Characters In Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees
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Characters play a major role in the novel The Bean Trees, however Taylor Greer or formally known as Missy Marietta plays the largest role in the novel. “... she entertained me with her vegetable-soup song, except that now there were people mixed in with the beans and potatoes...And me. I was the main ingredient,”(Kingsolver 246). This quote describes Taylor to the point, because she is the main ingredient to many people's lives. However, it also shows how Taylor may be somewhat self centered.Many of those people rely on her and would not be the people they are if it wasn’t for her. Taylor is a smart, brave, and courageous young lady. One of the first times the reader really gets to see Taylor’s true colors is when she decides that she is going to leave; she buys her car and tells …show more content…
Friendship and choices and consequences are the two themes that may stick out alittle more than the others. First friendship can be seen all throughout the novel of The Bean Trees; when Taylor befriends Mattie, Lou Ann, or Estevan. Without the friendships the characters made they would not have been able to adapt to the struggles in their lives. They were not only friends to them, but they were their therapists, their babysitters, their family, and their backbones. “...she entertained me with her vegetable-soup song, except that now there were people mixed in with the beans and potatoes: Dwayne Ray, Mattie, Esperanza, Lou Ann and all the rest. And me,”(Kingsolver 246).This quote shows how each character has its own struggles, its own flavor, but in the end to make the soup taste magnificent it needs all of them. All the different flavors or character. If it didn't have just one the whole moral of the story or taste of the soup would be off. The friendships that the characters build is like soup, the better the friendships are the better the soup
Characters play a major role in the novel The Bean Trees, however Taylor Greer or formally known as Missy Marietta plays the largest role in the novel. “... she entertained me with her vegetable-soup song, except that now there were people mixed in with the beans and potatoes...And me. I was the main ingredient,”(Kingsolver 246). This quote describes Taylor to the point, because she is the main ingredient to many people's lives. However, it also shows how Taylor may be somewhat self centered.Many of those people rely on her and would not be the people they are if it wasn’t for her. Taylor is a smart, brave, and courageous young lady. One of the first times the reader really gets to see Taylor’s true colors is when she decides that she is going to leave; she buys her car and tells …show more content…
Friendship and choices and consequences are the two themes that may stick out alittle more than the others. First friendship can be seen all throughout the novel of The Bean Trees; when Taylor befriends Mattie, Lou Ann, or Estevan. Without the friendships the characters made they would not have been able to adapt to the struggles in their lives. They were not only friends to them, but they were their therapists, their babysitters, their family, and their backbones. “...she entertained me with her vegetable-soup song, except that now there were people mixed in with the beans and potatoes: Dwayne Ray, Mattie, Esperanza, Lou Ann and all the rest. And me,”(Kingsolver 246).This quote shows how each character has its own struggles, its own flavor, but in the end to make the soup taste magnificent it needs all of them. All the different flavors or character. If it didn't have just one the whole moral of the story or taste of the soup would be off. The friendships that the characters build is like soup, the better the friendships are the better the soup