The Bean Trees Bird Analysis

Sylvia goes back to her grandmother's house after finding the white heron but “ does not speak after all, though the old grandmother fretfully rebukes her, and the young man’s kind, appealing eyes are looking straight in her own” (202). Sylvia struggles to choose between telling the white heron’s location to the hunter or saving a potentially important part of nature. She never made a decision before meeting with the hunter, so this must have been her first experience yet she must face decision-making as a way of character development. The hunter expects that Sylvia would tell the location of the white heron by his manipulation and Sylvia’s infatuation with him. The hunter “can make them rich with money; he has promised it, and they are poor now” (202).

Till its blood is red on the cruel bars/… When he fain would be on the bough a-swing”(8-9,11). This quote shows the author acknowledging why the caged bird is harming itself. This quote is important because the bird knows freedom is impossible and so it would bash its wing against the bars until it is free. “Caged Bird”, the poem, shows the contrast between the free bird and the caged bird. Maya Angelou depicts the free

One of my favorite American writers, Alex Haley is quoted in Carol Vanderheyden’s book, A Touch of Class, saying “Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help” (Vanderheyden, p. 60). Not only does this quote strike my funny bone and fill my head with colorful imagery of a turtle mounted on top of a white picket fence post on the Haley farm in Tennessee, it strikes me as applicable to the ethical dilemmas that face those of us who embark upon careers in helping professions such as Marriage and Family Therapy. The imagery of the turtle on the post raises some interesting questions. Why did someone put the turtle there in the first place given that turtles aren’t traditionally climbers? Did some helpful Samaritan intervene on the turtle’s behalf because the conditions on the ground put its life in jeopardy?

In two poems “Sympathy” written by Paul Laurence Dunbar and “Caged Bird” written by Maya Angelou talk about a poor bird that is trapped in a cage and wants to be free. It longs for everything that the free bird has but it cannot achieve it. In both of the poems, there is a use of comparisons between freedom and nature. It is also interpreted from the poems that the use of a song is a form of coping for the birds. Both of the birds sing for their freedom and sing through their pain.

The short story symbolizes a bird in a cage that wants to get out of it and be a free bird. The African Americans could not get out of that cage for a while so they had to spread some joy which brings in the birds singing part. A part of the joy for Maya growing through this tough era was spending great time with Mrs. Flowers. In the poem the writer states “But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage” (Angelou). This quote from the poem gives another reasoning to why the title is what it is.

In the poems “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar and “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou, both portray captive birds that sing. However in “Sympathy”, the bird pleads with god for freedom, whereas in “Caged Bird” the captive bird calls for help from a free bird. In “Sympathy” the bird knows what freedom feels like since there was a time where the bird was once free, but now is trapped. In the first stanza the use of imagery revealed how freedom felt before the bird was caged.

Multiple plots in The Bean Trees increase suspense and depth in the story. Mattie works at a tire place where she meets Taylor, and Taylor can tell that there is more than what meets the eye with Mattie, which leads to a subplot. Mattie's home is a place for immigrants, estevan and esperanza being two of those immigrants. Estevan and Esperanza's lives quickly shifted when Mattie's place became a safe house. Taylor takes them off to start lives in Oklahoma, where they end up helping take care of turtle.

However, unlike men who readily kill birds for abstract knowledge, Sylvia loves birds as living friends and literally shares her own food and saves the lives of birds. In the typical fairy tale woman growth structure, the princess of the forest, in love, accepts the prince’s views of nature and women without any conflict, leaving nature then goes to the (patriarchal) society as a passive partner. Therefore, after the emergence of a young man who wakes up ‘women’s heart’, it becomes a key issue for Sylvia’s growing attitude towards and how she treats herself as a

For example, he uses “Druids would have forsaken their oaks to worship in them” which personifies the oaks worshipping the druids which plays a role along the stage of imagery. Furthermore, Thoreau also personifies the chicken at Field’s home (“The chickens, which had also taken shelter here from the rain, stalked about the room like members of the family, too humanized.”) saying that they were like Field’s family. However, he used the chickens that personification of the chickens as a shield and sword to express that the family were like the chickens rather than the other way around to avoid sounding as rude if he has said the family acted like chickens. The pathos was heavily centered on his accidental visit to John Field's family from the falling rain when he and Field’s discussed about what they work for and what America was.

While Melanie, waits outside for Cathy, a murder of crows develops behind her. The feeling of why the birds are doing this in the first place is unsettling and puzzling. Melanie throughout the attacks tries to figure out why the birds are only attacking Bodega Bay specifically only when she arrives to town. As the attacks from the birds intensify, the feeling of uncanniness increases because the

The scientists want to be able to educate people about these snakes, so they can find out how to solve the problem. The invasive Burmese pythons, are negatively impacting the population of other animals in the Everglades. These pythons do not belong in Florida. With them around, Florida’s small mammals and birds living in the Everglades will be gone for good.

Flatwood Salamanders do not adapt very well to their environment, which is why they are endangered. One adaptation that the salamander has made would be that it uses crayfish burrows to live in. They also have adapted to use camouflage by making themselves grey and black, so that they can hide in shadows, and dark places. They have also learned to breed in isolated ponds without and predatory fish, so that they and their babies do not get eaten. Another adaptation that they have made would be that their eggs only hatch when wetlands

In a desert, you will find both a rattlesnake and cactus living in the harsh climate with very little rain. A cactus uses its thick skin of the stem with spines to keep unwanted animals from getting to the water that they store away. It uses its large underground root system to find water deep underground even when the topsoil is dry. The cactus also uses its thick stem to hold water to keep it alive.

Even the title of this book is intriguing and apposite within the content of the book. The inception of this title came from the fact that the cuckoo travels while leaving behind a significant amount of its eggs in other bird’s nest. Ideally, it uses the ignorance of other birds so that it can survive. Cuckoos have various strategies for getting their egg into a host nest. Different species use different strategies based on host defensive strategies, but most of them specialize and lay eggs that closely resemble the eggs of their chosen host.

Areas where vehicles compact the sand are too dense for turtles to nest. The biologists can often find turtle tracks that haven 't been washed away by weather and beach activity. Our video shows the parallel marks of turtle tracks. Clues are important because adult turtles try to camouflage their nests. When nests are found, the biologists enter information on field cards about the number of eggs, species, whether eggs are broken, temperature of the nest and whether the eggs are polarized.