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Kristy HuynhJanuary 7, 2014Period 2The Poisonwood Bible Independent Study1.Choose a line of achievement that contains striking imagery. Analyze the passage and explain the effect on the work as a whole. Clearing a rain forest to plant annuals is like stripping an animal archetypical of its fur, then its skin. The land howls. Annual crops fly on a wing and a prayer. And even if you manage to get a harvest, why, you need roads to tear it out Take one trip overland here and youll know forever that a road in the jungle is a sweet, flat, impossible dream. The solid ground falls apart. The earth melts into red gashes like the mouths of whales. Fungi and vines throw a blanket over the face of the dead land. Its simple, really. Central Africa is a rowdy ball club of flora and fauna that have managed to balance together on a trembling geologic dwelling for ten million years when you clear score part of the plate, the whole slides into ruin To be here without doing everything wrong req uires a new agriculture, a new sort of planning, a new religion (524-525). Adah acknowledges what her founding father has done wrong and his inability to realizes his faults. The African land that the family has set food on cannot change according to their desires and attempting to do so only damages it more. Kingsolver illustrates that many an(prenominal) do not seem to realize the impact of going into a country and asking them to change their religion, way of developing food, or their education system. Those attempting to colonize do not see the destruction that they are doing. Africa to Adah has been born like this, and have managed to balance together on a trembling geological plate for ten million years. This demos that balance has already been achieved in the views of the Africans and livin... ... ridiculous to Anatole that we have fruits and vegetables that are grown somewhere else and then driven miles and miles to the supermarket. The clash of the two cultures makes me honor if the American way is better. It is pretty ridiculous that people cant grow their own food and only rely on the labor of others. Although I appreciate and enjoyed reading about a world in which I have no experience, the imagery in the book was more than enough to show me that I would not survive a day living in Africa. Kingsolvers vivid imagery and attention to detail hooked me the first a couple of(prenominal) pages. (Like how the family wanted to bring the Better Crocker cake mix). The different detail from each of the Price sisters presents Africa and allowed me to piece it together. I was also able to identify myself with each of the sisters. I see myself as Rachel, Adah, Leah, and Ruth May.