Ayala- -Why did Barbara Kingslover titled this book The Poisonwood Bible? -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? -Does Adah's health condition have a meaning?

CESAR BORJA: - Why does the father release the parrot Methuselah? The father released the parrot Methuselah probably because he was getting stressed out and wanted to blame something. The parrot was causing trouble anyway because it learned how to curse. "The first time my father heard Methuselah say, "Damn," his body moved strangely, as if he'd received the spirit or a twinge of bad heartburn." (65) This probably got him mad, you can tell because of the way Leah explained how he reacted. Plus the father wasn't succeeding in his mission to turn the people into Christians and on top of that Methuselah was just too much for him probably. -Why weren't the Father's fruits and vegetables growing? Is a metaphor for the Price family's presence in the village? - Is the father the only one from the Price family with a purpose in the Congo? - Why do the girls cover up for the mother when she cursed in and the parrot heard her?

Samuel Gauthier: 1) Does the Price family see the natives as inferior? Yes the Price family see's the natives as inferior. You can tell by the way the family acts towards the natives. Especially the father when he doesn't listen to Mama Tataba about the garden. "She had reshaped our garden overnight into eight neat burial mounds...Then the two of us together, without a word passing between us, leveled it out again.." (41) The garden ended up becoming a failure because it got washed away. Also when Mama Tataba told father not to touch the poisonwood because it was poisonous. He touched it anyway and he got itchy and swollen all over. He thought he was better then the natives and that is why he didn't listen to anything.

2) Are they learning that the natives are not inferior? 3)

Page 16-17 Paragraph 5-1

1. **Information:** - Wilting is to become limp, flaccid, or to droop. - Accosting means to approach and speak to boldy or aggresively, as with demand or request. - There have been missionaries in the Republic of Congo since the 1950's. - The Catholic Church is booming in Africa. - People in the Republic of Congo are mostly dark-skinned.

2. **Probing Assumptions** - Leah Price assumed that the African children hid behind a tree and squatted down to use the bathroom. She also assumed that the smell may have come from them going to the bathroom outside. - The African children assumed that the white people had gifts for them and stuck there hand out.

3. **Reflections:** I feel that the paragraph said a lot about how it was to live in Africa. It was just at the airport but already you could imagine the environment. The moment Leah walked out she smelled urine, which shows that her assumption about the African children peeing outside was probably correct. The airport police had guns, which shows how dangerous the area can be. The area these children live at our very different from the one that we are used to. The children were so poor and they begged the white people coming out of the airport for gifts. But when we walk out of the airport we don't experience these things. The air will smell of gas and not urine, the people around us won't be begging for gifts instead, they would be walking past us minding there own business. The difference in environment surprised me the most after reading this paragraph.

Simon Lam - Does Gender play a role in the book? - Does the father of the price family rule through fear? -why is the father so determined to convert the people in the congo to belive in the same thing he does? -Does women in the congo have any power?

Lorena Ureña - Does the poisonwood tree only exist in the Africa? -How old is the poisonwood tree? -Why does it matter if you plant your seeds in a mound or not, if in America that’s not how stuff is planted and it still grows? It matters if you plant your seeds in a mound in the Congo because of the weather. In Congo it rains a lot and when it rains if you plan the seeds on the ground like Americans the seeds will get washed away and it won't grow. So in the Congo when you plant the seeds you have to put the seeds in a mound so it won't get washed away. "Then we found the garden. Rachel screamed triumphantly that i was ruined once and for all...The torrent had swamped the flat bed and the seeds rushed out like runaway boats." (63) This was what happened to the garden after the long hard rain that fell on Congo.

-Who is the owner of the parrot? Where did he come from? -Why is it that the only sister who gets along with the children of the Congo Ruth May?

Ashley Diaz -How is the Price family affecting the traditions of the african people? -What is every member of the Price Family getting out of Africa?