Turtle's Case Study

In addition to how the will was fulfilled, another reason that was brought into the book was about the fact Turtle’s life had been changed for the better. Throughout the book, she is ignored by her mother. Her mother favored Turtle’s older sister, Angela. Because T.R. won the game, she received the money start a new life. She went to school and graduated out of Business College. Because the book mentions this part of her life, the reader is convinced the book sums up the plot and main character’s life entirely. She also married one of the other sixteen heirs. His name was Theo. The will was the reason T.R. was introduced to Theo. Learning this convinces the reader that the book had a well-written ending. Because T.R. had found that Sam was still alive, she came to visit him

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

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

These oral stories, or histories, provides historical actors with an opportunity to depict their own stories in their own words, where usual written records often discount the great unwashed. For Indigenous peoples, individuality is critical to shared histories. Politicians, activists, and business leaders may materialize frequently in official documents and the media, usually manipulating it for their purposes, but the rest of us very seldom do. In The Back of The Turtle, Kings portrays a identical similar setting; a world full of media coverage that is manipulated by large companies, such as Dominion; “‘A spill?’ ‘No’ said Winter. “But evidently there has been some seepage. Possibly from one of our ponds.’ ‘Didn’t we fund an environmental

The influence of being raised by a single mother and the environment around Taylor leaves her determined to avoid motherhood and after finishing high school, leaving Pittman in favor of a more interesting life. Doing so makes her realize she is completely unprepared to take care of a child when she decides to keep Turtle. As she gradually starts spending more time with Turtle and living with Lou Ann, however, she learns what it is like to be a single mother, and grows confident in her abilities of taking care of Turtle. Moreover, she even helps Lou Ann gain more confidence in herself, setting an example of being an independent woman and even encouraging Lou Ann get a job. When Lou Ann does get a job, Taylor notices that Lou Ann “finally stopped comparing her figure to various farm animals. Having a job seemed to even out some of Lou Ann’s wrinkled edges” (205). Lou Ann learned to stop worrying over her appearance all the time and demeaning herself, showing the influence Taylor had over her life. Taylor’s presence helped Lou Ann realize that maybe she does not need to fit the mold society has set for her, and that she can be her own person instead. She uses that newfound confidence to help Taylor when her confidence in caring for Turtle diminishes. Taylor believes she is unfit to take care of Turtle after Turtle gets attacked, but Lou Ann does not let Taylor mope

Due to the difference in Taylor’s children’s behaviors, her parenting skills would have been divergent as well. In Arizona, Taylor had to move at a much slower pace with Turtle because of the trepidation she was filled with from her previous home life. After months of being together, three-year-old Turtle finally utters her first word to Taylor “‘Bean,’ Turtle said. ‘Humbean’” (Kingsolver 97). This reveals how much more effort it took Taylor to reach out to her daughter. In Arizona she had a much more abrupt maturing into a woman and mother than if she had stayed in her hometown. Taylor had to grow up significantly faster than if she had gone through the process of pregnancy in Pittman. There, Taylor would be able to become more mentally and physically prepared for being a 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.>>>>

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.

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

Taylor left willingly and by her own choice and could not wait to leave her home. Turtle, Estevan, and Esperanza on the other hand did not want to leave their homelands. Taylor left her home willingly, which is different than the other three characters. Taylor saves up her money from her job at the hospital and uses it to purchase a car and “in this car [she] intended to drive out of Pittman County one day and never look back, except maybe for Mama,” (14). Taylor does everything in her power to make sure that she will eventually get out of Pittman County one day. Even Taylor’s mom knew that “the day [Taylor] brought it home, she knew [Taylor] was going to get away,” from the place she has called home for so many years (14). Taylor is sick of living in her hometown and she feels trapped. She is itching to get away and leave and start a new life unlike Turtle, Estevan, and Esperanza. No one cares about Turtle or where she ends up (until Taylor) and she has no choice when it came to leaving her home on the Cherokee Nation. Turtle is just given away without a thought put into it and Taylor has to explain to Turtle’s aunt that“even if you wanted to, you can’t just give somebody a kid,” but that does not seem to stop her (24). Turtle’s aunt just gives Turtle away without any explanation and tells Taylor to “take this baby,”(23). Turtle is so little she has no clue what is going on. She does not know that this is the last time that she will probably ever see her homeland. Estevan and his wife Esperanza had to leave their homeland because if they did not they would of been killed because of the teacher’s union that they belonged to. The couple are “more useful alive than dead,” because they are so involved within the Union (184). They knew so much that it would be bad if they were killed and in order to not be killed they had to flee the place they loved. Estevan and

Each and every one of these characters influences Taylor and plays an important role in shaping her life. Mattie, the owner of a tire shop in Tucson Arizona, acts as a surrogate mother to Taylor. She is wise, caring, and loving towards Taylor. When Taylor first stopped at Mattie’s shop, Mattie helped Taylor take care of Turtle. She was very hospitable and gave Turtle some crackers and juice. Lou Ann Ruiz, Taylor’s best friend and roommate acts as a source of guidance and support to Taylor. Even though most of the time Taylor is helping Lou Ann with her insecurities and paranoia, Lou Ann never fails to support Taylor at her darkest times. Together, they function as a single unit, reciprocating each other’s beliefs and thoughts. Estevan and Esperanza, two refugees fleeing from their cruel life in Guatemala, also played an important role in shaping Taylor. After meeting those two, Taylor realizes that life is not as blissful as she thought it was. She finds Estevan and Esperanza’s struggles in Guatemala heartbreaking. Taylor begins to grow a close attachment to Estevan. After Estevan and his wife leave for Oklahoma, Taylor calls her mom, saying “I just love somebody I was in love with” (Kingsolver 234), implying that her bond with Estevan was something closer than friendship, despite the fact that he did not acknowledge or reciprocate

Regardless, Taylor is proud of her Cherokee bloodline. While on Cherokee lands, she is given a baby before leaving, finding out later that the baby, named Turtle, was sexually abused and molested. Taylor sees how helpless Turtle was, and

Sea turtles live a life of conflict with humans and the biproducts of human development and practices. At every stage in the life cycle of a sea turtle, there is potential for fatal conflict with humans. Conflicts can be divided into those that are direct or intentional, and those that are indirect, non-intentional, or accidental. Indirect conflicts are widespread and highly varying, while direct conflicts fall into the categories of egg poaching and direct take. Humans cause increased mortality and population declines of sea turtles through direct and indirect conflicts; these conflicts can be reduced through various mitigation strategies.

People should protect sea turtles as much as they can. It is always good to know about the animals around you and sea turtles are one of them, especially if you live by an ocean. Sea turtles have been around for over 65 million years and you can’t stop protecting them now.. It is important that humans respect the sea turtles and let them be as long as they are doing no harm to you or your family. Sea turtles are a big part of the marine ecosystem, they eat the seagrass, control sponge distribution, and also feast on jellyfish. Without sea turtles, these things wouldn’t be happening in the oceans around you. So if you happen to see a sea turtle, leave it be as it will make its way back to the ocean with its family.

Tiny turtle hatchlings from eggs and then the turtles leave the Mainland and towards the sea. About 15 years the turtle grew up and live in the coral rocks on the ocean floor. The turtles to travel 500 miles long, he'll return to land to lay eggs. In his travels while at the seabed, the turtles met with many fish are there in the ocean. The turtles see coral and he initially thought the only stunning coral rocks, but the coral is actually formed of thousands of animals are piled up on the ocean floor, their bones are growing out of their body and it makes it more visible as the rocks, they are stacked to make a superb structure and major cities of coral