In the novel The
Poisonwood Bible, fifteen year old Rachel Price is one of the four
daughters who is cut off from her normal life and forced to live in a native
land. Rachel seems to be dealing with the move the hardest because she is a
normal teenage girl who cares about her appearance and things like that so she doesn’t
really understand the reason for the move. Since they moved to the Congo in
Africa she has been cut off from her friends and all she has ever known. She doesn’t
like how this trip goes and her family begins to dread it except her father. Rachel
doesn’t feel safe, happy, or like she fits in.
Rachel feels the safety
of the Congo is very, very low. She wants to go back home where she knows she
can’t be killed by a bug. Rachel’s sister five year old Ruth May is bitten by a
Black Momba. Ruth May dies a few days later and everyone is in grief. This scares
everyone and they want to move back home for their safety all except Nathan
Price their father. Orleanna his wife insists on taking her daughters and
moving back home. The Congo was never the right place for them to go.
Happiness is the key and
since they moved to the Congo everyone seemed very sad. Their father never let
them leave the house anymore and held them under his power. They wanted to get
out and go back to a life they used to enjoy. Orleanna took everything in her
power to give her daughters a better life. That meant she had to leave Nathan. Soon
enough her daughters were home and happy.
Rachel never felt like
she fit in with the natives of the Congo. She didn’t really talk to them but
she knew. She missed her friends and her old life and could never let go of it.
Rachel was more of the girl who thought a lot of herself and her appearance. She
always turned heads and she loved it. Her only motivation was using her good
looks to be able to catch some wealthy husbands. Rachel is very egotistical and
materialistic.
In conclusion, Rachel
and her family were “exiled” over to the Congo. She definitely took it harder
than the others. Since Rachel is very egotistical and materialistic it made it
hard for her to go to a place that didn’t have much. Rachel and her family didn’t
feel safe, happy, and like they fit in. They wanted their old life back home.
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