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    The document discusses the social issues highlighted in the novel The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver. Specifically, it summarizes how the novel brings attention to the hardships faced by refugees fleeing to the U.S. and argues that immigrants deserve sanctuary. It analyzes how the characters of Estevan and Taylor represent differing perspectives on the difficult choices refugees have to make. Moreover, it notes that even educated refugees like Estevan who flee violence are still denied asylum and forced into hiding, reflecting the harshness of U.S. immigration policies at the time.

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    The document discusses the social issues highlighted in the novel The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver. Specifically, it summarizes how the novel brings attention to the hardships faced by refugees fleeing to the U.S. and argues that immigrants deserve sanctuary. It analyzes how the characters of Estevan and Taylor represent differing perspectives on the difficult choices refugees have to make. Moreover, it notes that even educated refugees like Estevan who flee violence are still denied asylum and forced into hiding, reflecting the harshness of U.S. immigration policies at the time.

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    The document discusses the social issues highlighted in the novel The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver. Specifically, it summarizes how the novel brings attention to the hardships faced by refugees fleeing to the U.S. and argues that immigrants deserve sanctuary. It analyzes how the characters of Estevan and Taylor represent differing perspectives on the difficult choices refugees have to make. Moreover, it notes that even educated refugees like Estevan who flee violence are still denied asylum and forced into hiding, reflecting the harshness of U.S. immigration policies at the time.

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    Ari Waingold

    Ms. Seelye

    English 9 Honors

    14 February 2022

    Social Issues

    In The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver highlights the issue of immigration, specifically

    highlighting the horrors that many refugees face before fleeing to the and that immigrants should

    be granted sanctuary in the U.S. Through the juxtaposition of Estevan and Taylor, Kingsolver

    highlights how someone in America “can’t even begin to think about a world where people have

    to make choices like that,” referring to the fate of Ismene in Guatemala. Even an educated

    refugee such as Estevan, who flees from murderous conditions, still is not granted asylum in the

    U.S. and is forced to live in hiding from the government. The way Estevan is portrayed

    symbolizes the harsh unethicality of immigration policies in the U.S.

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