Author's Note: Turtle is a little girl in the Bean Trees. She is only about 3 and Taylor Greer, the main character in the book, kind of gets stuck with her. At first she will not speak or anything but soon she starts to talk and act like a normal child. When Taylor gets her she looks like she was beat-up, with bruises everywhere. This is a poem about little Turtle. HOPE YOU ENJOY IT!!!!
An innocent child
Battered and bruised
by the ones she loved.
She faces the world alone
inside her shell
isolating herself from the world.
A complete stranger
takes her under her wing
to show her to trust and to forgive.
It starts as a giggle
a small little noise,
that brightens everyone’s day.
She soon starts to show,
that she is slowly crawling out of her shell,
she is learning to trust the people around her.
She still has moments
where she hides in her shell,
hiding until she knows she is safe.
I read this book last year and I liked it a lot. I think you did a great job of explaining who Turtle is in a poem. I liked the ending, but I think you could add another stanza in-between the last one and the one before that, because it goes from something really happy to something kind of sad.
ReplyDeleteI read this book too last year. I also liked it a lot. My suggestion is if you liked The Beans Trees you should read The Secret Life of Bees, it's even better than the Bean Trees. Anyways you did a great job explaning what Turtle was like in the book.
ReplyDeleteThis poem really makes me want to read the book. Great job, I thought got a sense of what the book is about, even though I've never read it before.
ReplyDeleteI like your idea of using a turtle to describe how she was so timid. I have not read this book either, but I understood what you were saying anyways. Nice job.
ReplyDeleteI was another one of the people that read this novel last year, and the way that you described Turtle was exactly how I think that I would have. One thing that I would have to say about suggestions is that it may have sounded kind of cool if you would have rhymed with it... but I don't know because I haven't like read it or figured out how it would have sounded. But it was great how you had it:) nice job
ReplyDeleteI like how you used the girls name, Turtle as an idea to guide you through the poem referring to her "coming out of her shell". It was a nice poem, but I think that you could probably do without the last stanza because it kind of contradicts the poem and makes it a little too clear for the reader what is happening, instead of giving the reader concrete images that they must decipher themselves.
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