Outside Reading!

I choose to Read the Bean Tree's because I didn't think any of the books seemed that interesting to be truthful. But I was pleasantly surprised when I started reading my novel. I really connected with Taylor and her drive to get away from her town once she is out of high school. When I was reading, it felt like I was just talking to a friend who was telling me her story. Through Taylor's struggle's I see that the author didn't want the reader to assume that she was just a teenager wanting to get away, but that she wanted to find a new life. And on the way to her new life, she is blessed with a beautiful baby which she chooses to deal with.
When Taylor finally decides to stop the car and settle down where she is, she ends up in Tucson, Arizona with her new baby Turtle. Arizona is a far way from her Kentucky life but she loves the change. This was the part of the book that really got me interested. That Taylor being young women could just drive and drive and just decide to stop and Tucson and make a life there. The setting to me seems wonderful, and it appears to be the perfect place to be the back drop of change from Taylor and Turtle.
Well a novel that I feel could be compared to The Bean Trees would be Pretty Little Lairs, which I read last year. And in that novel one of the main characters, Aria goes through many changes like her parents getting divorced, and her one and off again relationship. And I know that these novels aren’t exactly alike, in any means. But I think that Taylor and Aria are both going through changes in life that are very important which makes them similar in that way.
For a creative project I haven’t put to much thought into it right now because we haven’t had much direction and I am not done with the book. But I am thinking that I want to do a project on Teen Mothers and the struggles that Taylor has to face and all Teen Mother's have to face everyday.