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The Bean Trees expresses the importance of nurture. Nevertheless, Taylor influences Turtle’s behavior and there are a lot of common things uniting them at the spiritual level. Such similarity is based on hereditary, and there is no wonder that Taylor and Turtle have different appearance as far as she is not her real mother. This physical similarity may be caught between Esperanza and Turtle, but it is quite difficult to find these ties between Turtle and Taylor ( Nurture, Loss, and Cherokee Identity 189). There is no wonder that Turtle has so close relationships with them as far as they belong to the same ethnicity. Estevan and Esperanza, two Mayan refugees from Guatemala, figuratively represent Turtle’s dead parents. The importance of hereditary ties is expressed in The Bean Trees in a full way.

Although many things in Turtle’s behavior may be changed, her genes are impossible to suppress.

Despite all these similarities, Taylor as well as other people notices that there are a lot of things testifying to the fact that this little Indian girl, named Turtle is not Taylor’s blood child. These similarities are explained not by genetics but by the nurture. Taylor becomes a real mother for her and many people notice many similarities between them. The author presents this development in details pointing out the influence of her background and present environment. Kingsolver’s work is the story about the upbringing and development of a little Indian girl. Although she does not have her own children, she has to become a mother for a little Indian girl.

The Bean Trees is a story about the woman who decides to begin a new life far from her parental house and the fate endows her with the possibility of becoming a mother. The author points out that nurture may change a child’s bearing and even the whole life, but she does not forget about the fact that genes are impossible to change at all and they become apparent during a child’s life (Dowling 122).

She even gives the same status to both of them. Kingsolver presents both these factors as very important and influential. It should be noted that the author does not contrast the role of these basic influential factors for a child’s bearing and development.