Pregnancy In Charlotte Bront�'s The Bean Trees

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In the book “The Bean Trees,” Taylor spends her time living in Kentucky avoiding pregnancy, until she decides to move to Arizona, where she gets stuck with a child, despite her efforts to avoid it. She does not know how to take care of a baby, and wonders what she should do with her. However, when the time came to find a stable family for the baby, she finds herself unable to part with her, and makes a large effort to be the baby’s legal guardian. She learns how the baby was in fact a blessing in her life, and not just something she was stuck with. In the book “The Glass Castle,” Jeannette lives in a very poor family that is constantly moving from state to state due to the parents, who are unable to uphold the responsibilities of a job. Her

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