Essays on Barbara Kingsolver

Throughout the novel The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, readers are given an in-depth glimpse into the thoughts and actions of the women of the Price family during their time in the Congo. Within this time, the audience learns many things about the characters and primarily the daughters, such as how twins Leah and Adah...

In Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible, an epic about a family’s tragic undoing and their subsequent rebuilding in postcolonial Africa, Kingsolver explores the theme of an inevitable power struggle between preservation native religion and the spread of Christianity. Through the voice of Ruth May, the youngest girl in the Price family, Kingsolver depicts an encounter...

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver revolves around the author Barbara, her husband Steven and two daughters Lily and Camille. They make a choice to move from Arizona to the Appalachian region. They had two homes, one being in Appalachia and the other in Tucson, Arizona. With their water use in Tucson, Barbara started to...