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Queen Curmano
9 November 2014
Freshman English Honors
Poisonwood Bible Book IV Dialogue Journal
We did not believe in voodoo spirits, and
informed each other of that fact till we were
blue in the face. But still there was some dark
thing out there watching us from the forest
and coiling up under peoples beds at night,
and whether you call it fear or the dreaming of
snakes or false idolatry or what--its still
something. It doesnt care what prayers we
say at bedtime, or whether we admit we
believe in it. Does it believe in us, thats the
question (357-358).
She was not baptized yet, he said. I looked Many points I would like to allude to:
up when he said this startled by such a
Kingsolver, Barbara. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel. New York: HarperPerennial, 1999. Print