Annotated Bibliography: The Tale Of Three Trees

One's voyage to self-satisfaction and comprehension cannot achieve all alone. Dependably there must have different impacts to aid one little seed to develop and flourish. Throughout The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver depicts the setting in order to provide insight into Taylor Greer, a protagonist who struggles with discovering her true identity, through her journey to self-satisfaction. Taylor’s experience in Pittman, Kentucky, the trip to Tucson, Arizona and last but not least Cherokee Nation helps discover her true identity. Firstly, Kingsolver uses Taylor’s hometown state of Pittman, Kentucky to show the setting of how Taylor’s emotions and feelings of entrapment and desperation to get away reflect on her identity.

T.K. Muttaki, the author of "Life in the Treetop. " wrote this passage using Ethos to gain his readers' attention. Ethos are used as persuasion to the audience, like propaganda. In this case, the author uses Ethos to write about Treetops or Treehouses to share information about treehouses and shares his personal experience with them.

In this report I will explore the book Fire in The grove written by the author John C. Esposito. The book specifically describes the event of the fire, the reasons behind it, and who was responsible for this horrific disaster. The author explains that the main reasons of the fire were the structure of The Grove and the layout it was portrayed in. Later giving solutions on how to react if such incident happens as I explain further in the report.

Clive Waswa Ms. Meara Honors English 16 December 2016 Literary Analysis: The impact of Poverty “The Poverty line doesn't measure Poverty, it measures extreme Poverty," (Shapiro Marcy). Barbra Kingsolver’s book The Bean Trees, Focusses on the social justice issue Poverty. The Main character Taylor Leaves Kentucky, to escape poverty, she was determined to be different from all others who dropped out of school and had children. She dreamt of being different and achieving something with her life. In the The Bean Trees, Barbra Kingsolver challenges the idea that people in poverty are lazy and never work.

In his book A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah retells the very intense and traumatic events of being forced into the Sierra Leone civil war at such a young age. As he wanders through the African wilderness, trying to escape the Rebels, Beah explains old memories of his past to the readers. These memories mostly consist of his family and old adages he was told by them. One of these adages is about the moon, which will act as comfort for Beah as he searches for his family. Another thing that comforts as well as saves Beah throughout his journey is music.

Tenement districts in Brooklyn throughout the early 1900s provided challenges that entire families were forced to handle. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, by Betty Smith, depicts the Nolan family facing difficulties that even children had to overcome while they lived in one of these districts. Francie Nolan, the main character of the novel, is faced with the greatest difficulty of them all: growing up. Poverty was one aspect of Francie’s life that caused her to lack certain fundamental features of a regular child’s life. This is shown through Francie consistently being without food due to poverty, and having to discover for herself in a very difficult way that hunger was a painfully real issue.

The fictional novel , The Bean Trees , written by Barbara Kingsolver , takes place in a rural environment called Pittman County in Kentucky during the 1980s. The narrator and protagonist Marietta Greer, who later changed her name to Taylor Greer because she promised she would after stopping at Taylorville, Illinois , decides to leave her hometown to pursue a much more interesting one of her own. To do so ,she buys a 55 Volkswagen and heads to Tucson, Arizona . Taylor Greer is from a poor family in Pittman, who ends up not wanting to be like Newt Hardbine , who drops out of high school and dies after Taylor leaves the county. He is the representation of what could have been Taylor if she hadn’t left .

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They are always desiring for more, and never satisfied which makes them

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Umberto Eco in his book “Six Walks in the Fictional Woods” discusses several literature theories, which he originally told to students at the Harvard University. I, mostly, enjoyed reading it, because his vision of literature, his thoughts about books, authors, readers are different from mine, and that is one of the reasons why it is interesting. Of course, I did not understand everything, because Eco uses lots of unknown to me terminology and because of lack of experience from my side in literature and life. To begin with, I want to speak a little bit about two definitions from his first lecture “Entering the Woods.” Eco, there introduces a modal reader.

Truth and perspective can often be misleading. In "In a Grove," by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, several characters give their own testimonies regarding the murder of a samurai and the assault of his wife. However, these testimonies contradict each other in specific details. Although a perpetrator has been identified and captured, no conclusion regarding the true sequence of events that occurred can be found due to the confusing nature of the situation. The conflicting accounts of the events leading to the samurai 's tragic end create an ambiguous tale in which different viewpoints and opinions regarding the scenario are explained.

Dana Gioia’s poem, “Planting a Sequoia” is grievous yet beautiful, sombre story of a man planting a sequoia tree in the commemoration of his perished son. Sequoia trees have always been a symbol of wellness and safety due to their natural ability to withstand decay, the sturdy tree shows its significance to the speaker throughout the poem as a way to encapsulate and continue the short life of his infant. Gioia utilizes the elements of imagery and diction to portray an elegiac tone for the tragic death, yet also a sense of hope for the future of the tree. The poet also uses the theme of life through the unification of man and nature to show the speaker 's emotional state and eventual hopes for the newly planted tree. Lastly, the tree itself becomes a symbol for the deceased son as planting the Sequoia is a way to cope with the loss, showing the juxtaposition between life and death.

They don't believe they deserve what they want They're waiting for "the right time" Conflicting desires Fear that it will never happen if they try Fear that it won't live up to expectations

As the moon waxes (the amount of illuminated surface as seen from Earth is increasing),