fearless. In The Bean Trees‚ Taylor is faced with many challenges that she has to overcome. These challenges will test her strength and ability to be true to herself. The first challenge Taylor is faced with is Turtle. That one fateful night‚ when she found Turtle in the back of her car‚ Taylor has changed. She never wanted a kid‚ yet there is one in front of her. It was challenging because she didn’t have experience with children. When Taylor got back on the road‚ in the book it says “ I held
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Friends do not stay forever‚ but family‚ the family would never leave. Dead or Alive‚ blood kin or not‚ the people that you share the mutual feeling of love with will always stay in your heart. For Taylor though‚ one of the main characters in the book‚ The Bean Trees‚ she never really had much to lose. So when she starts to get more and more loved ones in her life‚ Turtle‚ Lou Ann‚ Estevan‚ she starts to get scared because there is a more of a risk of losing them. In which‚ one she does lose‚ and the other
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The Different Side of Family Barbara Kingsolver‚ in her novel The Bean Trees‚ utilizes figurative language to emphasize on daughters and families that exhibits the harsh truth behind being a person. Lou Ann ponders this when another character named Lee Sing states‚ “ ‘Feeding a girl is like feeding the neighbor’s New Year pig. All that work. In the end‚ it goes to some other family’ ” (43). This simile that compares girls to New Year pig stresses that the effort that parents put into their daughters
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The plight of immigrants can only be told through experience not statistics mainly because statistics do not convey the predicament that they face in real life. Barbara Kingsolver’s novel‚ The Bean Trees‚ revolves around a young woman named Taylor who has never been a victim of injustice because she’s lived in rural Kentucky her whole life and once she leaves her county‚ she is exposed to the harsh reality beyond the boundaries. She began her journey in Pittman County where not much occurs and headed
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In this novel The Bean Trees the family aspect is not the traditional way of the American Dream. The “American Dream” is typically a father‚ mother‚ kids‚ and a house with a white picket fence. This novel shows a whole other way of being a being a family‚ and granted it isn’t the way most people think a family should be. Taylor Greer is a teenage girl who picked up and moved from Pittman County‚ Kentucky. She decided to move because the “norm” there wasn’t something she thought would suit her.
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Sometimes we feel hopeless‚ unable to believe in ourselves‚ and we come close to quitting. It is then that we need a friend‚ someone that can be there for us in our times of need to support and keep pushing us to maximize our potential. In The Bean Trees‚ Taylor is faced with multiple adversities‚ and struggles to overcome them when she finds herself alone. Through her novel‚ Kingsolver illustrates with character development and dialogues how Taylor must form solid bonds with others in order to
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Characters: Characters play a major role in the novel The Bean Trees‚ however Taylor Greer or formally known as Missy Marietta plays the largest role in the novel. “... she entertained me with her vegetable-soup song‚ except that now there were people mixed in with the beans and potatoes...And me. I was the main ingredient‚”(Kingsolver 246). This quote describes Taylor to the point‚ because she is the main ingredient to many people’s lives. However‚ it also shows how Taylor may be somewhat
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(Holzer). Despite all the downsides‚ there is a small hint of people benefiting from being in poverty. Being in poverty can help people appreciate the little things in life; this is exactly the message that Barbara Kingsolver relays in her book The Bean Trees. The Bean Trees is a story set in 1970’s Kentucky and Arizona about Taylor‚ a young woman growing up and becoming independent who has been affected by poverty her entire life. As the story unfolds and Taylor’s character is developed it is shown
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The Bean Trees novel‚ written by Barbara Kingsolver is a novel that talks‚ particularly about the shared burden of Womanhood. The novel begins when a woman gives a female American Indian child to the protagonist of the story‚ Taylor Greer. Equality between women and men has been an issue around the globe for years. In some communities‚ women do have legal rights as many say‚ but many statistics have pointed out that men around the world have better access to education than women. According to women’s
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In the book‚ The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver‚ there are many different moments in the book that show what women may go through in their lifetime. Getting pregnant‚ moving away‚ people leaving‚ being alone‚ and other situations that still occur today. The main character Taylor moves in with Lou Ann‚ and young woman who was just left by her husband. She is caring for a child on her own and didn’t understand the struggle some women go through‚ until she decides to visit the strip club in her
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