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The Bean Trees Review, March 11, 2004
A Kid's Review
This review is from: Barbara Kingsolver's "The Bean Trees": A Study Guide from Gale's "Novels for Students" (Volume 05, Chapter 2) (Digital)
The Bean Trees is a very enjoyable book. It all starts when a woman wants to move someplace else other than where she grew up in Kentucky. This book has a few reasons why I enjoyed it. I also would not recommend this book to some people.
This was a very good book. It was about a women who moved from Kentucky. She really didnt care where she ended up. She was willing to live anywhere. She changed her name from Marietta to Taylor. She was moving, but she had no idea where she would end up. On her journey an Indian women handed her a small child and told her to take it. She didn't know what to do and she took it. She didn't know anything about this child though. She decided to name her Turtle because of the ways she gripped onto everything. Taylor ended up living in Tucson, Arizona. She barely had any money with her. She didn't know where she was going to live. In the newspaper she found an add with someone looking for a roommate. She ended up living with a girl named Lou Ann. She had a small child that was just born. Her husband left her though. Taylor ended up working at a tire shop with a woman named Mattie, who helped her out when she first came to Tucson. Throughout the book Taylor meets new people and finds out more exciting things.
At first this book seemed very dull to me and I didn't think that this book was going anywhere. Then as I kept reading, this book became more enjoyable. It came to be that I enjoyed this book a lot. I did because it had a lot of exciting and good moments in this book. Such as, when Taylor finally found a place to stay, when she got a job with Mattie, and when she thinks she has figured out "Turtle's" real name. I also liked it because of the character Taylor. She never gave up to go back to her home town in Kentucky. She kept going even though she didn't have a job at first, a place to live in, or even a car that had windows. She also had a child with her. She took care of herself and Turtle with out many complaints.
I do not recommend this book to someone in elementary school. There is a lot of swearing and inappropriate language for someone who is in elementary school. I recommend to this book to someone who likes a little bit of adventure. This book is about how a woman becomes closer and closer to a child that was given to her by a stranger.
In conclusion, I really enjoyed this book a lot. I recommend on giving this book a chance. You might like it. The women in this book is very willing and doesn't give up. As the book goes on Taylor comes to love Turtle more and more. I do not recommend on someone in elementary reading this book though.
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