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Have you ever been put into I situation in which you can stay
and never
prosper or leave, with nothing but mere material
possessions? This is the
dilemma that is brought forth to Marietta (Taylor) in the
novel The Bean
Trees by Barbara Kingsolver. Marietta grew up in Pitman, a
small rural town
in Kentucky. A town in which families "had kids just about
as fast as they
could fall down the well and drown" needless to say not a
town where many
people would want to live. Marietta was one of these people
not wanting to
be one of the families mentioned above. So she decided to
leave, sounds
like a simple solution, but the trials and tribulations along the
way created
an opportunity for education that far exceeds anything that
can be learned in
school. Not what is the square root of sixty-four but
problems that can cause
a person to think that they are not capable of overcoming
the roadblocks of
life. Strength in a time of suffering is a vital part of......

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