How Does Motherhood Affect a Child? How does motherhood affect a child? There is a tremendous range of different ways to raise a child. Some say, having two parents is better than a single parent. Some say a single parent can do a fine job of raising their child. But, somehow a parent or both parents influence the way their child thinks, or accomplish in life. In The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, she writes about how Taylor is influenced by different people to carry out decisions about Turtle and the way she looks in life. Taylor’s mother is a single mom, who took care of Taylor all her life when Taylor’s father left her pregnant. Leading to Taylor having an ideology of women not needing men in their life. Taylor starts to become extremely …show more content…
This is important due to her want for a traditional family, it slowly leads Taylor into thinking a traditional family isn’t so atrocious. As Lou Ann and Taylor establish a friendship, working together when, Lou Ann’s husband leaves her pregnant and goes off joining the rodeo like the mothers of the “1960-2016 period, the percentage of children living with only their mother nearly tripled from 8 to 23 percent” (Bureau). This leading to her being insecure in her new role as provider and mother to her son Dwayne Ray. She no longer has someone in charge telling her what to do and nobody to follow. This leads her to be more confident in herself as she starts to slowly become independent in taking care of Dwayne Ray. This is important for the sake of Taylor as she starts to become insecure and no longer confident in being a parent to Turtle. Lou Ann can give her the best advice and Taylor can easily understand as she saw Lou Ann’s journey in aggrandizing her confidence and independence. Because Taylor saw Lou Ann’s journey she can then apply this to her own journey in officially adopting …show more content…
She starts to be a more realistic mother as she learns as she goes and starts to appreciate having Turtle as long as she can. She especially feels this when Esperanza tries to take her life. In the moment Taylor finds out Esperanza lost her daughter leading to Taylor taking further precautions with Turtle. She starts to relate to Esperanza when someone at the park tries to take Turtle away. This is important because it makes Taylor inaugurate being a mother seriously and aggrandizing a realistic view on motherhood. She starts to think better about the decisions she’s going to carry out and how it’s going to affect Turtle. Such as when she’s about to adopt Turtle she thinks earnestly about if Turtle is better off with her being the mother or going through the foster
“Mama always knew barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew” (3). Prediction 3. This story could be about Taylor keeping her values or breaking them. The normality of Kentuckians during this time was to become pregnant at 16 and drop out of school.
There are many relationships in bean trees, and the author focuses on females and their family relationships. Taylor and Turtle is one of the main major part in the book. For example, when Tylor first meet turtle, they leave as a new form of family. Most people think family is people who are related with you in blood like parents, sisters, and brothers. However, family is more than that, what family mean is love, care, and you feel safe with them. When Taylor moved in with Lou Ann and her son, her family becomes even bigger than before. They support and help each other in difficult situations by sharing their experiences. Taylor makes many risks to keep turtle with her as a family. She starts taking care of her, and make sure that she is safe. The major theme in the beam trees was family formed, and Tylor starts consider Turtle her family when she start taking care of her appearance, taking care of her heath, and making sure she is safe.
