Part one of term paper
? The Bean Trees is a novel about a girl coming of age, growing up, and struggling to make a life for herself. She has to deal with surviving alone for the first time, and with being responsible for someone else’s life. She learns to overcome her fear of putting air in a tire and she learns about love. She attains a daughter, and takes car ...

Part two of term paper
... Most of the kids from Taylor’s school ended up starting families before they learned how to drive. Taylor chose to create her future, but when she ends up in Arizona she has a beat up car, and an unexpected child. She has not created the future she was aiming for. She is totally thrown off from her utopian plan, and realizes that she is forced to face reality: she must deal with motherhood, being of Native American decent, coming across the unexpected, and learning about the real world sh ...