Genesis.

"Maybe I'll even confess the truth, that I rode in with the horsemen and beheld the apocalypse, but still I'll insist I was only a captive witness. What is the conqueror's wife, if not a conquest herself? For that matter what is he?" 
(Kingsolver 9)

In the first book of The Poisonwood Bible by Sarah Kingsolver, Genesis, Orleanna Price, the wife of a southern Baptist, is the first narrator that is introduce to the reader. She begins narrating her experience while being a time in Congo, Africa through a first-person point of view. Orleanna stated the following quote towards the end of her narration which pleads for forgiveness and tries to find an excuse or personal internal peace of some sort to tragedy that happened. I chose this particular quote because coming from a familiar background with Biblical allusions only in Spanish, I was greatly surprised to find this hyperbole that compares her experience with the greatly horrifying event to be, the Apocalypse. This quote introduced to me the great feeling of guilt she has and creates tension and a mystery of finding out what exactly caused this remorse. 


Analysis: Due to the rhetorical questions asked, this quote foreshadows an intimate part of Orleanna as a character revealing a not so stable marriage. Using the apocalypse as an synonym to Orleanna's experience is a symbol itself due to the fact the apocalypse is the Biblical event that will end the world in great pain and repentance will be no longer accepted by God.