Chapter Summary: The Bean Trees

Bean Trees Essay Prompt In the novel The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver the main character, Taylor, has changed exponentially as a person. Taylor grew up in a small town in Kentucky with only her mother to raise her. She was surrounded by people who were “scarecrows,” doing the same thing every day, never willing to change.

Taylor receives no explanation from the woman who leaves Turtle with her, yet Taylor still takes on huge responsibility of caring for the child. Then, Taylor starts to notice a lot of things that makes her wandering what happened with the little girl. Taylor starts noticing Turtle’s smile while she was bathing her, and she also discovers that Turtle has been sexually molested and abused. By discovering these details of Turtle’s life, Tylor want to know more about Turtle’s life. She start working, but Tylor keeps thinking about Turtle. For example, in page (69) Tylor starts the work at Burger Derby, but after 6 days she quiet. She kept thinking about Tylor and who will take care of her while she is in work. That shows how Tylor start acting like mother when she left her job and tried to find a good place for her and

Taylor being young and inexperienced with raising a baby, gets a job so she can provide for the both of them. Taylor also shows she’s a great mother because she understands what Turtle

With Taylor walking into the footsteps of motherhood she has examples to help her with like Esperanza and Lou Ann. As Taylor first takes Turtle an bath she realize on Turtle being “a girl, poor thing. That fact had already burdened her short

Resilience is the key to defeating many life challenges. In the book, The Bean Trees, Esperanza shows immense amounts of resilience, which allows her to overcome many difficulties. Esperanza resilience is shown in many different situations. First, she moved from Guatemala to the United States without knowing English or any other language. Second, she had a hard life when she lived in Guatemala, which forced her to battle difficult emotions when she moved to the United States.

In the beginning of the story we see that Taylor is an average teenage girl living with a single mother. She says, “But I stayed in school. I was not the smartest or even particularly outstanding but I was there and staying out of trouble” (3). She was called “Missy” for a lot of her childhood

The neighbors in The Bean Trees, were originally very rude, but after Taylor got to know them, they seemed very nice. Edna and Mrs. Poppy spent a lot of time with Mattie, Taylor, Turtle, Dwayne Ray, Lou Ann, Estevan, and Esperanza. Edna and Mrs. Poppy had been babysitting Turtle while Taylor was away. Mattie decided to take her, along with Estevan and Esperanza, to go out and smell the rain when it fell on the quenched ground. Taylor said, “I went upstairs to phone Edna and Mrs. Parsons...to say I’d be home later than usual. Edna said that was fine…” (Kingsolver 168). Taylor trusted her neighbors to look after her child and the neighbors were okay with her extending the time that they were watching Turtle. They had a friendship and a

A Coherent Community Community is the bond between groups of people that solidifies our humanity and binds us together. Throughout the book the bean trees, there is an abundance of community as separate groups conjoin to a seemingly unlikely family. The characters bind together in the sense that they all contribute to make the group as a whole better. The most prominent characters that are guilty of helping others are Taylor, Lou Ann, Mattie, Estevan and Esperanza. One example of a family in the bean trees is Taylor and Lou Ann.

First, Treelore, Aibileen’s son, was tragically killed while working at the Scanlon-Taylor Mill where he was employed. Aibileen says, “He slipped off the loading dock, fell down on the drive. Tractor trailer didn’t see him and crushed his lungs…” (Stockett 3). Aibileen struggles with the death of her son because she felt as though he could’ve been saved if white people offered to help him.

Story about Marches family that they are struggling with poverty.their father has gone to war at south.

She has no idea who the killer could be, and if the killer is amongst her. The only way that Turtle can solve this big mystery is to stick to her clue, which has something to do with the stock market. Turtle might not seem like the person that has a crush on anybody, but she actually has a crush on Doug, and Doug is too busy to even think about having a crush on Turtle. Almost all the characters are scared of Turtle’s shin kicking hobby, except for her family, Sandy (whom she thinks of as a friend), and J.J Ford (whom she talks to, to solve the mystery of Sam Westing’s

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.

Throughout the reading of The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver, I noticed a numerous amount of times where Lou Ann seemed to somewhat change her personality in some way or another and I started to wonder why throughout different situations in the novel, she would do this. As we all know, Lou Ann is one of the sweetest, well-mannered young lady in this novel who also has high respect and a lot of worrisome towards her family. When I first realized that she was having a hard time with self-confidence, I couldn’t quite figure out why until later on when I realized that she was sacrificing herself for others constantly. This is where I understood more about how she was having a hard time standing up and

Imagine having two brothers and a sister but only knowing your two brothers, but nothing about your sister. I got interview Taylor on August 31, 2016 in English 11. This was the first time I got to talk to him. He seem very interestion. Taylor’s family is interesting because of how many siblings he has and knows. His school life has changed a bit since because he moved from one place to another. His personal and hobbies are also very intriguing.

Dropping Mrs. Spaulding, Anna ran to the nearest house and began pounding on the blue door as she shouted, “Have you seen my son? Tom is just a young boy, and I’m scared. If he doesn’t come home soon, he’ll