Kingsolver uses Bees in the novel Pigs In Heavens as a symbol of sweetness and love. In the sense that bees collect naturally sweet nectar in which they then create sweet honey. Honey is so admissible in the scent of the bears that they can smell the sweet fragrance up to two miles away. Kingsolver establishes a theme of love within Cash and Alice. Alice questions the sweetness of Cash towards her because they had never met. She eventually reasons that “If someone is sweet on you without ever having met you, she reasons, you owe him that much”.(Kingsolver, pg 260) Basically Alice reasons that she must go on this one ride with Cash, because Cash sees Alice as this beauty without having actually meeting her. She goes on this date picking out berries and she soon realizes that she actually enjoys …show more content…
“I miss you,Jax. Real bad. I get this aching in my throat sometimes and I am not sure if you are real or not. It's been so long since I’ve seen you”. (Kingsolver, pg 252). Taylor calls Jax informing that she misses him but she left her relationship with Jax up in the air, telling him he could see other people. Even though he had an affair with Gundi, she is willing to forgive him. Maybe because she has no one. Alice left her to figure out a way to solve Taylor’s problem, so she can keep Taylor. She doesn't know her number and all Jax can say is kissing her navel. He doesn't know what to say to heal her anxiety. His affair with Gundi resulted from Taylor's indecisiveness. Living on her own has led Taylor to feel unconfident and alienated. She keeps mentioning her lack of a support net, even suggesting that Turtle deserves more than Taylor has given her. Taylor having no support net is exactly the opposite of what the Cherokee community is about. They are all about working together to achieving a common goal like the bees in getting nectar and tur ning it into honey. Taylor having no support net is really detrimental in dwindling Taylor’s