THE BEAN TREES

Taylor values working hard to earn money and learns the value of family through her mother and the people that surround in the town she settled in. But, knowing this is said about you, you feel the need to prove yourself to everybody and prove them wrong. After much thinking and confusion she takes the child in and later names Turtle because she hangs on to things. Normally, it takes any woman nine months to have a child, it took Taylor just one day after a stop in Oklahoma. Lou Ann and Taylor get along by the simple fact that both are from Kentucky and they are special to each other because both had a child, both were learning from each other, and both were helping each other get on with life. It is amazing to see caring, willing, and intelligent she was made out to be. In addition, she learns that a child worth having because it is someone to share her love with. The plan did turn be as simple as it sounded. When Europeans settle in the Native American land the quickly tried to acculturate them by taking their land, fighting them for land, and later using reservations to almost incarcerate them for the outside world because the did not want to live like the white man. Time is not an issue so they will come in late because they are in no hurry. Lou Ann is going against the dominant culture by getting married to a Mexican who in her mother’s mind they are almost like a wild animal that have many kids because it is their nature to do so.

Thoughts on the novel

Some of my feeling, responses, and attitudes are written throughout the paper. She wants to get as far as her car will take her, no matter how hard it is to continue she will.