Trees

Esperanza is a character in, The Bean Trees who undergoes a significant change in character throughout the course of the novel. In the beginning, Esperanza is portrayed as depressed, withdrawn and dreary. Esperanza’s state of profound depression is not only evident through her attempted suicide but furthermore confirmed through Taylor’s observations. Taylor senses Esperanza’s depression and her first impression of Esperanza is that, “At one time in life she'd been larger, but that someone had…

The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver’s debut novel, was written while she was pregnant with her first child. The novel was published 1988, soon after the second wave of feminism, and shortly before the third wave. The Bean Trees follows the journey of Taylor Greer, as she leaves her hometown in Kentucky and travels across the country in her push start Volkswagen, to escape the traditions of Kentucky – such as teenage pregnancy, getting married at a young age, and frittering away her life. She is…

almost any aspect, from physically helping someone with a project, to emotionally by being there when you are depressed or stressed. There are multiple reasons why a friendship is necessary for human life. Barbara Kingsolver using the book the Bean Trees to show how this and how this specifically affects females. This book is about Marietta, how changes her name to Taylor at the beginning of the book, decides to leave to leave her hometown to go west from Kentucky. But not long after she goes…

(WENY) -- This winter's unseasonably warm weather is creating a change for maple syrup producers. The shift in temperatures has many farmers unsure of when or how long their tapping season will last. Even though many syrup producers begin to tap their trees in mid-February to mid-March, this season's unpredictable weather have put maple producers in a sticky situation. "The weather this year has us kind of scrambling. With some of the recent storms, and a lot of wind, we've had a lot of…

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…

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…

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…