Taylor is raised in a non-traditional setting; her mother, Alice Greer, is a single mother takes care of Taylor by herself. Alice had been married before, but her husband told her not to get pregnant and so when she did he left, and she tells Taylor that this was the best deal she ever made. She is extremely supportive of Taylor, in all that she does, but also expects the very best from her. Taylor knows this saying “then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good” (Kingsolver 10). Alice takes on both the
Before leaving on her journey west, Taylor had been living with her single mother, Alice Greer. Since the day Taylor was born, she and Alice both depended on each other for most everything. By leaving, Taylor was gaining independence for both her and her mother alike. In Arizona Taylor lived with Lou Ann Ruiz, a fellow Kentuckian who was also new to raising a child alone. Both Lou Ann and Taylor were able to discover new sides of themselves and learn how to live without the help of a man (in Lou Ann’s case), or
Kingsolver strongly disagrees with Socrates on the role of the mother in the family. While Socrates sees no need for a single maternal influence, Kingsolver entire writing centers on the importance of motherhood. When Taylor leaves Kentucky to head out into the world on her own, she leaves behind her mother, who has played a significant role in creating the strong woman that Taylor has become. Taylor frequently comments on the many things she learned from her mother, who urged her to talk to her teacher about the job at the hospital, and encouraged her that barefoot and pregnant was not [her] style (3). Taylor's mother wouldn't allow her daughter to become like all the other girls in their town, but rather, she hoped for her success in life. She was a positive role model, an idea that
In the beginning of the story we see that Taylor is an average teenage girl living with a single mother. She says, “But I stayed in school. I was not the smartest or even particularly outstanding but I was there and staying out of trouble” (3). She was called “Missy” for a lot of her childhood
Tan develops her relationship with the audience by allowing us inside of her head and her private conversation that she had with her mom after Robert left. This helps to appeal to the emotions of the audience
The book Do Parents Matter? written by Judith Rich Harris discuss the topic of nature versus nurture when raising a child. Her books discuss how parents do not influence the child’s personality and how there are many different ways a child personality is created.
The strength of the female population is constantly increasing. Women are gaining the courage to be stronger and more independent. Women are proving that they are just as strong as men, they are becoming CEO’s and running for president. Barbara Kingsolver wrote these three main supporting characters going through difficult events, but making it through them with the strength they have as single females. The female strength in these three women is one of the main themes in the book The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver.
Everyone adjusts to change differently. For example, the character Lou Ann, had a baby and her husband left her. There are several ways that she could have handled it. On one hand she could have said, ?To heck with him, good riddance.? But she chose to take it hard, she slipped into a form of depression and was easily pushed around by others, because she was afraid of them leaving her if they got mad. Taylor helped her change all that.
A positive mind is what is needed the most for when you are trying to make a huge life decision. In The Bean Trees we see some characters that have the biggest hearts and open minds. This leads to them caring for other people, even if they are not related, even if they just met them. There is this article named “Brainology” that talks about the impact and the importance of having a open, or what they call a growth mindset. The idea is that with a growth mindset you are more likely not to give up on challenges right away. Whereas a fixed mindset as soon as you fail you feel as if you’re not going to get it and you give up. We see this in the book throughout the whole story. We see this esoechaily with the mother figures, even though Lou Anne has low self esteem and frightened of everything we see her build her confidence throughout the book. We see this mindset with Esmeralda, helping Taylor out in the end with a really big favor. We even see this with the social worker that questions Taylor. She sees that Taylor really cares for Turtle and goes out of her way to help her adopt her. This growth mindset runs through all the women in the story because they have to be driven in order to have a good life.
The childhood of any individual is vital to preparing a person for their future. Taylor wasn’t born into a rich and famous family, she had to learn that one must work hard for what they have. It was that same drive she learned at a young age that lead to her incredible achievements later in life. Taylor
Social Status was a main key factor in the novel. Throughout the novel Merle Hodges demonstrates how important having a social status was in the Caribbean. Despite the way that Beatrice felt about Tantie, Tantie was still doing everything in her will to raise Tee and her brother toddan the right way. At first Tee and Aunt Tantie were getting along just fine. Tee even reveals how much she was enjoying her time staying with Tantie.
Because Tracy’s mother, Mel, was a single parent, Tracy lacked the privilege of growing up with a fatherly figure in her life. Her father had little to do with her life, and was not interested in her behavioral, social, and academic problems. Mel was too focused on trying to make a living for her two children that providing support was not one of her priorities. As discussed in class, parents influence their children in two significant behaviors. Through indirect ways, Mel was influencing Tracy through modeling and parental stress.
Author use many symbolism in the book The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver. She uses symbolism because it makes it easier for readers to understand the deeper meaning or feeling of the character or the events that are happening. For example, author uses the symbolism of bean trees as transformation and Ismene as the abandoned children to show the deeper meaning of them.