Seedfolks: Family Is The True Source Of Love

Another strong theme from the book is the importance of family bonds, especially if that’s

In the book Seedfolks, a character named Kim travels to vacant lot in her town, Cleveland Ohio, to plant Lima Beans to honor her father, who passed away before Kim was even born. While Kim is in the process of planting her beans and watering them daily, people around the vacant lot being to notice her actions . Many people follow what Kim is doing and make there own little garden, which causes the community of Cleveland to be together and to communicate to one another. Throughout the book many character come and go to the garden, and each character shares something in common with someone else apart of this Community Garden. The novel Seedfolks shows that the garden has change everyone’s perspectives on things, and made them feel apart of something they might have never been apart of before. Some people that are involved are KIm, Ana, Sae Young, Maricela, and Curtis.

In the novel A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith Francie is shaped the individual struggles she faces through life. Throughout the novel Francie is experienced to different life lessons. Poverty restrains Francie and her family with what they’re able to do. Having one parent figure not only drags Francies family into a deeper poverty, but it also brings emotional distress into the household. The environment Francie lives in exposes her to different religions, ideas, and hardships. Franice is shaped by poverty, one parent figure, and her environment.

What is a family? As a young child, Kingsolver played in her room with a toy set called “The Family of Dolls”, which served as the perfect example of what a “real” family is: “four in number, who came with the factory-assigned names of Dad, Mom, Sis, and Junior.” She always ended up comparing her family to this perfect idea of a family that she played with. As a grown-up Kingsolver went through divorce herself, creating a “broken” home for her child. Kingsolver experienced the abnormalness and society’s ideals pushed through her head. But although her family was

All of these little details contribute to Kingsolver underlying message of the varied kinds of families that exist, and the importance they play. Ryan acknowledges that Taylor has always known that a father and mother and 2.3 children don't necessarily make a family (80). Taylor recognizes the existence and importance of makeshift families, and knows what can be gained from the love of others. Kingsolver repeated theme of the extended family and how it benefits and helps one grow, is evident throughout her novel. She uses Taylor to illustrate her belief in Socrates idea of the communal family, and how it is often the best thing for the upbringing of a child.

Seedfolks is a story about people living in Cleveland and they live in a community that is not diverse at all.  The characters are all different races, so it is hard for them to go out in the world without thinking they are being judged or bullied by other people.  In the story, we see the characters building up to create a community garden.  This story is about how one act of kindness can generate another.  But that’s not the only theme to the story.  There are tons more morals and themes.  Such as the garden.  The garden helps bring people together and makes the dirty neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio more diverse.  The characters in the book all have something in common, they all deal with family issues and their races and cultures make them feel like they don’t belong.  But when the community garden is created, everything starts to change.  People become more open about their feelings, they have a lot of friends, and everyone we read about connects back to one another.  The characters in Seedfolks are different from one another.  They are all different races which makes them really self- conscious about how they look when they go out in public.  They do not easily meet new people due to their cultural differences and isolation in a large city.  But when they convert the vacant lot into the community garden, this provides them with the chance to break out and meet new people.  The book shows that this is an important thing because the more diverse and close a neighborhood

The theme of the balance of individuality and community is prevalent throughout The Bean Trees. The reader is introduced to Taylor's unique individuality combined with the community ideal in Kentucky. There,

Extended response to the book Seedfolks The book Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman is about a community in Cleveland coming together through a community garden. The book starts with a little girl from Vietnam named Kim planting a few beans in honor of her dad, but little did she know it would blow up into a huge garden that changed many people's lives. The book goes through a broken community that has many prejudices and stereotypes against each other. This garden helps them all come together and break down the stereotypes.

The novel Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman, is about a Vietnamese girl named Kim who started a garden in honor of her father. Many different people joined the garden,creating a community, and learning the importance of life. Seedfolks talks about the importance of diversity, segregation, meeting new people, and family. The book also sees through different people's views of the world and the community garden which is located on Gibb Street in Cleveland, Ohio. In the book, a theme that occurs through everybody's perspective is family. Family is one of the most important things in life because they can help you even in the darkest of times. People in Seedfolks, all mention their family and how they played a role in their lives, this shows that family can inspire you to make a change. Family helps you be the best person you can be and influence you to do something great. There are multiple characters who bring out the theme of family, they include: Kim, Maricela, Leona, Amir, and Florence.

One example of the family realizing the importance of family is evident starting in the first chapter, as the main character

On Mango Street, a family with a pet monkey moved to Kentucky and the children in the neighborhood take over the garden behind their house, the Monkey Garden. The garden was beautiful and filled with gigantic sunflowers, bees, peach trees, roses, pears, and apple tress. It was an exciting and magical place for Esperanza and her friends to go to. They enjoyed looking at all the exciting plants and animals in the spring. But no one took care of the garden and kept it lively, it had taken over itself. It became a place where old, unwanted cars were dumped. Esperanza and her friends still continued visit the taken over garden because they were intrigued by the way that things seemed to disappear; “as if the garden itself ate them, or, as if with

The most important member of the family is Addie Bundren who is the deceased mother that is even ruling the family from the grave. Addie has one chapter in the novel, and the whole time she complains about her family and how she cannot stand but one. The one is Jewel who is her son that secretly but not so secretly has a different father from the rest. Addie is asked after death to

Family is important to live a happy, healthy life. A poor, black family, the Youngers, live together in a small house in Chicago in the 1950s. Their main focus is not getting money, but staying together and loving each other. Lena, Walter's mother, is the head of the family and live out the moral of the importance of family. Throughout A Raisin in the Sun, Lena attempts to bring her plant back to life, which can be a symbol of the family struggling.

That alone shows that the family structure is the most important part of their life. They also have a feud with the Shepherdson family in this book because they were raised to dislike one another, but they don’t even know why the families have always hated each other. That also shows that family is important to them.

Leslie Marmon Silko has an enormous garden. It was started at her home in the Laguna Pueblo reservation, and took root in the desert there. While, like all the other Laguna families there, her home did have a vegetable garden and some flowers to add splashes of lively color, when Silko would come to grow her own garden, it would be planted with words instead of seeds. Nourished by sun-warmed sand and supported by the spirits of her ancestors, Silko’s words would grow, never to be cropped short or ripped out, and live on to become a flourishing garden, her legacy, as one of the first widely successful Native American women to become a novelist.