![]() Back in Georgia after the years in Africa, she recalls events her daughters' voices, however, seem to be describing experiences as they unfold. Orleanna is given the benefit of hindsight. The convention has evolved to allow us to imagine narrative voices as expressions of different characters' thoughts. The voices of her characters are as much written as spoken. Kingsolver does not, however, attempt so closely to follow the patterns of everyday speech. ![]() The Poisonwood Bible carries memories of Faulkner: the family comes originally from Mississippi, like Faulkner's, and their locutions have a Southern twang ("I was sore at father all right … But it was plain to see he was put out, too, something fierce"). In the early 20th century it was associated with some of the pioneers of modernism – Virginia Woolf in The Waves or William Faulkner in As I Lay Dying. It was pioneered in the 19th century by Wilkie Collins in The Moonstone, a crime mystery in which different characters spoke in turn as if giving evidence in a trial. ![]() Telling a story in a sequence of monologues by different characters is a surprisingly old novelistic technique. ![]()
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