Imagery, Symbolism, And Allusion In The Bean Trees

In Barbara Kingsolver’s classic tale of a girl's journey for a new life, The Bean Trees, have you noticed all the intuitive tools she utilizes to capture readers. Kingsolver uses Imagery, Symbolism, and Allusion to convey the importance of family and show how the characters adapt to adversity. Her words mix and match to engulf readers and make us feel as if we've experienced Taylor's journey ourselves. Kingsolver’s fantastic Imagery helps build a view of the completely new environment in which Taylor has arrived. Tucson is described as having “rocks stacked on top of one another like piles of copulating potato bugs. Wherever the sun hit them they turned pink.” This is when Taylor realizes that she's in a whole new world practically and that her and Turtle must restart their whole lives. Imagery can be found throughout …show more content…
Kingsolver uses Allusion well from beginning to end to display the importance of family. An earlier example is when Taylor remember how her mother always told her she "was the best deal this side of the Jackson Purchase." She is referring to a historical event to describe how her mother felt towards her and how she feels about Turtle. Kingsolver also mentions Psycho, Paul McCartney, and National Geographic, but almost all are used to describe something about her friends or family. We see Allusion tie together Imagery, Symbolism, and all the others all while adding a family theme to the novel.
Each of Kingsolver's tools came together in the novel of the fantastical quest of Taylor and Turtle’s new life. Imagery lets us see her vision of a dangerous new land. Symbolism makes us feel closer to Taylor and Turtle by foreshadowing things that only we can see the significance of before they happen. Allusion gives real world connections with family values intertwined. Kingsolver uses them all to explain her message of the importance of family and the resiliency of