Barbara Kingsolver

Helena Maria Viramontes’ short story “The Moths” follows a latina narrator as she recounts her childhood struggles with religion and family. To escape beatings from her father, her mother would send the narrator to “help Abuelita plants wild lilies” and other plants in “coffee cans”(322). Throughout the turmoil of her teenage years, the narrator’s Abuelita was always there to care for her. As the story continues, it is divulged that this time the help will be different because Mama Luna is dying…

Kingsolver makes the Poisonwood Bible a unique experience by telling the story from five different points of view. She tells the story from a mother and four daughter’s point of view. Each of the characters portrays the story in their own distinct way. The story is told by either Orleanna, Adah, Ruth May, Leah, or Rachel and they all speak in the first-person. The husband of Orleanna and father of the four girls, Nathan Price, is the only member of the Price family who doesn’t have a voice in…

in the colonizer. Kingsolver’s postcolonial nineties novel, “The Poisonwood Bible”, she critiques imperialist, racist, sexist, and ablest assumptions. Her characters’ experiences embody overarching ethical dilemmas within a hierarchical society. Kingsolver challenges ethical dilemmas particularly through her depiction of the characters’ internal desires for satisfaction and self-security.…

After reading Fish In A Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt, I have learned that Ally is a dynamic character. At the beginning of the book, Ally is stubborn, eventually, Ally becomes brave and confident. she stands up for herself, family, and friends. These character traits were observed through Ally ’s actions, dialogue, relationships, choices, and problems. Ally and I connect through our school experiences, she doesn't like to read and does not know how to read well. In my case, I do not enjoy…

In Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad discusses how the Europeans treat the native congo people. Throughout the novella imperialism is presented by the Europeans attempting to colonize the Congo region. Joseph Conrad explains the harsh exploitation of the Congo through the perspective of Marlow. Marlow sees how the natives are treated with disrespect as their rightful land is taken from them. By analyzing Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad through a new criticism lens, one can see that the…

elite drivers with an affinity for robbing banks at high speeds. Ultimately, family is what people make of it, and it can be the ‘traditional’ two parents, one brother, one sister, and one dog, or it could be a girl and a baby she was left with. Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees is the story of a poor Kentucky girl with small town thoughts and big town dreams who escapes her hometown without getting pregnant, but manages by the hand of fate to be left with a child that was never her’s in the…

Kingsolver is correct about America’s degrading basic survival competencies but comes off as a pretentious wide eyed idealist which leaves the reader reluctant to admit that she is right. Why? The argument presented by the text is compelling with examples of children who associated the dirt of growing food with something that is unsanitary or unsafe to consume. She further alludes to what we now call the “Purell Generation”, people so afraid of bacteria and germs they neglect or ignore the…

Marvy Baslous English E1HPI-2 January 4, 2106 E. Braisted, Instructor MLA Book Report for “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith I. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith constructs a bildungsroman. In other words, a coming of age novel is presented to the readers. A development of the protagonist Francie is shown as she undergoes a self-analysis as she matures while living in a poor area of Brooklyn. Subsequently, Smith’s use of maturity throughout the novel helps readers…

In the last section of The Bean Trees, Kingsolver continues to elaborate the need for others when hardships arise and allowing the theme to further grow. When Taylor goes to a lookout with Mattie, Estevan, and Esperanza upon her return she discovers a man attacked Turtle in the park which leds to her conclusion that “...all in one piece as far as I could see, but Turtle was changed. All these months we had spent together were gone for her. I knew it from her eyes…” (222). This incident not only…

A parchment of leaves is story about a Cherokee woman name Vine. Vine is said to be a beautiful woman and can cure people who came to her for help. A white man named Saul Sullivan comes to Red Bull Camp to do some work and meets Vine. Saul fall in love of her beauty and by her mesmerizing looks. Vine and Saul had a connection with each other and knew they wanted to be together. The Cherokee woman marries the white southerner named Saul, during World War I. After Vine marries Saul, she leaves…