Mr_Shank

So far in the first 4 chapters Taylor leaves her home in Kentucky and ends up with a stranger’s child.

Some aspects of this remind me of a movie I once saw called “Where the Heart Is”. In this movie there is a pregnant woman who was abandoned at a Wal-Mart by her husband. There she meets a woman who eventually takes her in. She ends up living in the Wal-Mart for some time. One night she goes into labor and is about to have her baby in the middle of the store when a man walks by and notices her in the empty store. He breaks in and delivers her baby. After she gets out of the hospital she lives with the woman she met that day she got abandoned. So after she has her child she finds a family and they help her in anyway possible.

To me this relates to The Bean Trees because in both the women have a small child and are trying to fins their way in the world. Both of them seeking help from others. Taylor getting help from Mattie and the woman who gave birth to the Wal-Mart bay from the woman she met that one day. In both cases they are trying to find their way in the world and be good parents to their children, whether they are their real children or not.

Do you think that in these circumstances, Taylor seeking help from others is acceptable? Should she just give up the child all together, or keep getting help until she is stable enough to take care of the little girl on her own? Or should she keep the child without getting help and no stable future?