Bean Trees

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Have you ever been put into I situation in which you can stay
and never
prosper or leave, with nothing but mere material
possessions? This is the
dilemma that is brought forth to Marietta (Taylor) in the
novel The Bean
Trees by Barbara Kingsolver. Marietta grew up in Pitman, a
small rural town
in Kentucky. A town in which families "had kids just about
as fast as they
could fall down the well and drown" needless to say not a
town where many
people would want to live. Marietta was one of these people
not wanting to
be one of the families mentioned above. So she decided to
leave, sounds
like a simple solution, but the trials and tribulations along the
way created
an opportunity for education that far exceeds anything that
can be learned in
school. Not what is the square root of sixty-four but
problems that can cause
a person to think that they are not capable of overcoming
the roadblocks of
life. Strength in a time of suffering is a vital part of surviving
through
out the many rough times of life. The suffering is a lot easier
to deal with
when you have people around you that can relate to your
troubles and help
teach you how to overcome them.

Money, money is a problem that many people can relate to.
Everybody has
had those times where they need every penny that they have,
except for those
luckily enough to be born into money. Marietta, now
officially known, as
Taylor had to suffer threw the dilemma of being broke, flat
out broke. There
is no way to educate yourself into having money, but you
can learn how to
deal with the cards you are dealt. That is what Taylor does,
" 'wash your
windows lady…. dollar for the whole car.' 'I got no
windows….. lucky me,
because I got no dollar either.'" Taylor is broke, beyond
broke not even
with a dollar to her name she strives to complete her destiny.
She wants to
get as far as her car will take her, no matter how hard it is to
continue she
will. Taylor has learned a lesson that most people have not
nor ever will
learn. She has learned that money isn't everything to be
happy and content
pushes money and material objects down to third or even
fourth place. Well
it is safe to say that Taylor is struggling but at least she only
has to
provide for herself.

In what takes any other woman nine months to do, Taylor
has one day. She
had an instant birth, her role in life took a hundred and eighty
degree turn,
she is no longer the s

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