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The process of gaining independence is an important part of who a person is and how they overcome issues they come across in their lifetimes. Several characters from the book, The Bean Trees, are either independent from the beginning of the story or develop to become independent. Due to these characters strong, self-supporting personalities, they can solve the issues they come across in a self-sufficient manner without help from others. These characters are never stuck relying on others for help or forced to wait for others. In the book The Bean Trees, several characters personify independence throughout the work, which supports the idea independent people can self-sufficiently overcome obstacles they come across.

The book What night Brings brings us a lot of relatable ongoing conflicts. Either personal conflicts like marcis wish (“I have to change into a boy”) #9. My point is that it's those same interactions, conflicts that shape our beloved characters, that give them certain traits. Mărci the narrator tells a deep, very real ,relatable, traumatizing in a way or two, story but it still sometimes makes us laugh, whether she is talking about Miss Beauchamp #67 (“she looked like she could be on The bob hope Christmas special”) #135 (“if the church is queer, then God must be queer”). Marci’s personality gets 9/10 in my book. Charisma to me the word just instantly makes me think of the Corin character and love what she brings to the table, not only that but she’s a survivor she takes the beatings twice as marci does but doesn't break #12 (“I watched my dad hit Corin the same way he hit me but

Indirect Characterization: This quote shows the character’s perseverance and uniqueness while also foreshadowing. It shows the relationship between Taylor and her mother and the difference of Taylor and her environment/ society

Major epiphanies are found in “The Bean Trees.” The characters, Taylor and Lou Ann, both have a major epiphany.

It has often been said that once you spend enough time with someone and create a strong bond with them, you end up becoming very close and considering them family. What has also been said is that we find friendships when we need it most. As important as family is in real life, it is often shown that in literature, authors use this concept to offer a clear understanding on how close an individual can get to someone within months. Barbara Kingsolver demonstrates the importance of family through Taylor in her novel The Bean Trees, as she creates strong relationships on her way through life.

In The Bean Tree, Taylor grows as a person through the choices she makes.(how do these things help Taylor grow as a person) Taylor is talking about how she doesn't want to be like anyone else in her town and wants to make her own path."I stayed in school. I was not the smartest or even particularly outstanding but I was there and staying out of trouble and I intended to finish. This is not to say that I was unfamiliar with the back seat of a Chevrolet. I knew the scenery of Greenup Road, which we called Steam-It-Up Road, and I knew what a pecker looked like, and none of these sights had so far inspired me to get hogtied to a future as a tobacco farmer's wife. Mama always said barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew." (Kingsolver, ch.1)

In Barbara Kingsolver’s novel The Bean Trees, Taylor represents a bildungsroman character. A bildungsroman story is a coming of age story that consists of four stages. In the first stage of a bildungsroman character’s journey, she experiences a loss or painful experience that drives her to start a new life. The character goes through a baptismal rite in the second stage, which always involves water. The character endures many difficult trials in the third stage, but ends up gaining a new insight about life in the fourth stage. Taylor’s journey in the Bean Trees has all four of these stages, making her a bildungsroman character. Although Taylor’s desire for independence begins her journey, she eventually realizes people need a network

Taylor has faced many obstacles as she starts her new life and leaves behind some parts of her old life. Becoming a mother so quickly and helping Estevan and

Cole is the main character in Touching Spirit Bear. He is an “innocent-looking baby-faced fifteen-year-old from Minneapolis ” (5) Cole has a temper and  he really doesn't care about anyone but himself. He blames everyone but himself Like when he blamed Peter Driscal for telling on him, but Cole was bragging about it. (7) Cole is a very selfish kid and is very stubborn. Cole thought to himself, “Circle justice was a bunch of bull.” (6)

Every story has likable characters in order to make things more interesting. For instance Alby expresses the leader role. He is always helping out and tries to take charge. For readers who can relate, it makes him that much more likable. Likable characters tend to be ones you can relate with or ones you look up too. Alby has been in the this “new world” the longest; three years. Alby says everyone there is terrified. “If you aint scared,” Alby said, “you aint human. Act any different and I’d throw you off the Cliff because it’d mean you’re a psycho”(The Maze Runner). This quote is important because they are all scared, even if they won’t admit it. Thomas too as a likable character. His curiosity and concerns make him likable. He was the newest member to the new world and had the most interest. His fearful mindset makes him likable when he goes into the maze to save Alby. Thomas was also determined to find a way out, and that is what people enjoy. A person who has a set goal and puts their life in risk in order to accomplish

Taylor comes from a nontraditional family. She was raised by her mother, who worked long hours as a housekeeper to support Taylor and herself. Her father, Foster Greer, left her mother when he found out that her mother was pregnant. Her mother doesn 't mind that Foster left; in fact, she often tells Taylor that "trading Foster for [you] was the best deal this side of the Jackson Purchase." As Taylor matures and is exposed to horrible things that fathers can say and do to children, she feels quite lucky to have grown up without a father. The resiliency of Taylor 's mother and her commitment to Taylor, as well as her indifferent attitude toward men, represent Kingsolver 's feminist

“The Poverty line doesn't measure Poverty, it measures extreme Poverty," (Shapiro Marcy). Barbra Kingsolver’s book The Bean Trees, Focusses on the social justice issue Poverty. The Main character Taylor Leaves Kentucky, to escape poverty, she was determined to be different from all others who dropped out of school and had children. She dreamt of being different and achieving something with her life. In the The Bean Trees, Barbra Kingsolver challenges the idea that people in poverty are lazy and never work. Poverty is a fight that some have to fight every day, it is not by choice that some people struggle.

This is the beginning of my essay. “Taken together, these have brought me great joy, through with that joy, I have also found the deepest sorrow”(Kyle pg.1). Taya was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1974. She spent her childhood in small-town, suburbs. She was trained to be a lawyer. Taya dad run a small business and her mom was a teacher by trade. And her older sister, Ashley. Marian, Taya father. Marian mother died because of illness. Marian been getting re married and been getting divorce a lot.

From Georgia to the Belgian Congo, a white southern missionary family during the late 1950’s moved to Africa with the hopes of exposing the native people to the Christian way of life. Throughout the novel, the Price family is met with many obstacles while trying to learn this new culture in which they were surrounded. Many of the obstacles were directly due to their ignorance of the country. A character in the novel, Leah Price, was faced with the challenge of following her father’s will but also assimilating to the people of Congo. Leah was the older twin, and a young, free-spirited, passionate girl who once worshipped her father and believed in his philosophy. However, throughout the novel because of her growing interest in discovering more

Melina Marchetta uses a plethora of themes within ‘on the Jellicoe Road’ to establish the major characters. The themes of the text all revolve around self-discovery and identity, thus they link together to give readers an in depth understanding of the characters world. Ultimately, themes have the ability to create exceedingly complex characters, and Marchetta demonstrates this within the novel.