The Bean Tree Phase 1 Analysis

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Phase one: Before you read Before i actually get in to my reflection about the book i would like to tell you that the book i first told you is not the book i am doing right now. There were many reason i wasn't able to do that one, first of all i couldn't find the book anywhere i ask all the libraries and they all said that book is checked out in their systems, second reason was that the book was extremely long and i wouldn't be able to finish it, third reason was that the book is extremely boring i looked up a book summary online for it and i got so bored i almost fell asleep reading the summary. So now the book i have is The Bean Tree, now don't get me wrong i'm not saying that this book is NOT boring but its better than my first book. And last thing, i forgot to ask you if this book is okay to read, but i asked the libraries if either the setting is in Tucson or Arizona or the author live in Arizona or Tucson and they said yes sorry ahead of time. …show more content…
The Bean tree when you first picked this book up and looked at the title and it said bean trees i was trying to put the puzzle pieces together because beans don't grow on trees and since thats not true the book cannot be about beans and trees and more beans. I thought to myself how can this book be connected to me and there were many ways, first way was if this book was actually about beans then it connects to me because my family and i grow beans in our backyard and they do NOT grow on trees, second was that the author and her daughter live in tucson together now. How this booked connect to my place this made me think a little for the first time, well i didn't really understand what you meant by "How is this place connected to your place" well what i came up with is since the books author live in tucson now, thats where i live thats the only things i could really come up

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