The Bean Trees Book Report

She realizes that her favorite local pool is closing down so colored people can’t swim with the whites. Glory becomes an activist herself and writes a letter to the newspaper lining which makes her preacher father proud. Therefore, the theme of this book is to treat everyone equally, such as when Glory’s friend Frankie from Ohio drinks out of the “colored fountain”. Also, when Glory’s sisters boyfriend that he was arrested for sitting with a “colored friend” at the white table. Finally, when Glory’s African- American maid helped her the most when it comes to maturing.

She has the ability to live the way she has always wanted to, yet Lily turns down the offer. It poses the question of why she did so. It could be interpreted that Lily wants to stay independent in every sense because in the past when she has relied on others, such as Gus Trenor or Bertha Dorset, she experiences betrayal. Again supporting that Lily believes she will be happiest when she only has to depend on

There she earned multiple degrees in biology. Barbara kickstarted her career as a freelance writer and later became a novelist. Kingsolver’s first novel, The Bean Trees, was published in 1988 and was written while battling insomnia. Her other works include Animal Dreams, Pigs in Heaven, and Holding the Line (Carchial). The Bean Trees is about Taylor Greer, a girl who escapes small town life by packing her things and driving until she runs out of gas.

In the novel, The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver, symbolic actions taken by the characters illustrates how anyone could be a person’s family through emotional support through hardships and life even if they are not related. Taylor ends up with Turtle and they form a family together, and when they move in with Lou Ann and her son, their family grows even bigger and stronger together. Even though Taylor and Lou Ann are no where near related, they still think of each other as family. Lou Ann talks about how Taylor and Turtle is her family and said, “I meant you all. Mainly I guess because we’ve been through hell and high water together” (309).

Lenny and Rachel do their best to help Marc save his daughter. Unfortunately neither friend is very honest with Marc. Throughout the book, his friends lie to him for different reasons, sometimes to protect themselves and sometimes to protect Marc. As sad as it is to say, when you are in a life or death situation you can not trust anyone even your best friend. After he learns of his wife’s murder and his daughter’s kidnapping Marc turns to his ex-girlfriend a former FBI agent for help.

Lydia’s family left Baldwin in 1943 after the untimely death of her mother, Raven. Raven may have died by suicide or it may have been something more sinister. After Raven’s death, Lydia received letters from her grandmother, Charlotte, telling her about a family secret and a forbidden love affair from 1912 set against the building of the “last of the handmade dams,” the Ashokan Reservoir in upstate NY. Built to supply a growing NYC with drinking water. Now in 1968, the girls discover the tin box and read the letters.

The family faced no shame by a runaway daughter as long as she allowed her lover to have complete control. Usually a girl would have the aid of her community to bring her to a new male-dominate household and away from her father’s abuse (2003: 219). This tradition followed Candy to an extent. Alone on the streets Candy was raped by the street gang of her future husband’s. Instead of finding safety, she was a victim of misogyny.

As Oranges Are not the Only Fruit ends with mother-daughter reconciliation, Sharp Objects starts with the daughter’s homecoming. Camille, the narrator of the whole story, is a young and independent reporter who is sent back to her hometown, Wind Gap, to investigate the murder of a little girl and a disappeared child. Instead of being represented as the triumphant return of the heroine, who comes back home enriched by a new and deeper knowledge about herself and the world, Camille’s return determines the main character’s regression, since she has to face the painful memories of her troubled past, the haunting absence of her dead sister Marian, and the oppressive presence of her mother Adora. The first part of this section examines Adora’s representation as a phallic mother, as opposed to the traditional representation of women’s passivity and to the weak male characters represented in the novel. The second part analyses the reasons for the woman’s differently damaging attitudes towards her daughters.

As it progresses, it follows another character, Clement Musgrove to his home where he stays with his second wife Salome and Daughter Rosamond. After Rosamond was kidnapped by the robber Jamie Lockhart, they both fall in love with each other. Despite all the misunderstandings and incidents in the story, Welty’s story ends up with a happy marriage between Rosamond and Jamie and the evil Salome is destroyed. Welty presents evil in the family through the character of Salome, Rosamond’s step mother. The story takes place in the Southern United States where a beautiful merchant’s daughter is stolen by a thief who is the bridegroom in the story.

Yet, she feels devoid and miserable with her future. As the plot develops, Esther reveals her relationship with Buddy Willard, whom is seen as a “perfect” marriage partner in society’s view. Yet, when Buddy concedes his date with Joan and impurity, she was enraged by the seemingly innocent look of Billy. Thereafter, it is revealed that Billy has suffered from tuberculosis. During Esther’s visit to the sanitarium, Billy proposes to her but she turns it down

The book I am responding to is called The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth. The book is set in eastern Montana, beginning in 1989. It follows the story of a young girl, Cameron Post. She kisses her best friend, Irene, and then she’s told her parents have died in a car crash. Cameron’s Aunt Ruth becomes her guardian and decides they need something new.

Hester Prynne goes against her society 's look on gender. When she has Pearl which is another man 's daughter. Hester keeps her daughter even though it went against what God said back in that time but she gave her daughter everything she needed. She never gave up on herself she kept on giving everything she had so she wouldn 't cave into what people thought. Her and Dimmsdale found something special in each other and went on to move to England together with Pearl.