All 24 Uses of
malaria
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- Malaria is our enemy number one.
Chpt 1 *malaria = a tropical disease spread by mosquitoes that strikes millions of people in developing nations each year
- Those feelings below my waist, it turns out, were a side effect of malaria.†
Chpt 2
- Sure enough, when they'd finished passing around the newspaper article, they dropped the subject of the Underdowns' criminal-element houseboy and moved onto the subject of everything dull under the blue sky: new sheets, malaria pills, new Bibles for the school.†
Chpt 2
- As far as I am concerned you can chalk that one right up with malaria pills and Bibles for a tedulous topic, but Mother and Father seemed to take it as a shock.†
Chpt 2
- Mrs. Potato Head spoke up for the first time since they'd drifted from the subject of malaria pills.†
Chpt 2
- They were trapped on the peninsula, starving and terrified, and finally rounded up at bayonet point to be marched north through tepid rice paddies and blazing heat, marched through exhaustion and sickness and beyond it, marched from their feet to their hands and knees, emaciated, hallucinating from thirst and racked with malaria, toward a prison camp which few of them ever reached, and fewer survived.†
Chpt 3
- I'd begin, but no, "This morning I pulled back the mosquito netting that's tucked in tight around our beds because mosquitoes here give you malaria, a disease that runs in your blood which nearly everyone has anyway but they don't go to the doctor for it because there are worse things like sleeping sickness or the kakakaka or that someone has put a kibáazu on them, and anyway there's really no doctor nor money to pay one, so people just hope for the good luck of getting old because the†
Chpt 3
- It could be malaria.†
Chpt 3
- If it's malaria or sleeping sickness, I'm afraid they won't.†
Chpt 3
- Tata Ndu's attention then lapsed for a number of days, during which time we went to church, swallowed our weekly malaria pill, killed another hen from our dwindling flock, and stole turns sneaking into our parents' bedroom to examinine the small carved woman's genitalia.†
Chpt 3
- "Her malaria pills," Mother said, and she was right.†
Chpt 3
- They'd figure our God gave us scissors and malaria pills so He's the way to go.†
Chpt 3
- We didn't know whether she wanted us all to get malaria now, for punishment, or if she had simply lost her mind.†
Chpt 4
- For all these months I'd imagined malaria as a stealthy, secret enemy, but now that it was fully upon me it was as real as anything.†
Chpt 5
- I worry that I might have been indecent to them, yelling insults as Ruth May sometimes did when she was delirious with malaria fever.†
Chpt 5
- No one mentioned I was dizzy with malaria fever, nor did it occur to me to raise this as an excuse.†
Chpt 5
- But when I fell into mine, I was drugged with the exotic delirium of malaria, so mine is omnipotent.†
Chpt 5
- Anatole banished the honey-colored ache of malaria and guilt from my blood.†
Chpt 5
- We spent nineteen days in the infirmary, swallowing a variety of specialized poisons, since we had intestinal parasites, fungus growing on our feet and forearms, and more than the usual degree of malaria.†
Chpt 5
- Leah who, even in her malarial stupor, rushed forward to crouch with the battery in the canoe and counter its odd tilt.†
Chpt 5malarial = related to malaria, a tropical disease spread by mosquitoes that strikes millions of people in developing nations each year
- Anatole says recurring dreams are common to those who've suffered seriously from malaria.†
Chpt 5malaria = a tropical disease spread by mosquitoes that strikes millions of people in developing nations each year
- That he didn't die fifteen years ago of typhus or sleeping sickness or malaria or the combination.†
Chpt 5
- Like the malaria I've never shaken off, it's in my blood.†
Chpt 5
- Quinine just barely keeps my malaria in check, and there are resistant strains here now.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
a tropical disease spread by mosquitoes that, while nonexistent in wealthy nations, strikes hundreds of millions of people a year in developing nations -- killing hundreds of thousands each year
more technically: an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever
more technically: an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever