The Bean Trees

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ean” is that the beans are also working to survive and live off of something that needs them or wants them to live. Turtle wants to live off of Taylor because she is the one who took time to love her and teach her a new life.
Taylor is so happy that Turtle starts talking. She feels like she has accomplished something with her and she is finally feeling a sense of relief. Taylor finally gets to declare Turtle her own daughter and it is the best thing that happened to both of them. Taylor tells Turtle, “That

means you’re my kid, and I’m your mother, and nobody can say it isn’t so” (Kingsolver 232). They have someone they both love and care about and someone to keep the growing and living a full life. In a somewhat similar situation, Kingsolver presents Estevan and Esperanza, two imigrants from Guatamala. They have had their only child taken from them and this brings in the situation of loss and love.
Estevan and Esperanza are struggling to survive in a country far different from their own. They have no choice but to run away from all their fears. If they would have stayed in Guatemala they would not be alive. “In Guatemala City the police use electricity for interrogation. They disconnect the receiver wire and tape the two ends to your body. To sensitive parts” (Kingsolver 134). They were tortured in the city and they had to move somewhere to get away fro...