Analysis Of The Bean Trees By Barbara Kingsolver

One's voyage to self-satisfaction and comprehension cannot achieve all alone. Dependably there must have different impacts to aid one little seed to develop and flourish. Throughout The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver depicts the setting in order to provide insight into Taylor Greer, a protagonist who struggles with discovering her true identity, through her journey to self-satisfaction. Taylor’s experience in Pittman, Kentucky, the trip to Tucson, Arizona and last but not least Cherokee Nation helps discover her true identity. Firstly, Kingsolver uses Taylor’s hometown state of Pittman, Kentucky to show the setting of how Taylor’s emotions and feelings of entrapment and desperation to get away reflect on her identity. In the beginning of the

As the novel progresses, Taylor begins to mature and take on the motherhood of Turtle’s life, the day she first met in Oklahoma. Kingsolver uses motherhood to proclaim Taylor’s devotion to Turtle; just the same way Taylor’s mother supported her back in Kentucky. In Arizona, “the clouds were pink and flat and hilarious looking like the hippo ballerinas in a Disney Movie” (Kingsolver 35). Taylor had never seen anything like this back in Pittman Kentucky. The whole scene looked unreal to Taylor. It shows Taylor resists accepting Arizona, where she and Turtle will start a new life here. By the time Taylor “were in sight of Tucson it became clear what those goofy pink clouds had been full of hail… the sun came out even before the hail stopped. There was a rainbow over the mountains behind the city.” (Kingsolver 36). Although Taylor has mix emotion in Tucson, Arizona, Kingsolver reflect setting, as a mode of characterization to provide insight into Taylor’s life in Arizona will have better days to come for