Characters
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Quotes
Symbols
Miscellaneous
100
The most narcissistic of the Price family.
Who is Rachel?
100
The Price family's original home (in America).
What is Sanderling Island, Georgia
100
Said: "Father says a girl can’t go to college because they’ll pour water in your shoes."
Who is Ruth May?
100
His fate is symbolic of the doomed Republic of Congo.
Who is Methuselah?
100
Takes the blame for Orleanna's profanity.
Who is Methuselah?
200
He picks up English unusually fast.
Who is Nelson?
200
The name of Rachel's hotel.
What is The Equatorial?
200
Said: "I felt the breath of God go cold on my skin."
Who is Leah?
200
Plant that represents Nathan's ignorance and arrogance.
What is the Poisonwood tree?
200
Found stuck to the wall by Ruth May's bed.
What are her malaria pills?
300
He was stoned to death.
Who is Patrice Lumumba?
300
The name of the country that Leah and Anatole return to after their education in America.
What is Zaire?
300
Said: "We are going to make the Congo, for all of Africa, the heart of light."
Who is Patrice Lumumba?
300
He is symbolic of the positive side of Christianity.
Who is Brother Fowles?
300
The animal that Leah kills in the fire hunt.
What is an antelope?
400
He wanted to marry one of the Price girls.
Who is Tata Ndu?
400
The first town that the Price women travel to after leaving Kilanga.
What is Bulungu?
400
Said: "History holds all things in the balance, including large hopes and short lives."
Who is Adah?
400
They represent all of the whites living in the Belgian Congo.
Who are the Underdowns?
400
Name of Adah's condition.
What is hemiplegia?
500
Killed by Mobutu's soldiers while walking on the road.
Who is Pascal?
500
The name of the nearby river.
What is the Kasai River?
500
Said: "Don’t expect God’s protection in places beyond God’s dominion."
Who is Anatole?
500
Symbolic of Nathan's failed attempt to impose his beliefs and culture on the natives (from the beginning of the story).
What is Nathan's garden?
500
According to Ruth May, the laws that segregate blacks from whites back in Georgia.
What are the "Jimmy Crow" laws?
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