Character Analysis: The Bean Trees By Barbara Kingsolver

In her romance novel The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver discusses the importance of family and friendship. The protagonist Taylor Greer escapes her home in Pittman County to live a more fulfilling life elsewhere. She arrives in the Cherokee Nation where she is handed a baby. She names the baby Turtle and drives to Tucson where she stops by Jesus is Lord Used Tires and meets Mattie, the owner. The tire shop doubles as a sanctuary and protects illegal immigrants. Kingsolver uses the motif of birds to symbolize the illegal immigrants and emphasize a theme of salvation. Taylor moves in with a self-deprecatory, single mother named Lou Ann Ruiz. Lou Ann changes her negative attitude over the course of the book, which adds on to the theme of backbone and internal strength. Turtle develops an attachment to vegetation, a motif of the novel that symbolizes growth and rebirth. Taylor, Turtle, Lou Ann’s son Dwayne Ray, and Lou Ann’s family-like qualities illustrates Kingsolver’s themes of a true home and family. At the end of the novel, Taylor faces a difficult situation in which she Taylor could lose Turtle to further highlight Kingsolver’s theme of true family. Kingsolver presents the tension between legality and morality through the depictions of her characters’ choices and values. In doing so, she underscores the message that shared morality, rather than legality, defines and creates a better family.

Esperanza’s life in the United States is not any less any difficult or painful. In the spring, following her daughter’s kidnapping, she attempts to commit suicide. While Mattie rushes her to a “clinic in South Tucson where you didn't have to show papers”, Estevan and Taylor wait together. Estevan, her spouse, informs Taylor, the protagonist of the book, the ordeal that Esperanza experienced in Guatemala. He explains that the police abducted Ismene in order to coerce Esperanza into confessing the names of the members of the teacher’s union. After hearing this from Estevan, Taylor finally realizes “It's terrible to lose somebody,”

Turtle and Taylor end up living in Tucson, Arizona. Taylor finds a job and a place to stay. While she is in Tucson she starts to recognize that there are a lot of people in the world that have gone through much worse situations than she has. She tells Estevan, "I keep finding out that life can be hard in ways I never knew about" (141). She is growing out of her naiveness and learning more about the realities of life. This in turn is making her a more understanding and

Life is constantly changing, like clouds in the sky; always shifting and turning. People never really know which way life will turn next, bringing them fortune or failure. When you look at how things change it is best to compare it to something that you can relate it to. The changeable nature of life can be related to the novel 'The Bean Trees.' This is a book written almost entirely on dealing with changes in the characters lives.

Barbara Kingsolver uses irony and ____ in order to show differences in the roles of parents. Missy leaves her hometown and stops in a town to eat food. While there, a woman tries to give her a baby.

When they lived in Guatemala, there was a raid on their village. During the raid, their daughter Ismene was taken as well as, Estevan's brother and two friends were killed. Both of them were devastated by the losses so they ran away and started over in America. For safety reasons, Estevan and Esperanza were going to move farther away from the border. Taylor told them that she would drive them because she needs to go there to find Turtles relatives. Taylor was risking her life to for them to start a better one of their own. Estevan and Esperanza said they would help Taylor adopt Turtle as her legal daughter. During the adoption process Esperanza help turtle and cried because it was the last time she would see her. This gave her the closure that she never really got with Ismene so now she can move. Moving to different places was a big part of Estevan and Esperanza’s

In The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, protagonist Taylor Greer is not your average teenage girl from Pittman, Kentucky. Taylor refuses to remain in her hometown forever, which only leads to teenage pregnancy and motherhood until death. On a mission to escape Pittman’s stereotypical teenage girl image, she buys a ‘55 Volkswagen and embarks on a journey west. Just when she thinks she is home free, Taylor is left with an abandoned three-year-old American Indian girl. Ironically, Taylor ends up as an unplanned single mother. The two end up living in Tucson, Arizona along with another recently single mother and her son. Had Taylor stayed in Pittman her metamorphose process would have differed greatly from her life in Tucson, Arizona

The character who changed the most from beginning to end in The Bean Trees was Lou Ann Ruiz. When Taylor first meets Lou Ann, she has just been left by her husband, Angel, to raise her newborn son, Dwayne Ray, alone. Despite this Lou Ann still wishes for her husband to return because she believes that a marriage should last forever. Throughout the story, Lou Ann goes from relying on her husband to unbuckle her shoes for her to becoming an independent, single mother.

