Characters In A Parchment Of Leaves By Silas House

comes near his daughter. After living like this for so many years, Emily is left with

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, Barbara Kingsolver shows Esperanza’s hardships through her overdosing. Taylor didn’t know Estevan and Esperanza on a personal level, they were only friends. One night Estevan came to the door and told her, “Esperanza tried to kill herself. Estevan came to the back door and told me in a quiet voice that she had taken a bottle of baby aspirin.” (Kingsolver 137). Esperanza had overdosed on baby aspirin which could have killed her. She was attempting suicide and wanted to end her life right away. Later Estevan tells Taylor about more hardships that they had had to endure while they still lived in Guatemala. Esperanza lost her daughter, Ismene, and that was one of the main causes of her attempted suicide.

All through this, she kept her baby. It grew inside her stomach as the beatings continued. No one knows Esme’s reasons for letting this happen, as surely she could have aborted the child easily, if not done something much worse. Some say she wanted the baby to be born to complete some sort of ritual.

He snapped after being told "no" twice and drove into an alley where he put duct-tape on her face to quiet her screams.

outside her home and Leonce repeatedly asked her to go to bed but she denied his request. She

Elizabeth felt bad so she allowed Emily to go inside. She remained crying throughout the night.

The doorbell rings and Abby gets the door and it’s Jax. He asks why he wasn’t invited to the party. Abby explains why and then he said that Abby cheated.

Danica walked through the woods slowly, no hurry now. She was never going to Susan’s. And it wasn’t like Aunt Viv could read her mind. She was much too powerful for that. Not that she enjoyed lying to her . She loved Viviana beyond all measure. But Viviana didn’t want her becoming too powerful. That was the way of Esme.

She evaded those blows too. Then she stabbed him through the chest with her blade and jerked it around inside of him to finish him off. As he gasped his last breath, she shrugged and noted, “Told ya.” Then she turned away as Celesta claimed him as well. While it should’ve been over, it wasn’t. She felt the vibe and swung her blade

Years passed and Emily wasn't a baby anymore. She was around 10 when she noticed that her family was not like the ones her friends had. Her mom was always acting weird and different and her dad was always making sure her mom was taking medicine, but he didn't look at her the way everyone else’s parents looked at each other. One day, She noticed that her father was packing up some of his clothes and decided to ask him where he was going. Emmett went up to Emily and told her he loved her very much, but he had to go on a trip for work for a little while. He told her to not upset her mother while he was gone and if she was scared to go in his office and get the paper on his desk. He felt scared leaving his daughter with Caroline but knew he would be back in 2 days. He got called to get to New York last minute and didn't have anyone to watch

Another thing that really emphasized the passion he had was his extensive research on questions that I had never thought about, but also didn’t know the answer to myself, such as why shoelaces snap, or why some plastic straws float. I often found myself trying to improve upon his hypotheses, and that lead me to read more and more. Even things he talked about that I couldn’t relate to, such as records or CVSs, were interesting, and his passion for each one came across in

to leave and when Nettie was leaving out of anger he told her that her and Celie will never hear

“I’m afraid we can’t get her back from the guard we don’t know where she is,” said Momma.

Ava could not let him be alone, she wanted to help him get better. They decided to move in together and try working on building him a better life, away from his family; as that is where Ava believed the issues sprouted from. Months went by, and the issues with Emmitt