Analysis Of Pigs In Heaven By Barbara Kingsolver

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With America today people constantly struggle with identity. Especially minorities who are persistently pushing themselves to be a part of the American dream. Everyone wants a piece of the pie; however still many minorities are not treated equally, or respected. Kingsolver in her novel, Pigs In Heaven establishes Annawake as a Cherokee representative. She seemingly portrays her as the predator in the chapters. It is apparent through the novel that Annawake makes all her decisions out of her love for the Cherokee tribe and her brother Gabe, while Taylor commits to her choices through Turtle. Annawake does not appreciate the bond of mother and child;therefore disregarding Taylor's feelings of keeping Turtle. According to the novel ,Pigs In Heaven, Kingsolver portrays Annawake as a person who would stop at nothing to preserve her Cherokee tribe. She finds out through Oprah Winfrey that a little Cherokee girl has been illegally adopted by a white woman name Taylor. Annawake is so enraged that she starts yelling at the T.V. She even states to Jinny the "Indian child welfare act. You can't adopt an Indian kid without tribal permission". (Kingsolver, pg 55) Subsequently leading the readers to predict that she would make it difficult for …show more content…

Taylor was handed Turtle and she even states how "The woman told me Turtle's mother was dead, and that somebody had been hurting Turtle". (Kingsolver, pg 55) Taylor not even wanting to have children, even running away from Kentucky to prevent her from "....having babies up to her ears..." (Kingsolver, pg 54) ended up taking care of Turtle through the act of Maternal Instinct. Annawake now expects Taylor to ask for tribal permission when the tribe wasn't there for Turtle when she was getting abused. The readers and Taylor perceive this unfair and just plain

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