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    A Recapitulation of Chapter #1 In the first chapter of The Bean Trees, the main character Taylor Greer (a.k.a Missy or Marietta) is introduced and begins her adventure. Taylor is a gallant, cordial, and courageous young woman that was raised in an agrarian sector of Kentucky. She decided to leave her hometown in a spontaneous manner, however, this didn’t go as well as she would’ve liked. During her move, she stopped in Oklahoma and ended up with a baby that was given to her by a stranger. The only

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    There are many relationships in bean trees, and the author focuses on females and their family relationships. Taylor and Turtle is one of the main major part in the book. For example, when Tylor first meet turtle, they leave as a new form of family. Most people think family is people who are related with you in blood like parents, sisters, and brothers. However, family is more than that, what family mean is love, care, and you feel safe with them. When Taylor moved in with Lou Ann and her son, her

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    Recovering From the Past and Finding the Self-Worth In the novel The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver and the autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, both the authors write in the perspective of girls who overcome obstacles in their lives and gradually grow into strong women. Both girls eventually find their self-worth and the places to which they belong. Taylor, the main character of The Bean Trees, is a studious white girl who dreams of traveling to escape her hometown and

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    Subject The subject of Barbara Kingsolver famous novel, The Bean Trees, showcases the real meaning of motherhood. The novel occurs in Kentucky and Arizona during the early 1980’s. The main character is Taylor Greer. Taylor receives a child, whom she later names Turtle. The child’s aunt can no longer care for the young child. She takes Turtle with her while job searching where she meets two women, Mattie and Lou Ann, both motherly figures, who help her gain a deeper understanding of what motherhood

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    Bean Trees Essay A community provides a web of support for every individual involved in it. This theme is heavily present in The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver, where there are a series of symbiotic relationships that make up a web of support for each and every person. The most obvious example is Taylor, the main character, and how she gives and receives help from Lou Ann, Mattie, Esperanza, Estevan, and even Turtle. Yet, it can also be seen between Edna and Virgie Mae, and between Mattie

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    Birds are a personal symbol for Turtle’s development. Throughout the novel, birds are tied to Turtle and major events in her life. Turtle makes her first sound when the car stops suddenly to avoid a family of quail. “I slammed on the brakes and we all pitched forward… ‘I think that sound was a laugh’...In the road up ahead there was a quail, the type that has one big feather spronging out the front of its head like a forties-model ladies' hat. We could just make out that she was dithering back and

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    Problem statement: When a user executes a query in a form-like online database, a large number of valid tuples are not displayed to the user, these hidden databases are to be extracted. Introduction: The paper tries to provide a better technique to the user to query the database. There are many interfaces that hide their data from the users and allow them to access the database in a controlled manner i.e., when a query results in many number of tuples, not all tuples are displayed. While some

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    Abstract There are many risks in using the internet irrespective of its popularity. These risks are network attack, and attack method which vary every day. This research is aim to compare decision tree method for intrusion detection. As intrusion detection is one of the major research problem in network security. Tradition intrusion detection system contain a number of problems, such as low performance, high false negative rate, low intelligent level. In this research work we compared effectiveness

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    The Dialectic of Metafiction and Neorealism in Calvino's Baron in the Trees. "I agree to my books being read as existential or as structural works, as Marxist or neo-Kantian, Freudianly or Jungianly: but above all I am glad to see that no one key will open the lock". The above quotation perhaps shows more than anything else the ambiguity of Calvino's works. The obsession to label all narratives arises from our compulsion to make sense of this world, as literary generic categories form part

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    The Bean Trees Essay

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    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. “Turtle was staring up at the wisteria flowers. “Beans,” she said, pointing... We looked where she was pointing. Some of the wisteria

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