a bean trees essay

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I think that this is how most of the relationships in the story are set up to be. Taylor is a single parent raising Turtle (April) as was Taylor’s mother raising her. The characters may not be in the best positions but they are able to get through them just fine with a little support from each other. This novel has many fine examples of some ruff situations that people are put into and shows that sometimes all you need is a little support from others to get through them. Also Lou Ann Ruiz raises Dwayne Ray by herself since Angel left her and the waitress Sandi from the Burger Derby raises her son Seattle alone, since the man who impregnated her claims it’s not his. I think that this shows that the women in this story are very strong and show it by proving that they can raise their children on their own. The theme which I feel was the major theme in the novel was the symbiotic relationships involved in the story. Barbara Kingsolver did a wonderful job of coming up with all of the different themes of the story and fits them all together very cleverly. You can see that as she goes through different situation she tries to deal with them based on the knowledge that she learned from living in small town Kentucky. This can be seen in such relationships as Lou Ann’s and Taylor’s and also Virgie Mae Parsons and Edna Poppy. At the end of the novel when Taylor looks up the information about the wisteria vine and how it grows in soil that is no good but because of its relationship with rhizobia, the bacteria that fertilize the soil under the plant, it is able to still grow just fine. A major theme throughout the book that seemed to stand out very strongly to me was the fact that all the mothers in the story were single mothers, with the exception of Esperanza but she is no longer a mother since her child was kidnapped. These characters need each other for different reasons but in all the cases they help each other grow as better human beings. Even the way that she named Turtle for the way that she held on to her and wouldn’t let go is in a way funny in itself.

Common topics in this essay:
Barbara Kingsolver, Burger Derby, Edna Poppy, Ray Angel, Bean Trees, April Taylors, Ann Ruiz, major theme, barbara kingsolver, read book, little support, symbiotic relationships, bean trees,

Approximate Word count = 711
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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