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Kristy HuynhJanuary 7, 2014Period 2The Poisonwood countersign Independent Study1.Choose a passage that contains striking imagery. poll the passage and explain the effect on the work as a whole. Clearing a rain forest to plant annuals is like denudation an animal first of its fur, thusly its skin. The land howls. Annual crops fly on a wing and a prayer. And even if you manage to get a harvest, why, you need roads to take it out Take one devolve on overland here and youll know forever that a road in the jungle is a sweet, flat, impossible dream. The soil falls a take time off. The earth melts into rubicund gashes like the mouths of whales. Fungi and vines throw a blanket over the fountain of the dead land. Its simple, really. Central Africa is a rowdy society of flora and beast that have managed to balance together on a trembling geological plate for ten million years when you clear off part of the plate, the whole slides into ruin To be here without doing everything wrong re quires a unused agriculture, a new sort of planning, a new religion (524-525). Adah acknowledges what her tyro has done wrong and his inability to realizes his faults. The African land that the family has set nourishment on cannot change according to their desires and attempting to do so only restitution it more. Kingsolver illustrates that many do not seem to realize the impact of difference into a country and asking them to change their religion, way of developing aliment, or their education system. Those attempting to colonize do not see the destruction that they argon doing. Africa to Adah has been born like this, and have managed to balance together on a trembling geological plate for ten million years. This shows that balance has already been achieved in the views of the Africans and livin... ... ridiculous to Anatole that we have fruits and vegetables that are grown somewhere else and then driven miles and miles to the supermarket. The clash of the two cultures makes me wonder if the American way is better. It is comely ridiculous that people cant grow their own food and only rely on the labor of others. Although I appreciate and enjoyed translation about a world in which I have no experience, the imagery in the book was more than enough to show me that I would not survive a day living in Africa. Kingsolvers vivid imagery and attention to detail hooked me the first few pages. (Like how the family wanted to bring the Better Crocker cake mix). The different detail from all(prenominal) of the Price sisters presents Africa and allowed me to piece it together. I was also able to identify myself with apiece of the sisters. I see myself as Rachel, Adah, Leah, and Ruth May.