Turtle and Taylor remain in Oklahoma City while the adoption paperwork clears, and spend time at the library. They learn about the wisteria vines. They do not grow from barren soil; the soil beneath them is fertilized by rhizobia, microscopic bugs with which the wisteria have a symbiotic relationship. Taylor compares the wisteria and rhizobia to the various relationships in the novel.
Taylor calls Lou Ann, who tells her that she is now dating a man from Red Hot Mama’s, Cameron John, and she recalls how Taylor became upset when they were acting like a family. Lou Ann insists that they are in fact a family, and Taylor agrees. Taylor and Turtle head back to Tucson as a legally established family BOOK REVIEW Facing new challenges, altering a lifestyle, and getting a whole new perspective of life is what Taylor learns to do in The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver. This book is about a young woman who alters her lifestyle, and heads out on the road facing all challenges that she comes upon. The Bean Trees is a very good example of how a person’s life can be altered forever by one decision. This book has a very wide range of characters from a schizophrenic cat to a woman who hides Indian fugitives in her used tire store.
The Bean Trees also displays many different issues in today’s society. One of the issues is teen pregnancy. One woman, for example, gets pregnant when she was 14, and now works in a burger store, and leaves her child at the mall drop-off. Another issue, child abuse, is shown when Taylor is given an abused Indian child at a diner and has to struggle to get custody of her.
The Essay on Foster children and family resilience
Foster children refer to minors or young people who have been removed from their custodial adults or birth parents by governmental authority. These children are placed under the care of another family either through voluntary placement by a parent of the child or by the relevant governmental authority if the birth parent has failed to provide for the child. Family resilience on the other hand, is ...
I think that this book is a very good choice for woman of all ages, or a mature male. So, if your looking for a book with many different perspectives of life, women’s humor, and a look at the real world; this is the book for you.
