Barbara Kingsolver Essay Examples

We all fear loss. An example of this is in “Fault Lines” a story in which Barbara Kingsolver displays the trauma of losing someone we love. Grace, the main character, experiences distress and anxiety after she loses her husband. Kingsolver (discovered) loss scares us so...

The assumption of growing your human capacity is along the lines that the life lessons that you learn and the challenges that you face will help you advance over time as an individual, but like many things with a large amount of stress and pressure...

Over time the definition of family has drastically changed. Over the years, things like divorce, separation, same-sex relationships and single parents have become much more common, and acceptable in today’s society. Despite the fact that these families have become more common, not everyone in society...

Past events in a character’s life largely shape the person’s present and future actions by shifting their attitudes, or values that lead to those actions. In The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver describes such evidence through Orleanna Price’s journey. In The Poisonwood Bible, the character of...

Is America an exceptional country? America cradled democracy by pointing out the nation’s failures, injustices, and founding inequities with regard to race or class. Exposing the falsehood of popular exceptionalism, particularly the falsehood of the notion that America is the ‘land of the free.’ In...

In the novel The Poisonwood Bible, the author Barbara Kingsolver uses the journey of the Price family in the Congo as a juxtaposition to convey a deeper political struggle of the Congo from its oppressive ruler. The author establishes this through Nathans’s characterization by showcasing...