Part 1 of Essay
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kinsolver is a book that discusses many of the problems in today's society. I found it to be over all insightful yet a little boring at time. There are many hidden meaning and symbols too many to mention so I'll look at just a few. One of the main symbols appears right at the beginning of the no ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... irony near the beginning of the story is when Taylor's car breaks down and she is given an Indian baby, she finds herself in the predicament that she was trying to avoid in Kentucky. Back in Kentucky she was proud that sing herself off from the world. In the second chapter we meet Lou Ann a soon to be mother that is having troubles with her marriage. Later she has a baby boy and her husband ends up moving out. Lou Ann has a parallel situation to Taylor, they're both on their own and have to take on the respons ....