Monday, March 5, 2007
Poisonwood #2
As my job as a musician I observed the language used in Genesis. One thing I noticed was that the author used language to bring out the characters. I observed that Ruth May talks in childish snetences and uses simpler speech. Leah on the other hnd, usually tlaks about how she respects her father and wants to be like him. Rachel, as I've seen is a typical tenager and talks about how bad the living in the Congo is. Lastly, Adah speaks with intelligence and silently observes what is happening around her. Commenting about what language flows, the first few pages of genesis are the most descriptive and pleasing to the ear. Kingsolver describes the Congo jungle down to the veil of spider webs that Orleanna and her children needed to cross. This book is filled with brilliant, rich language and captures you from the beginning.
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I agree. It's really interesting how different each family member is. Some of them are complete opposites from the other. How can a family that is suppose to be religiously unified have such different types of personalities? Which then leads to my other question if they are truly comited to being missionaries. It's weird because I think that a real missionary family will all share a strong passion to spread gods words and have the typical kind/loving/freindly/compassionate personality.
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