Realities of Motherhood: Levels of Love and Fear in "The Bean Trees" It has been said that he who fears not gives advantage to danger. ... In Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees, main character Taylor obtains a completely unanticipated child upon her arrival in Tucson, Arizona after rigorously avoiding motherhood in her hometown of Pittman, Kentucky for several years. ... Due to her history of abuse and the willingness of her original guardian to give her away to a complete stranger, it is likely that Turtle would be dead without Taylor. ... "The Bean Trees" is an ins...

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So the hunter offers to give Sylvia ten dollars to help him find the heron. ... Secondly, the story shows the symbol the pine tree. The pine tree is tall and at the top is the highest place Sylvia has ever been. ... She turns back and sees towns and trees, which are her past, but now she looks toward the ocean, her future. ... Sylvia is tempted to give away the heron's hiding place to the hunting man who she has grown affectionate towards. ...

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Every time Janie meets a new man, she is automatically comparing him to the pear tree. ... Janie is looking for a pear tree; not a stump in the woods. ... She decides to leave and see if Joe could be the pear tree lover that she wishes for. ... " It must have been the way Joe spoke out without giving her a chance to say anything one way or another that took the bloom off of things" (pg 43.) ... Tea Cake buried himself inside of Janie just as the pear tree had done so many years before. ...

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And it would have a nest perhaps in the top of a high tree, made of sticks, something like a hawk's nest" (54). ... Until she is face to face with this stranger after discovering where the great bird's nest is she unexpectedly becomes quiet: "she cannot tell the heron's secret and give its life away" (58). ... When she decides to make the difficult decision on climbing from the oak tree to the old pine tree it is nature who helps her: "the old pine tree must have loved its new dependent" (57). ... The old pine tree symbolizes power making Sylvia feel pow...

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"I am offering this poem to you/since I have nothing else to give/Keep it like a warm coat/when winter comes to cover you" (1-4). ... "and in the corner of you drawer/tucked away like a cabin or hogan/in dense trees, come knocking/ and I will answer, give you directions'" (17-20). ... The surprised reader might be surprised from reading this because in the "dense trees" there is a "cabin or hogan" where he will "come knocking". Which is, actually quite subtle and not so surprising, because Jimmy Santiago Baca showing his affection is writing that he will be there for that person, and when...

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The story of Jane's life gives off a very dramatic and also a heart warming appeal near the end of the story's resolution. ... While Jane sat in the room, she thought about her previous life before Gateshead and about her parents and realized that she could not give up hope and never quit trying. ... Another change that occurred in Jane's life happened when Rochester proposed to her out in the garden and the tree suddenly got struck by lightning. ... When the tree splits during the proposal Jane believes that it was a sign of fate and feels that her and Rochester weren't...

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Milton does not give Adam and Eve a child-like innocence, so they are not free from "imperfections" that religion says only came after they ate from the forbidden Tree of Knowledge. ... Even after Eve dreams about eating from the tree he reassures her that she is good and the dream does not make her bad. ... Immediately after Eve ate from the forbidden tree she no longer felt it was okay for her to be inferior and instead wanted to be Adam's equal. ... "O Eve, in evil hour thou didst give eare/ To that false Worm, of whomsoever taught/ To counterfet Mans voice, true in our Fall"...

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He sees her determination, and despite his difficulties in reading, he never gives up on assisting Liesel on her journey in reading. ... These are needed to rejuvenate his energy, but most of all it gives him the feeling someone truly cares for him. ... One such word shaker was a small, skinny girlhe immediately ordered the tree to be cut down AT THAT moment, the word shaker twisted free. ... She waited for the tree to fall. But the tree would not move (446, 447). ...

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The negative interpretation of falling can be associated with falling off something and hurting oneself or something as radical as "To give in to temptation; sin." ... In the words of Mother Teresa, "Love is but a fruit on a tree, sweet and within the grasp of every hand." ...

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The best person to ask is Shawn McDaniel, if he could speak, if he could write, or even if he could give some sort of sign that he understands a thing that is said to him. ... See, Shawn didn't fall out a tree, or get hit by a car. ...

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Janie would sit in the back yard underneath the peach tree and it's where she spent her younger years. ... This occasion, and the peach tree as a whole, is a symbolization of Janie's idealized views of nature. ... He walked over her and felt the need to give her demands. ... She began to give up on Logan and their unhappy marriage. ... Although she gives up on the marriage, she doesn't give up on her pursuit of love. ...

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From the colorful description of his looks, Edgar does indeed represent a pleasant picture; he is painted to be a soft and gentle man, giving the impression that he is an exceptionally good soul worthy of love. ... Then, after learning about Catherine's death, he "dashed his head against the knotted trunk [and] observed splashes of blood about the bark of the tree" (169). ... Catherine describes her love for Edgar as "the foliage in the woods; time will change it... as winter changes the trees" (82). ... They maintain a house, spend time together reading and conversing, and give birt...

