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毒品圣经

By Barbara Kingsolver,在刚果的传教士家庭的一篇文为故事


在三年前,我答应了杰西,我会读的是芭芭拉金星犬,她说是她最喜欢的作家之一。所以,忠于我的(拖延)字,我终于到了完成毒品圣经Barbara Kingsolver今天早些时候。

绘图摘要

毒品圣经在其短暂的竞标期间,在刚果竞标的基本上设定在比利时独立。然而,故事实际上跨越了三十年,通过妻子和四个女儿的热心传教士,弥斯坦价格,搬到一个小村庄,千兰,要做传教士的工作。

随着这些捕鱼外型场所的预计,它比改变它更改它们。It’s a well-written and thought-provoking story, though it is clearly bent on challenging certain Westernized, I guess, attitudes (for lack of a better word) and on criticizing the U.S. and other foreign involvement in the economic and political affairs in the Congo.

虽然大多数故事都侧重于价格家庭的困难,但政治/社会信息以位和碎片中出现,并且终于在被迫逃离时更充分地光明。(本书中也存在非政治驾驶信息 - 关于人,人性等)

简而言之,比利时殖民地化了这个地方,基本上残障国家(不允许非白人获得教育,而不是建立基础设施等)。After the people rose up and demanded their independence, President Eisenhower, in cahoots with other foreign leaders, gave orders to have the elected leader of Congo assassinated because these leaders of white men were unhappy with the negotiations regarding the sale of the country’s natural resources (diamonds, in particular). They fixed the following election to have him replaced with a puppet figure instead, and corruption ensued (the U.S. began building a power system in Congo they knew would fail in order to saddle the country with billions in debt, ensuring that the flow of resources would be unhindered in the future).

书评

总的来说,这对这个强大而引人注目的书有很多东西。当自然灾害Occcurs,我最喜欢的书中的一条线之一。一个女儿,亚太,是一个蹩脚的腿,她的母亲选择拯救另一个孩子,一个不是像她一样“弯曲”的人。虽然亚太人设法生存,但她召回想要被拯救并感到困惑,其他人包括她的母亲,认为她不值得保存。在阿达的声音中,金龙手写了“即使是歪歪扭扭的女孩相信自己的生命是珍贵的。这就是成为王国的野兽意味着什么。“

然而,我有一个抱怨的是,当它来到这里的信息并描绘某些角色时,这本书缺乏某个微妙或平衡感。Kingsolver的rachael表征是一些Vapid以自我为中心的金发碧眼的金发似乎有点不公平。事实上,刚果原产地的人物的所有行为往往是宽恕和理解和行为,用于表征来自美国的人的特征,采取了更判断的语气 - 它们是过度,漠不关心的等等。

虽然Kingsolver巧妙地制作了一个故事,以展示我们的较小天使如何掌握我们的行为以及人们如何在非洲人物方面的环境中经常是我们环境的产品,但由于某种原因是只创造了相当一维的人物,谁只行动谈到它的西方角色时出来的傲慢和无知。

It’s an important message — that people often do what they have to do to survive and that people are capable of a wide gamut of behaviors, kind or unkind as they may be, and that certain environmental, social, economic and political circumstances can diminish or enhance those behavior. I just think it would have been a stronger one if extended to all its characters.

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