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idea-driven claim title that reflects the

about what the text in content of the essay.
question shows. It is
interesting and
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it is a commentary The student includes
about life that is not the full name of the
One might think, based on the cultural importance of author and italicizes
obvious without this
interpretive claim. It is the full title of the text.
individualism in the United States, that a person can lead a Topic sentences
clear from the first part develop a logical
of the thesis that he The and coherent
student has
will support this successful life without any companions or loved ones. However, in structure that
selected evidence
claim with evidence and,flowsin his smoothly.
analysis, is
about the motif of The Bean Trees, author Barbara Kingsolver shows otherwise. The first
specific abouttopichow
flowering plants. The sentence
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them together with rhizobia and they make miracles" The Topic(305).
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learn “rhizobia”
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text to show a entirety of the world.
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casual reader.
claim.
by,support
but put she needs to transform into a successful and happy person

and become “flowers out of bare dirt” (152). While the “bare dirt”

represents malnourishment and emptiness, the “flowers”

represent fulfillment and a complete life. Through the

development of the motif of the flowering plants into the central

metaphor of the novel, Kingsolver illuminates that a life is only

complete with the support of loved ones.