The Bean Trees

The Bean Trees, written by Barbara Kingsolver, scrutinizes southern culture, family, and the struggle of being a mother. The book centralizes on a young woman who leaves home to set off and live by herself, and eventually met with the burden of taking care of a child, who becomes known as Turtle, she picks up incidentally in the beginning of her journey. Along the way, the reader is informed of Taylor’s different characteristics through a variety of different motifs Kingsolver represents. Birds…

In the second and third chapter of The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, she writes about Lou Ann Ruiz who lives in Tucson, Arizona. She is seven months pregnant and is married to a man named Angel. Angel was in an accident threes years prior and lost a leg. He highly relied on his wife for support. She happily complied until she started realizing that their marriage is falling apart. On Halloween, she comes home from the doctor to realize that her husband has packed his items and left. She…

The Bean Trees is a story about young women who live at a disadvantage because of an not planned parenthood but is trying to improve her life. However, Taylor Greer, one of the main characters in The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver, fell into motherhood that was not planned, “…she sets this bundle down on the seat of my car...take this baby...it’s my dead’s sister’s…and walked away…”(Kingsolver 18). Taylor had to take in a baby because it was thrown into her car. Although wanting to reject…

tall and act as the “rock” in order for the child to feel safe and secure and to continue to trust their parent to be someone they can trust. Undoubtedly, this ability to protect the child is possessed by Taylor Greer. There are many events in The Bean Trees that show Taylor’s strength and protection over Turtle. As soon as Taylor receives Turtle, she realizes that she is now responsible for not just herself, but for another human life. When the two arrive at the Broken Arrow motel, Taylor…

chiefly in her greater tenderness and less selfishness...Man... delights in competition, and leads to ambition which passes too easily into selfishness”(Darwin p. 586). In Khaled Hosseini’s, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and Barbara Kingsolver’s, The Bean Trees, women must meet ever-increasing demands and make sacrifices to maintain ties with their children, provide for their husbands, and support each other. The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. Darwin states, “a young and timid mother…

minute I found myself thinking, what is the point of life? I knew I was poisoned. When a human being feels as if they have no purpose in their life, it messes with their mind and sadly; I am not the only victim of this devastating emotion. In The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, Lou Ann’s husband Angel leaves her and she ends up raising her son, Dwayne Ray, by herself. The loss of her husband and her fear that she will raise her son wrong has led her to believe she is a failure in all aspects…

how they express normally and examples are shown in The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver , Mexican Whiteboy by Matt Pena, and The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson. Adversity tends to reveal a person’s true character like the emotions they keep hidden,the change to behavior and the acceptance of revelation. People often express part of their personality and when adversity strikes their true character is revealed. In the book The Bean Trees, Taylor is on a journey to discover new things by…

a positive, or negative way. Situations where the influence that parents have on their children is clear, comes in stories such as The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, Penny in the Dust, by Ernest Buckler, Mexican Whiteboy, by Matt de la Peña, and The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver. Parents influence their child's behavior and decisions through their personal growth, their actions, and their attitude toward their children. Parents often influence their child through their own personal growth. In Matt…

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Walking through the woods in solitude, a man lets his busy mind wander for a moment. With the sight of trees swaying in the wind, his mind understands that the heavy ice and snow is what bends the thin trees. But his heart wonders if it was a boy’s doing – climbing to the top of the trees just to bend them enough so he can let go and fall safely to the ground – that led to the misalignment of the trees. Around this fantasy of an imaginary boy, Frost builds the contrast between youthful…