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A great philosopher once said that our expectations and anticipations are usually better than the actual experience. I found this to be true in Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees. My expectations of the book were very different from the actual story line.
I enjoy novels with adventure and obstacles that the main character must fight to overcome. I was disappointed that The Bean Trees contained very little, if any, adventure. Taylor Greer's biggest problems seemed to be her car and her fear of tires. The fact that she was literally handed a Cherokee baby girl was not an issue with her at all. Taylor took everything in stride. Nothing bothered her for very long. She did not feel very worried about transporting illegal refugees across the United States. I thought there would be much more tension, but it was all taken care of in just a few pages. Estevan and Esperanza made it to their destination without any hassles or obstacles. It is extremely costly to transport refugees, and if the transporter is caught he or she faces fines or imprisonment. The refugees would face even worse consequences. The delicacy of this situation was downplayed too much. While I read the book I was sure that somehow Estevan and Esperanza would either get!
caught or come dangerously close to being caught. The refugees, including Estevan and Esperanza, were represented in a way that minimized the actual danger of their situation. Estevan explains to Taylor one night how people were being treated in Guatemala. Taylor realizes how little she knows about the outside world, yet that is as far as it goes. The realization is never put into action or further discussion. There is not a dramatic escape or a frenzied police search. Kingsolver made it too safe, too easy. Mattie, the woman who owns the garage, housed refugees, and she never got caught. I thought it would be somewhat similar to the situation faced by the Jews in Nazi Germany. The book would ha…