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The Bean Trees: Symbols And Hidden Meanings - Online Term Paper

The Bean Trees: Symbols And Hidden Meanings

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kinsolver is a book that discusses many of the
problems in today's society. I found it to be over all insightful yet a
little boring at time. There are many hidden meaning and symbols too many
to mention so I'll look at just a few.
One of the main symbols appears right at the beginning of the novel. The
symbol is the tires and how Missy (later named Taylor) fears them. The
tires come up several times in the story and so does Taylor's fear of them.
This fear originated from the accident with a tractor tire that Taylor
viewed as a child. Her fear leads to an irony later in the story when
Taylor is asked by Mattie, a friend of hers, to work at a tire shop. This
is ...

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was proud that she made it through high school without becoming
pregnant and having to take on that responsibility. When she leaves her
home town she also wants to leave it all behind. It's is symbolized by her
changing her name and leaving without second thoughts.

I found it interesting that Kingsolver decided to make Taylor one eighth
Indian and have the baby full Indian. This might have been done to try and
make it seem like there was a type of natural connection between them to
begin with. "I found my head rights, Mama. They're coming with me." The
name that the baby was giving also seemed to have meaning. Taylor says she
was called Turtle because of her tight grip, but she also has another
characteristic of a turtle. When a Turtle feels threatened in the wild it
will hide in it's shell and shut itself off from the world. Turtle, the
child, dose the same thing when she is first found and also when she is
attacked by the stranger. She goes into a daze mentally shutting ...

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Added: 5/21/2004 03:02:09 AM
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