Final Project for The Bean Trees In The Bean Trees the characters had a lot of family problems but they didn’t let these problems get in the way of their children and their friends helped them get through their problems. “You’ve decided to take Angel back? Or go up there and live in his yurdle or what-ever? Angel? Heck no‚ not if you payed me” (Pg.307‚ Ch.17). This supports my thesis statement because it shows that Lou Ann is willing to give up Angel for Taylor because she does not want Angel to
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In the novel The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver‚ she creates a symbol of a rhizobia which are bugs that help support the root of the plant and give them long green pods. In the novel‚ we see Taylor and Mattie help support Lou Anne‚ Turtle‚ Estevan and Esperanza throughout difficult times. Taylor helps support Turtle when she becomes her caretaker . When Taylor was given the baby in the beginning‚ she never committed to raise her. Taylor began to accept Turtle and the responsibilities that came
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without telling us the bad things that had happened in the relationship. The Bean trees by Barbara Kingsolver also deals with a new mother who has to learn to do things on her own. This story is about a baby who was abused and abandoned‚ and she is later is given to the main character Taylor‚ outside the bar. Throughout the story the baby and the main character develop a very loving relationship. In The Bean Trees‚ the motif beans helps to convey the theme that‚ like a dried up seed‚ people can experience
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Author use many symbolism in the book The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver. She uses symbolism because it makes it easier for readers to understand the deeper meaning or feeling of the character or the events that are happening. For example‚ author uses the symbolism of bean trees as transformation and Ismene as the abandoned children to show the deeper meaning of them. “Turtle was staring up at the wisteria flowers. “Beans‚” she said‚ pointing... We looked where she was pointing. Some of the wisteria
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Taylor in The Bean Trees and Peter in A Walk Across America encountered many interesting people. Taylor met Turtle and Peter met Mary Elizabeth and her family. Turtle has a significant and positive impact on Taylor as well as Mary Elizabeth’s family’s impact on Peter. Both of the main characters were on a journey to find themselfs‚ and through it they met people that helped them do just that. In the book A Walk Across America Peter goes on a journey to rekindle his love for America. After about
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Friendship is the most important thing in life. Taylor realizes this through Estevan and Esperanza. She learns that to get through tough times‚ you need friends to help you get through. Through Estevan and Esperanza‚ Taylor learns the love‚ loss‚ and loss of friendship. Love and compassion are clearly present in Taylor‚ Estevan‚ and Esperanza’s relationship. When Esperanza was in a time of need‚ Taylor confronted her. Taylor could have sat back and watched Esperanza suffer and get Estevan all to
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Kingsolver’s novel‚ The Bean Trees‚ shows multiple perspectives of people who experience i mmigration. In the novel‚ immigration was a topic that was initially unknown by the protagonist‚ Taylor. As the story progresses‚ Taylor meets multiple people that are involved in the many facets of issues facing illegal immigrants. This pulls Taylor into another side of immigration and as readers follow‚ it makes them question if it is better to follow the law or do what is right . The Bean Trees suggests there
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Kelly Giannone October 13‚ 2011 The Bean Trees Essay In the Early 1980’s political injustice and illegal immigration were big problems in America. These topics were also issues in the literary works The Bean Trees by Barbra Kingsolver and “El Salvador” by Noel Paul Stookey. Both works make many points of the wrong doings of the government and the hardships of Immigrants. In The Bean Trees‚ Barbra Kingsolver uses many literary elements throughout the novel on political injustice. For Example
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In the book The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver‚ there is a young girl named Taylor who did not want to be like the typical girls from Kentucky. She wanted to go and get out of the small town. She got in her old beat up car and traveled throughout the United States‚ until she landed in Arizona. When she was there she not only had to deal with herself‚ but she now had a little girl who she named Turtle. This was not her daughter; instead someone she barely knew handed her off to Taylor. Turtle was
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By the end of The Bean Trees‚ Taylor Greer is almost an entirely different character from the Marietta Greer that she was at the beginning of the book. Not only did she change her name to reinvent herself after leaving Pittman County‚ but she also underwent serious internal changes as well. When the book opened‚ Marietta was a poor girl from rural Kentucky who was too afraid of rejection to even apply for a job. By the end of the book‚ Taylor has become callous due to the nature of the life she and
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