lit circle [moderator]

Leah Price:

1. Why is the Price family bringing so many cooking things? Is there some kind
of symbolism that represents the comfort of food?
2. What does the father mean when he said "Where we are headed, to make things
perfectly clear, not so much a piggly wiggly?"
3. Why didn't the airlines wiegh the passengers?
4. How does religion play a key role in this book?
5. Why did the Underdowns ditch the Price family?
6. What is this families main goal in Africa? What are they trying to accomplish?

Ruth May Price:
7. According to the quote "God says the Africans are the tribes of Ham." does
that mean they are bad people since Ham was the worst son of Noah?
8. Does this author seem racist?

Rachel Price:
9. Why would the Price family be "calling the shots" in Africa?
10. Why does Rachel have a contumacious attitude?
11. Why does Rachel seem to criticize everything she sees?
12. What kind of deadly weapons would the father have on him?
13. Is there a purpose for the father's prayer's to be so dramatic?
14. What did Rachel mean by "I wept for the sins of all who had brought my family
to this dread dark shore?"

Adah Price:
15. Why doesn't Adah speak when her thoughts are so brilliantly intellectual?
16. How did the family nearly come to the ends of the earth?
17. What did Adah mean by "Leah cannabalized me?"

Leah:
18. According to the father, "God created a world of work and rewards." What do
you think the Price family should be rewarded with?
19. Who is Mama Tataba?
20. What does the Poisonwood tree represent?

Rachel:
21. Why did they organize a pageant on Easter Sunday for the men?
22. Why don't the Africans want to be baptized?
23. Why does Rachel feel that it's her parents responsibility to tell the
Africans to stop touching her hair?

Ruth May:
24. How is it possible for the Africans to have big bellies when they have a
limited amount of food?
25. In this situation, do you think that it is bad for the Africans to steal from
the Price family?
26. Should a missionary father be dieciplining his children in such a way
that "the razor strop burns so bad?"

Adah:
27. Why does the father punish his kids so oddly?
28. Why is the dad so mean to the mother? Do you think he abuses her?