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The Bean Trees

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The Bean Trees	label	The Bean Trees
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The Bean Trees	comment	A novel by Barbara Kingsolver about a small town girl named Taylor Greer who decides to drive her car as far as it'll take her and settle down wherever it ends up breaking. Along the way she meets a Guatemalan couple and after traveling through an Indian reserve, she gets saddled with the toddler Turtle. The rest of the novel deals with the relationships between her and the people in her new town as well as the details of this unexpected motherhood.The novel eventually spawned a sequel: Pigs in Heaven.
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The Bean Trees / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The Bean Trees / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The revelation that Turtle is an underdeveloped 3-year-old rather than the 1.5-year-old everyone assumed her to be occurs a little more than halfway through the novel, and comes as a surprise to both the characters and the reader. Unless, of course, the reader read the summary on the back cover, which describes Turtle as a 3-year-old.
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The Bean Trees / int_1b36b313	type	Mandatory Motherhood
The Bean Trees / int_1b36b313	comment	Mandatory Motherhood: Taylor escapes from her small town to avoid becoming pregnant....and then has a child left in her car.
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The Bean Trees / int_1f137e42	type	Artificial Limbs
The Bean Trees / int_1f137e42	comment	Artificial Limbs: Lou Ann's husband got a replacement foot after an accident. He then proceeds to wangst about it.
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The Bean Trees / int_237569e4	type	Ironic Hell
The Bean Trees / int_237569e4	comment	Ironic Hell: Estevan describes a hell where there's a pot of delicious bubbling stew and everyone is equipped with spoons too long to feed themselves with. They could all eat if they helped each other, but being the sort of people who deserve hell, they never will.
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The Bean Trees / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Bean Trees / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Both Lou Ann and Taylor have them: Lou Ann's is dead, and Taylor's was never there in the first place.
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The Bean Trees / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
The Bean Trees / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl
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The Bean Trees / int_4548bae	type	Teen Pregnancy
The Bean Trees / int_4548bae	comment	Teen Pregnancy: The fate of most of the girls in Taylor's hometown. Taylor escapes this, only to get another person's toddler dumped onto her lap as soon as she leaves her hometown.
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The Bean Trees / int_5320ff11	type	This Is My Name on Foreign
The Bean Trees / int_5320ff11	comment	This Is My Name on Foreign: Estevan and Esperanza introducing themselves as "Steven" and "Hope" to potentially avoid prejudice.
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The Bean Trees / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
The Bean Trees / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Taylor is quite nervous around tires after seeing a man thrown into the air by an exploding tractor tire as a child. Naturally, the only place she can find a job is Jesus Is Lord Used Tires.
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The Bean Trees / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Bean Trees / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Turtle's. When your mother is desperate enough to leave you in a car with a stranger, you know it's bad.
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The Bean Trees / int_c6ed4005	type	Candy Striper
The Bean Trees / int_c6ed4005	comment	Candy Striper: Taylor mentions that many of the girls in her Kentucky hometown became Candy Stripers in high school as an extracurricular activity.
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The Bean Trees / int_f12d9d83	type	Promotion to Parent
The Bean Trees / int_f12d9d83	comment	Promotion to Parent: Taylor tries to give Turtle off to her other friends, but eventually admits that she's decided to raise her.
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The Bean Trees / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
The Bean Trees / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: Taylor drives an old junker, and her plan is to drive it until it breaks down.
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