Alias Grace, The Poisonwood Bible Books Review

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Alias ​​Grace is a novel written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. This is a historical novel. It was published in 1996 by McClelland & Stewart The novel won the Canadian Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

The story revolves around Thomas Kinner and his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery. The story of the book is based on a notorious massacre of 1843.

Grace Marks and James McDermott, two servants of the Kinar family, have been convicted of the crime. McDermott was sentenced to life in prison and Marroux to life in prison.

Although the novel is based on real events, author Atwood involves a fictional doctor named Simon Jordan. He researched the case.

Although he has been researching criminal behavior, he has gradually become more personally involved in the story of Grace Marx. He wants to prove slowly that he was involved in the murder. Published by The Journal of Susanna Moodie in 1970.

The cycle of informed poetry was developed by his published work. The book is a classic of Canadian literature Because the book highlights the different experiences of the desert, the life of the immigrants, and the life of the colonial period.

Atwood later wrote a CBC television film about Grace Marks. In Elias Grace, however, Atwood says he changed his mind about Marx, after reading more extensively, and discovered that Moody made third-hand parts of his famous murder account.

Grace Marks has been convicted of murder. He has been assigned as a housekeeper in the governor's house.

A committee of women led by the minister and a member of the Methodist Church is hoping to pardon and release her. Grace can't remember the events of the day of the murder. So he shows signs of .

So Dr. Simon Jordan hired a psychiatrist for the benefit of his interview and for the better. He hopes to find her not as a criminal but as a historian.

An appointment has been made for this purpose. That is, Dr. Jordan will interview Grace in the afternoon in the sewing room at the governor's house. This is how the story of the novel is formed.

The Poisonwood Bible Book

A popular novel by Barbara Kings Lever is "The Poisonwood Bible". It was published in 1998. The main story of the book is about a missionary family who moved from the US state of Georgia in 1959 to the village of Kalinga in the Belgian Congo, near the river Quilt.

It is a bestselling novel. The title of the novel refers to biblical errors. The head of the family or the father made a false impression of the Bible.

In conclusion, he quoted his exhortation, saying, "Jesus is the most precious." But in his hasty mispronunciation, he said, "Jesus is the wood of poison."

The Price family packs up for their flight to the Congo, where they are going to spend a year as a missionary family. However, shortly before leaving, they were informed that they were limited to 44 pounds of luggage per person.

The Southern Baptist Mission League recommends that they solve this problem by hiding household items between layers of clothing to lighten their luggage, leaving for the airport after many layers of clothing.

This is the first problem many price families will face. Expensive girls - Rachel, Leah, Adah, and Ruth May - and their father, Nathan, join their first church service in the village of Kalinga and realize how different their culture is from Congo.

For example, 14-year-old Leah helps her father plant an "exhibition garden" and it immediately gets criticism from Mama Taraba, whom the family hires as a live-in helper.

Nathan tried to have an immediate Easter celebration in the hope of baptizing many people, but he did not succeed in baptizing any of them, because the river near the village, where he planned to be baptized, was attacked by crocodiles.

Leah and her twin spies start spying on Adah Ibn Axelroot, the pilot who brought the family to Kalinga, and Nathan Congolese tries to convert the men one by one to Christianity.

Meanwhile, five-year-old Ruth May befriends village children. He may have found out about AxelRut's business with diamonds after he broke his arm. After Mama Taraba left, an orphan boy named Nelson became a family servant.

Nathan and Leah go to Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) to see what's happening with Congo's independence. Methuselah (a parrot taken from previous missionaries) dies and Adah finds her feathers.

Ruth May became very ill and spent most of the day in bed. Leah Kilanger began spending a lot of time with her teacher, Anatole, discussing issues such as justice and the Congo.

Ilya wants to take part in hunting, which annoys the village elders, as it goes against their custom, but eventually, she is allowed to participate and even hunts a deer. The girls all gather in the morning to see the chicken coop.

Inside they find footprints and a green mamba snake. A scream and gasp can be heard from Ruth May, bitten by a snake. The girls see him turn cold and blue before he dies.

The story ends with a final chapter of Ruth May where her sister and mother try to visit her grave, but can't find it, and a woman tells them a place called Kalinga doesn't exist. He sees his sister and her mother, and sees how they have matured; He has also matured.

Through his death, he was finally able to understand the Congolese word Muntu, which describes the concept of unity and how all life is somehow connected. He realizes that he is Muntu and a part of what is around him.

Ruth May just wants her mom to understand the idea and let her move on. He wanted his mother to forgive him and not to live with the crime anymore.