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In the beginning the only being that existed in the world was a bear named Onyx and there was no earth, no sky, no trees, no other animals or mortals, just Onyx and an abyss of darkness. ... And the rest floated down to form the earth, trees, sea, and mountains. ... Angelique you must entrust them with happiness, health, and prosperity and you, Erectorious, must make the woman fertile so she can give birth to more humans. ... Amorous and Penelope decided to plot against their son Damien by giving him a sacred fruit that would make his body parts fall off and his bones weak and brittle. ...

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The poem doesn't really give too much information referring that the poem isn't very detailed and lengthy. ... The poem seems to take place in the late autumn season in the cold where leaves begin to fall from trees. ... Within the first quatrain, he compares himself to the trees that are losing leaves in the cold. ... The quote "that time of year" trees losing their leaves, and the fire and the ashes all relate to him getting old while demonstrating an emotional feeling of it all. ...

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Apollo is lusting for Daphne's love, and Apollo beset Daphne for marriage, but in return she turns into a tree to sacrifice her virginity. She becomes a Laurel tree as this was her only way of escaping from marrying Apollo. ... He winds up gored by another wild boar and his blood gives birth to a flower, the delicate and beautiful anemone. ...

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Love can also be seen as a tree. Specifically, the different parts of the tree of love can be identified like the branches are considered pre-eternity, and the roots represent eternity. ... I would suggest this article to someone because it gives very good insight into another way of looking at love. ...

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Although Lina warns Florens that she is "one leaf on his tree," Florens insists that she is "his tree" (Morrison 71). ... Finally as the story progresses, the characters experience betrayal, which gives them lasting effects and changes them both physically and emotionally....

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He, who was still a boy as regards love and was inclined to plunge to the depths of it blindly and insatiably, was taught by her that love cannot have pleasure without giving it, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every single part of the body has its secret which can give pleasure to one who can understand." (53-54) Once he has discovered love, he decides that it isn't the right path for him then leaves. ... "He had considered himself rich and happy when the boy had come to him, but as time passed and the boy remained unfriendly and sulky, when he proved arr...

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Catherine showed she liked being in control from early on and Heathcliff was able to give Catherine this sense of supremacy. ... In every cloud, in every tree - filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! ... Through the entire novel Heathcliffe and Catherine do not share love with each other, but an obsession with each other, which gives evidence that Catherine is correct. ...

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Henrik Ibsen wrote A Doll's House, a dramatic play, in 1879.The play takes place in a Norwegian town. The Helmers are a middle-class family. Torvald and Nora have been married for eight years and have three children. Nora and Torvald appear to have everything they need, but in reality their marriage...

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That is, until his spiritual transformation under a tree one evening. ... He is an active member of the church, serves as a positive role-model for John, and gives his free time to help clean up the church's sanctuary. ... Or the struggle of John, who manages to separate his father from religion, allowing him to develop a personal relationship with God without feeling that he is giving in to his hated father. ...

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As she secretly listened, she found that hearing Echo did not give much information on whom Zeus had fallen in love with. ... So she called back, and he then told her to come out behind the trees. ... Apollo grieved, "If I could give my life for yours, or die with you." ...

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Rosalind gives him a chain to wear around his neck. ... The only reason he gives is that she is her father's daughter and therefore a traitor. ... Oliver is upset, but does nothing about it.In scene 2 Orlando hangs on the forest trees poems he writes for Rosalind. ... Rosalind enters reading a poem she found about herself on a tree. ... Celia, too, enters bearing a poem from a tree and the girls discuss who could have put it there. ...

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Nature is important to people's lives as it gives relief and hope to those who are living in a strict Puritan environment. Nature is wild and free; it gives prisoners hope that one day they might be be free too. "A clump of scrubby trees, such as alone grew on the peninsula, did not so much conceal the cottage from view, as seem to denote that here was some object which would fain have been, or at least ought to be, concealed" (73). ... Nature symbolizes Hester's internal conflict, it gives a deeper understanding of what is occurring in the plot. ... In addition, nature no...

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He is referred to as the enemy, which gives the reader a glimpse into the distrust of men the writer wants to project in this story. ... This ultimately signifies her own life/freedom, which she would have to give up if she were to become involved with the stranger which would begin by relaying the bird"s secret. In those times women were overshadowed by men and expected to be servants and tend to their man giving up any hope of a life of their own. ... Seeing it experience the freedom that she wanted for herself she realized what she had to do, watching from her perch on the old pine tree. .....

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