Show:
Characters
Plot
Problems
Misc.
Literary Devices
100
Buries Shirley Poppy because she saw her mother buried.
Who is Turtle?
100
The name of Mattie's shop.
What is Jesus Is Lord Tires?
100
She was badly beaten and molested.
Who is Turtle?
100
Turtle's first sound and word.
What are a giggle and "bean."
100
The use of a person, place, object, or activity that stands for something else.
What is symbolism?
200
The original name of the narrator.
Marietta "Missy" Greer
200
The person whose name is ironic because he is mean and unholy.
Who is Angel?
200
Lou Ann didn't want her baby to be born on Christmas because it would remind them of this.
What is Angel's accident (that paralyzed him)?
200
Lou Ann's son.
Who is Dwayne Ray?
200
The way a writer develops characters' personalities.
What is characterization?
300
Taylor gets upset when Turtle calls her Ma.
Who is Esperanza?
300
This is the condition that Dr. Pelinowsky tells Taylor that Turtle may have.
What is Failure to Thrive?
300
Esperanza and Estevan had to leave her behind in their home country.
Who is their daughter Ismene?
300
Families are not always made up of people who are related. (literary element)
What is a theme of the Bean Trees?
300
The feeling or atmosphere a writer creates for the reader.
What is mood?
400
The blind woman who always wears red; she was with Turtle in the park when Turtle was almost abducted.
Who is Edna Poppy?
400
The country where Estevan and Esperanza are from.
What is Guatemala?
400
The two people who were attacked and possibly almost abducted in the park.
Who are Turtle and Edna Poppy?
400
The night blooming cereus; birds; rhizobia. (literary element)
What are symbols in the Bean Trees?
400
The message about life or human nature the writer wants the reader to understand.
What is theme?
500
The enthusiastic employee of Red Hot Mama's
Who is Lou Ann?
500
The most racist person in the book who believes that people should stay put in their own country instead of coming to America.
Who is Virgie Mae Parsons?
500
The two "problems" that Taylor eventually counts as blessings.
What are tires and motherhood?
500
Kentucky, Cherokee Nation, Arizona, Oklahoma. (literary element)
What are the settings of The Bean Trees?
500
The method of narration used in The Bean Trees.
What is first person point of view?