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By: Lauren Wise

Barbara Kingsolver’s modern and unique plot ideas, complete with her mesmerizing analytical writing style has made her a favorite author among readers young and old.

A signature aspect of Kingsolver is her ability to work veritable moral messages concerning society into all of her novels, which seems to attribute to the attraction many readers feel towards her work. Delicately, she intertwines multiple characters’ lives, pasts and futures in order to point out sacred life lessons that apply to characters in the novels, and to the very people who are reading about them. Kingsolver also has a knack for describing scenes and plots of time so intricately that a reader almost feels as if they are actually in the plot, watching it unfold around them.
These characteristics of her writing combined with her transcendent and lyrical vocabulary fuses the reader into the plot and keeps a tight coil around them until the very last page.

One of her best known onvels, “The Poisonwood Bible”, tells the story of a pastor raising his daughters deep in the missionaries of an African village in the wilderness. Besides Kingsolver’s incredible accuracy with landscape imagery and the intensity the reader feels between the characters, it is evident that it is unlike the style of any other author. As the young daughters of the pastor are exposed to the traditions and lifestyle of the African tribe and learn to live the same life, their outlook on life is compared to customs and values in America, and Kingsolver is able to display how similar these detrimental values and lessons are in order to live in any community. It is fascinating how Kingsolver braids together two societies across the world, unveiling just how similar the internal values of different cultures are.

Kingsolver digs to the roots of true humanity and the values of family, society and one’s soul, creating a fascinating aura of meaning around her work.

Some of her best and most popular works include “Animal Dreams” , “The Prodigal Summer”, “Pigs In Heaven”, and “Poisonwood Bible”.

Lauren Wise is a senior at Arizona State University studying Media Analysis and Criticism in Journalism. She has been a devoted reader of fiction and nonfiction works her entire life, and resides in Tempe, Arizona. She has moved 18 times around America, and feels that this attributes to her cultural and peaceful outlook on life and society. Lauren plans to leave for the Peace Corps after graduating college. She loves music, books, painting, her crazy family, and devoted boyfriend. Currently, she writes for A2Z Magazine, is the Op/Ed editor of Scottsdale Community College paper, writes for two ASU publications, and is working on a fiction novel.