Taylor is a smart girl, she didn't believe it but she is. Taylor always had this thing of not having kids like the other girls she knew growing up. Yet some how this baby, later on in the story named Turtle, is dropped literally in her lap. The women who give the baby up said "Take this baby" (18) Kingsolver. Taylor is pretty apprehensive about her ability of taking care of the small child let alone her self. She still takes up the responsibility of being a parent, and to her luck shes becomes a real good one. The surrogate family she found herself immerse in even encouraged and support her with her actions on taking care of Turtle, saying "You can't promise a kid that. All you can promise is that you'll take care of them the best you can (177) Kingsolver.>>>>

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.

Starting right now, you’ve only got one Ma in the whole world,” (Kingsolver 302). Taylor made a comeback to Turtle calling Esperanza by “Ma” by telling Turtle that she only has one “ma” in the world and that’s is Taylor. Taylor was a character that was acting as a mother figure only to Turtle. Even though she had a child, Taylor was still a child inside that tried to avoid pregnancy.

In the novel The Bean Trees, written by Barbara Kingsolver, a young woman goes through a life-changing journey where she overcomes many obstacles thrown towards her by life that included her becoming a mother of an orphan Indian baby although she did not intend to. Throughout her journey, Taylor experiences many drawbacks that ultimately lead her to show her true heroic traits. Taylor manifests her heroic character throughout the novel by demonstrating her problem-solving abilities and expressing her sedulous, altruistic and considerate personality.

In spite of the fact that the book had a great deal of activity, it could have been spread out additional. It wasn't until the center of the book that we figured out what was medicinally the matter with Turtle, why she was so dormant. Considering this youngster was such a noteworthy part of Taylor's life, and would transform her future totally, she was not discussed as much as she could have been. It's similar to a fraction of the time she overlooked Turtle arrived. "It's interesting how individuals don't give that much thought to what children need, the length of they're being quiet"(280). I comprehend that Turtle was simply dropped in Taylor's lap, however regardless I think Turtle demand to have more consideration given to her than she did. I would have preferred Turtle to have been the youngster that was taken from the outcasts, the displaced person lady demonstrated her so much love. "I couldn't have taken her from Esperanza. On the off chance that she had asked I couldn't have said no"(288). I think they would have adored her a great deal

The Bean Trees is the non-fictional book created by Barbara Kingsolver, who illustrates many themes that can be portrayed in today’s world and societies. Kingsolver incorporates her personal beliefs and issues that occurred in the past or present in her writings when she makes books. In this this book the bean trees we learn about immigrants and social status, and different types of families and friendships. This essay will mainly be looking at the themes of strong female characters, motherhood, and survival and disasters.

Although the governmental status of America has been cast aspersions upon by the disputes of politicians’ corruption, the severity had never attained the state of complete calamity or malice, a seeming utopia in comparison to other countries. Conveyed in Barbara Kingsolver’s novel, The Bean Trees, whose plot encapsulated is an aspiring Kentucky girl named Taylor, who was abruptly given a Native American child on a blind trip to Tucson, Arizona. In this town, she discovers new acquaintances of which she experienced both good and bad incidences, while concurrently trying to construct a proper upbringing for the child. In the chapter,”Ismene” Taylor converses with one of her acquaintances, Estevan, an illegal immigrant who escaped from Guatemala. He states the events of the kidnapping of his daughter for the defiance of the