When Loss Is A Gain Bean Tree
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Barbara Kingsolver makes her characters change and grow through negative experience. The three main character’s loses gain them maturity. Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees reveals through the characters Lou Ann, Turtle, and Taylor, that everybody needs to experience some loss before ....
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.... all, her mother, but gains a new family. Even though she is a young child with a little mind of her own, she remembers the death of her true mother, “..Passed four cemeteries on the way to the Pottawatomie Presbyterian Church of St. Michael... and each on them Turtle called out, Mama.(215)” She gains maturity by sticking with Taylor learning from each other’s strength. Growing up with a different guardian looking over her, referring her as “Mama”, realizing Tay ....
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Page count: 2 (approximately 250 words per page)
