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The Bean Tree’s
Barbara Kingsolver writes as both a human rights activist as well as a storyteller, her actual works are forms are forms of political activism. ... The critically acclaimed Bean Tree’s touches base on a wide variety of topics including but not limited to; gender issues, social and political injustices, and human interdependence, all bound up within an intriguing story of a girl finding her self in Tucson, Arizona. ...
A great deal of thematic importance revolves around the symbolization of bean, bean trees as well as birds. ... “Bean”, Turtle’s first word symbolizes the promise that a seed can contain. ... The “bean trees”, Turtles name for wisteria vine that grows in Dog Doo Park parallel the human condition. ... Like the “bean trees” people can only survive with a network of love and support.
Kingsolver portrayal of Taylor’s life throughout the Bean Trees exhibit’s a wide variety of Kingsolvers own personal views. ... To combat the insomnia she began to write The Bean Trees in her closet. ... I want an English professor to understand the symbolism while at the same time I want the people I grew up with—who may not often read anything but the Sears catalogue—read my book”
The bean Trees was followed by an oral history of a mine strike, Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine of 1983 (ILR/Cornell University Press,1983,1996) a story collection, Homeland and Other Stories (1989); the novels Animal Dreams (1990), and Pigs in Heaven (1993); collected poems in Another America: Otra America (Seal Press 1992 & 1998); and the best-selling High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now and Never (1995).
Approximate Word count = 1525
Approximate Pages = 6.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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