Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.

Page 15 · column 3 of 6 · from the scan, no model involved

The clipping this text was read from
The clipping this text was read from

up your brain, Kingsolver forces you to care about what happens to her characters. The villain is Nathan, a self righteous Baptist Minister , and the only Price who doesn’t narrate his own chapters in the book.

Nathan brings his family to the Congo tb convert the Congolese into Christians, but is from the beginning frustrated because he’s too stubborn to adapt to Africa or people that are different from himself. Nathan’s attempts to baptize people are seen by the villagers as a scheme to feed children to crocodiles, and when he tries to proclaim the greatness of Jesus in Congolese he accidentally tells his flock that Jesus is poisonous. He’s mean and uncompromising and sees his wife,four daughters, and all the trials of The Congo as burdens sent by God to test him “as Job

92.9%