Part one of term paper
Barbara Kingsolver makes her characters change and grow through negative experience. The three main character’s loses gain them maturity. Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees reveals through the characters Lou Ann, Turtle, and Taylor, that everybody needs to experience some loss before they can mature. When Lou Ann loses Angel sh ...

Part two of term paper
... Angel’s history. Now I’m seeing this guy from Red Hot Mama’s by the name of Cameron John. Can you believe it?”(p.179). She has now conquered over her situation and moves on to a new independent life. Turtle, Taylor’s step daughter, experiences a hurtful, meaningful loss of them all, her mother, but gains a new family. Even though she is a young child with a little mind of her own, she remembers the death of her true mother, “..Passed four cemeteries on the way ...