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Lou Ann Ruiz lives in Tucson, Arizona, where Taylor ends up. She seems to be a nice, young girl, but unlike Taylor, she has made many wrong decisions in her life. She chose to marry early and against the will of her moth
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The part that struck me was when Taylor tells Estefan, "Do you know, I spent the first half of my life avoiding motherhood and tires, and now I'm counting them as blessings?"
Taylor left Pittman County to get away from the place where all the girls had babies by the time they were 18, and where it took 20 years before technology reached them. And finally from Lou-Ann, Taylor finds a beautiful friendship and a chance to impart some of her own wisdom to a friend in need. Lou Ann is a contrasting character to Taylor because the decisions she makes sinks her deeper into trouble. Even when they offer her to come live with them, Lou Ann refuses.
Taylor also makes a surprising discovery: Edna is blind.
This passage basically is what Kingsolver structured The Bean Trees from.
Another theme branching from the theme of people working together to create miracles, is the independence of women. Even through her blindness, she is the only one who is able to detect them with her keen sense of smell. For example, when her mother and grandmother arrive, she does not tell them about the problems is a facing. Now Lou Ann is separated and emotionally and economically torn. Turtle is nearly kidnapped by a stranger, Taylor faces the prospect of having Turtle taken away from her, Esperanza and Estefan run for their lives, and Lou-Ann must decide if she will leave Tucson and join her husband in a foreign place. Throughout the book, Taylor and her friends find a way out right of a problem when you think the situation is hopeless. She loses her job and end up at a tire shop, which is to her, the most dangerous place in the world. It teaches us that with love and friendship, we will find resources even in the most barren places during the most unpromising of times.
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