When my mom was expecting my older brother she was frightened because she felt like she wasn’t ready to be a mom at a young age and my dad felt the same because they were still teenagers trying to figure out their own lives. As the months passed my mom was getting so much help from the community and my dad’s parents so they felt like they had so much supporter that made them feel prepared and ready for what life had in hands for them. Now twenty years later they are living the life they have wanted. The Bean Trees by barbara Kingsolver also deals with having moments of difficulties and drastic changes in life even without you planning those changes but by having those changes you begin to go with the flow in order to continue with your life. …show more content…
Some things we learned about Taylor is that she came from a town where all the girls get pregnant before finishing school and without knowing what the world has in hands for them. As for Taylor she always paid attention in school because her mother always told her to have self respect for her and to finish her education before getting pregnant and ending up with no future. When Taylor is at school thinking how she got through high school without getting pregnant she remembered her mom saying “ barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew” (4). In this passage, a connotation of the word “ barefoot” is unable. The author also used the word “ pregnant” which brings to mind useless. Even though it is not stated these words help to suggest that in this scene taylor's mom was saying if she were to become a wife of a man who will just grow tobacco you will be at home taking care of all the kids and you not being able to have time for yourself. Her mother's words make her realize that that's not the life she wants for herself. It also makes her see that if she were to get pregnant and not finish school her life won't be a decent way of living . Taylor wants to make a change she wants to be different from the other girls in her hometown because every girl plays the same …show more content…
As Taylor finds a place to stay she gets in the room and tells the baby “ first order of business is to get you a bath” (30). What this means is that she thought right away that the baby needed care and it means that taylor is already thinking more and more of how she feels with the baby. Taylor begins to take off the babies shirt and soaks it in the sink but she notices that the baby has a bruise. “ The child’s hands constantly caught my fingers and wouldn’t let go. “ you little booger” … “you’re like a mud turtle. If a mud turtle bites you, it won’t let go till it thunders”(30). The reader can infer that the child feels comfortable with taylor because if she wouldn’t have the baby wouldn’t have held her finger, also by the baby holding Taylor's hand it means that she feels safe because based on what taylor said that the baby had a bruise which shows that the baby wasn’t being treated good. As she removes her pants she also finds out the baby is a girl, but what terrified her was that the baby girl had more bruises. Taylor describes that she thought she knew about every ugly thing one does to another but she could never think bad things would happen to a baby girl. As Taylor is bathing the little girl and lets go of her she says “ I doubled up on the floor at the base of the toilet and tried not to