Poisonwood Bible Summer Notes

genisis one

• the first chapter is narrated by the mom of four daughters in the book named Orleanna who lays out a picture of a picnic by a river. after their meager picnic the girls go swimming up the river while Orleanna stays back and relaxes in the little meadow then all of a sudden she sees a methodological legend animal thing thats called a okapi which is like a deer in africa .
• one of the four daughters did not live through the end of the journey and the book is ike a plea of forgiveness.
• "Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us do not, but we wear it all the same. There is only one question worth asking now: How do we aim to live with it?" 

The three things we carried

• leah; she seems materialistic, she starts listing off seemingly object that they "need" on their journey to Africa, like betty crocker cake mix for birthdays, hand mirror, thimble, ect. all the things she thought she couldnt lve without start to burden her when she has to hold her luggage before she gets on the plane.
• ruth may; shes five years old, and all she remembered was about the blacks in africa that she was going to help.
• racheal price; shes fifteen years old and is the no religious one out of the bunch