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This 12 page paper provides one view of the character of Turtle in Barbara Kingsolver's "Pigs in Heaven". This paper applies Freud's Ego Defense to an understanding of Turtle. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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growth and development. Elements like gender, economic circumstances, race/ethnicity, and social factors all determine variations in the development of an individual. Barbara Kingsolvers novel Pigs in Heaven
demonstrates the way in which social conditioning, bio0logical factors and psychological development can influence the way a person experiences life. Kingsolvers character Turtle, for example, is an individual who
is distinctly influenced by the particular elements of her childhood. Her socialization, the views of gender and ethnicity, and her own psychosocial functioning all influence her development and her
interactions with others. Kingsolvers Character Development In understanding Kingsolvers character development, it is necessary to consider the biological, psychological and social forces that shape her characters. In
understanding this, it is valuable to understand some basic assertions regarding her novel and the identities of her characters. Kingsolvers books title is based on a Cherokee myth in
which six boys were acting out and in order to teach them a lesson, their mothers cooked their baseballs for their dinner. The boys declared that only pigs would eat
such food. Since the spirits know that mothers know best, the boys became pigs. As they raced around they were lifted into the sky and became stars where the spirits
anchored them in order to "remind parents to love their kids, no matter what". The seventh star in the cluster is the mother who wouldnt let go of her child.
"Heaven" is also a tiny town in Oklahoma where Taylors mother goes and which is primarily a Cherokee town. This myth shows some of the identifying elements that relate
to systems theory and familial systems. Systems dynamics relates to the idea that things do not occur in a vacuum and simple cause and effect assessments do not take
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