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What Is Orleanna's Relationship In The Poisonwood Bible

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In the Holy Bible, which is inspired by the word of God, whom is the creator of the heavens and earth, tells of a story about Joseph and his brothers. In the story Joseph brothers sell him into Egypt slavery. The reason begin, Joseph father, guided and love him more. This of course, made the brothers jealous. In the story, of The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver gives an account of a father, who claims to be a loving and Godly man, however he guides his family directly into Congo slavery.
In The Poisonwood Bible, we first meet Orleanna, who was born in Jackson Mississippi during the Great Depression. Even though the Great Depression was in era, Orleanna was given as normal of a life as possible. Her father was an eye doctor who also ran …show more content…

In the beginning of Nathan and Orleanna Price relationship, he was just a young preacher trying to save her soul along with others. Soon their relationship developed into Nathan coming over all the time to see and peach to her. Originally it was her Aunt Tess, who said to her, if she was going to cook for him every Sunday afternoon, the she might as well marry him. Orelanna’s dad was
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upset because she became eventually a free will Baptist. Orleanna dad wasn’t too fond of her new religious choices. Her dad began to drink and curse at Orelanna for becoming baptist then the stress of her marrying. Obviously, Orleanna dad had other plans for her.
Once married, they traveled across the countryside to find work. For the most part, there time together made their relationship full of love and happiness. Shortly, afterwards, Nathan was drafted into the war. During his time in the war, he was shot and came back home. Their relationship of husband and wife would change forever. This was her first sacrifice. Just as the relationship of Adam and Eve in the Bible changed forever once sin entered their life and …show more content…

It would truly take a strong family bond to hold together in Africa, however not all made the sacrifices.
The people of Africa were in need of guidance due to the social and economic issues the country was enduring. At first in Africa, they were greeted openly and settled into a village. Of course, the relationship with the people in Africa and well as the family united within the Price family changed overtime. Just as the event in the Holy Bible of Joseph and his brothers. The brothers all grew up together and overtime issues of anger, jealousy and sacrifice affected them. While living in Africa things continued to decline for all involved. Nathan was gone from the family unit preaching the Gospel. This left Orlenna to become the head of the household. It started to be the only interaction Nathan and her had was when he would bring people home and preach to them there. Most people came because Orlenna would provide a meal for them even if she had to sacrifice her family from eating since the conditions in Africa continued to worsen.
Things could have been different, if Nathan was a stronger leader not only in the church, but

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