Archetypes In Kingsolver's The Bean Trees

This story is about a fiction story about approaching adulthood , Marigolds. Marigolds are a type of flower. These flower are import to a lady and brings joy to her life during the great depression. Many americans ‘experience poverty and unemployment. Marigolds was written by Eugenia Collier.

The first social issue that Barbara Kingsolver wants to bring awareness to in The Bean Trees are refugees. Kingsolver sympathizes for the tall hurdles that refugees must overcome. She wants to prove that people who are not from America have the same value as those who are. In order to express this, Kingsolver uses Turtle as a symbol of the refugees as she was also separated from her parents and taken to a foreign land. By the end of the novel, Turtle finds a home within Taylor which is symbolic for Kingsolver's opinion that all refugees deserve a loving, accessible home. Virgie Parson is also a symbol for all Americans who have conservative political ideals and the nation’s haste towards allowing refugees and immigrants into our country. Although Virgie is not portrayed as evil, she is portrayed as having no sympathy for the consequences that alienating these aliens from our country will have and not thinking about the moral implications. By providing a happy ending for almost all the character, Kingsolver demonstrates how Refugees and American can both live peacefully as one.

Author use many symbolism in the book The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver. She uses symbolism because it makes it easier for readers to understand the deeper meaning or feeling of the character or the events that are happening. For example, author uses the symbolism of bean trees as transformation and Ismene as the abandoned children to show the deeper meaning of them.

At this point the poet uses symbolism substituting a flower for his mother. This is an appropriate symbol as, like his mother, a flower is feminine, delicate and

Another character that is connected to a flower is Mrs. Maudie because just like the Azaleas she keeps positiveness even though she's surrounded by negativity. The author quotes, “Always wanted a smaller house, Jem

In the novel The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, The author depicts Taylor as a romance hero who is caring, supportive and curious or Turtle and her past; Kingsolver uses Taylor’s care and love of Turtle to prove how even with a dark past, one can move on and live a happy and healthy life.

When people plant seeds into the ground, the seeds usually bloom into a beautiful plant. However, with growth comes obstacles. Weather and roadblocks cause delays or disruptions in growth. It takes strength and courage to move past these obstacles, just as Taylor has throughout Kingsolver’s novel, The Bean Trees. In this novel, Kingsolver plants certain tones and social issues as a way to make it her own.

In the fiction The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver uses metaphors and similes to demonstrate how a bird makes a nest in a cactus and a quail mother shepherds the whole family across the street suggesting that the young will be able to survive despite of painful surroundings and that a mother's maternity concern and love towards her children. During a doctor’s visit, Taylor's discovery of Turtle’s suffering from abuses in the past made Taylor deeply sad. At that moment, outside the window,"There was a cactus with bushy arms and a coat of yellow spines as thick as fur. A bird had built her nest in it.

Taylor, a character in The Bean Trees from rural Kentucky that was born in raised in the South is an individual Barbara Kingsolver can relate to, but this connection between the author and the character is not all that makes this book unique. Kingsolver Kingsolver also presents a variety of figurative language, such as symbolism, similes, and metaphors, which depict her Southern Dialect she was familiar with to express realism. The gender roles Kingsolver portrays is also unique; Kingsolver represents how women are very courageous and brave while being able to survive on their own, unlike The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien and In Cold Blood by Truman Capote where males serve as the dominant characters. What makes Kingsolver’s texts her

Symbols are one of those most important things to a story. They share the meaning of themselves, as well as the meaning for something else. Symbols usually make the important ideas stick out as well as make the reader have different ideas of what is actually being said. One of the many symbols in “Paul’s Case” is flower’s. From violets to carnations, the flowers Paul talks about are ones of many meanings. The flowers represent a continual motif, expressing Paul’s character.

Kingsolver implies the importance of accepting help from others by portraying various relationships the characters build. The characters in the Bean Trees become united as a family by the mutual support they share despite the absence of blood-linked relationships. This idea of untraditional form of family is shown from the relationships Taylor builds. When Taylor first moved into Lou Ann’s house, Taylor felt extremely uncomfortable accepting help from anyone. By refusing help from the others, Taylor was isolating herself from all the connections people around her were making. However, when she starts to feel comfortable relying on others, she considers the community as ‘family’. Change in Taylor is presented when she risks herself of being

By embarking on these journeys, the plot lines begin and end with risk taking. Taylor’s move away from Pittman and her taking Turtle, Louann not going after her husband, and the many risks of Estevan and Esperanza, create conflicts which drive the plot of The Bean Trees.

In John Steinbeck's short story, "The Chrysanthemums," he uses the flower to symbolize his main character's thoughts and ideas. There are many examples of such symbolism in this work.

These flowers are known to be a symbol of wealth, prosperity, and fortune. However, they are also called the flower of friendship. Peruvian Lilies are well known to mean friendship and devotion. This speaks to the character of Johnny. Johnny has been forever grateful to Mundson for turning his life around. Mudson made Johnny the social climber he is today. The twists in the Peruvian Lilies often mean trials and tribulation of a friendship. Which refers to Gilda's entrance back into his life. Her marriage to Mundson is an obstacle that they're friendship must overcome or be consumed

Steinbeck uses chrysanthemum’s to symbolize Elisa’s strength and power in order to show how societal standards cause women to miss out on opportunities and become frustrated with the confinement of their expression. “[Elisa] was cutting down the old year's chrysanthemum stalks with a pair of short and powerful scissors. She looked down toward the men by the tractor shed now and then. Her face was eager and mature and handsome; even her work with the scissors was over-eager, over-powerful.” Chrysanthemum stalks require a great deal of force to be cut down, which is highlighted through Elisa’s use of “powerful scissors.” Ordinarily, flowers are portrayed as beautiful and delicate; however, chrysanthemums are sturdy and tough. Steinbeck chose specifically to use chrysanthemums because they symbolize the strength Elisa has; she is confident, empowered, and masculine, but all of her strength is confined within the standards of society just as the chrysanthemums are confined within the walls of her garden. Elisa, as a woman, is unable to express herself as strong, masculine, and proud because that was not the standard that women were held to during that time; her expression is confined to her work in the garden with her chrysanthemums, and it is frustrating for her to miss out on the opportunities that would showcase her strength and let it be appreciated by her husband and the mender because of the standard of delicacy and beauty that women are held to.