The incident that became the most impactful on Taylor in Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees when she has to take care of Turtle. This impacted her life by making her a more responsible person and impacting her view on motherhood. As she progressed throughout her motherhood, she became more responsible with Turtle by caring, and nurturing with her more, although she wanted to avoid motherhood. Taylor, at the beginning of the book avoided motherhood, this shortly ended when she received a child who she named Turtle. Next, Taylor’s view on owning a child changed when she received one because she had slowly and slowly grew into loving Turtle when at first, she just enjoyed her company as she drove to Arizona from Oklahoma. Taylor slowly grows to love