The Bean Trees

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but I see those words not in details in the picture, but the stories and lesson it speaks. I look at a picture that looks like any other you would typically see. It’s only a picture of a smiling boy in a frozen forest. But to me, I see a story and a life of someone in a different mindset that I can relate to. This person was not as adventurous and I would have liked, but once it came down to it, I didn't regret involving myself in these…

explaining the life of a boy through his adventures with the outside world, specifically birch trees. In the first lines the speaker shows his attentiveness towards the birch tree. He watches the birch trees “bend to left and right.” The speaker examines the trees so closely because the tree must be conquered in order to achieve adulthood. Line 2: He watches them bend “across the lines of straighter darker trees,” Across the lines means difference between things that are easy to achieve because…

In Anderson’s book Speak, Anderson uses this quote “This looks like a tree, but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it make it bend— trees are flexible, so they don’t snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch— perfect trees don’t exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.” (Anderson pg.153). Meaning, people go through many things in their life and hide their scars where no one will notice and raise any questions that pass the mind. You may see a…

interconnected everything is in an ecosystem. Sadly, since they were gone so long, they were unable to make a large difference to the Yellowstone ecosystem when reintroduced. In addition, Arthur Middleton writes that “a few small patches of Yellowstone’s trees do appear to have benefited from elk declines, but wolves are not the only cause of those declines.” This shows that other factors like human hunting, growing bear numbers, and severe drought are also reasons for reduced elk populations.…

Imagine all the trees are gone, and everything is plastic. We run off man-made air. There is one tree left and it is owned by the government and you can’t get closed to it. Roosevelt’s claim relates to Autumnime with vital reasons of how we should conserve our resources better before they are all gone. In Autumntime everyone is living off of man-made air. There are no real trees left, but one. The government owns it, nobody is allowed to go very close to it. One child takes an acorn after…

Obviously there is another side to Thoreau with which "Birches" does not strife. A Thoreau more suitable to Frost shows up in a Journal passage six months before the striking ice tempest of December 31, 1852. He expresses: "Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated with one's native place, for instance. She is most significant to a lover. A lover of Nature is preeminently a lover of man. If I have no…

The character Tree-ear in the story A Single Shard is a poor orphan boy from Korea who lives in Ch’ulp’o with a wise elderly man named Crane-man and worked for Min the master potter that had several different characteristic changes and also even mental changes. From the beginning from the end of the novel A Single Shard. In the beginning, he is more timid and hesitant than he was in contrast with the end when he is more brave and forward thinking. Tree-ear was a curious kid at the beginning…

Tree-ear, an orphan abandoned after the death of his parents, a kid with street smarts, and the apprentice of Min, a respected Korean potter. Tree-ear was sheltered and cared for by Crane-man his friend and surrogate father until he died a sorrow death. That is when Ajima and Min took him in as their own giving him the name Hyung-pil. At the start of the story Tree-ear does not have as much wisdom and smarts compared to himself at the closing of the story. At the opening of A Single Shard…

mean that soybeans and peanuts aren’t healthy. It simply means that the majority of their calories don’t come from carbohydrates. Legumes have many subcategories: beans, peas, lentils and an ‘other’ category. You’re most likely familiar with many beans. Kidney beans, black beans, navy beans, and broad beans are just a few examples of beans that are quality…

another I have inspired someone to incorporate a new recipe into their reservoir of recipes. I have three examples of such instances. The first one was when I made a white bean hummus. Two women who participated were amazed at the recipe 's simplicity. No equipment like a food processor was needed. The recipe merely called for white beans (canned), some chives, lemon juice, and olive oil. They were combined in a bowl and then mashed. Then it was served with some delicious and refreshing raw…