The Bean Trees, written by Barbara Kingsolver, scrutinizes southern culture, family, and the struggle of being a mother. The book centralizes on a young woman who leaves home to set off and live by herself, and eventually met with the burden of taking care of a child, who becomes known as Turtle, she picks up incidentally in the beginning of her journey. Along the way, the reader is informed of Taylor’s different characteristics through a variety of different motifs Kingsolver represents.
Birds are used throughout the novel to convey three common traits of Taylor’s: freedom, fragileness, and quickness. “I couldn't really listen.…