Critical Lens/Literary Theory Connection

New historicism is a lens at which the more you study the text the more you learn about the history, and the more you study the history the more you understand the text. Through reading the Poisonwood Bible there were incidents where i wish I better understood the political history behind he events occurring in Africa. The author uses this critical lens to show the importance of the understanding the political situation in the Congo. There is a constant ideological comparison between the politics that the Price family is use to and what the Congolese people are use to. For example Nathan Price is for a democratic system but when it comes to the election of Jesus, it becomes a dictatorship. This is that new historicism lens, that the political representation of an area can be represented by the individual characters. Kingsolver utilizes this to demonstrate the hypocrisy that Nathan has.