Poison Wood Bible
In Poisonwood Bible, the major conflict throughout the beginning and end of the novel was of Orleanna Price’s guilt over the death of Ruth May. At the end of the novel however, Orleanna’s guilt subsided as the matured yet dead Ruth May spoke to her mother, forgiving her for all that occurred in the Congo, even though they did not directly lead to her death. The amnesty that Ruth May gave to her mother allowed her to be a truly independent person. Although after Orleanna left her controlling husband years earlier, she was still a slave to her own consciousness, which is why Ruth May’s forgiveness set her free.
The okapi story told by Orleanna differs from the story told be Ruth May in that the okapi story told by Ruth May describes it as being scared away thus, allowing the rare animal to live another year. However, Orleanna’s version of the story symbolizes the okapi as the danger and threats that the Congo has to offer and that just as the okapi stared her in the face,......
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