After finding out that Buddy was not as innocient as she, Esther become very upset at the thought of Buddy . As she laid in bed, Esther opens the book sent to her by the ladies day magazine stuff. She goes through the book and she Ā a story about a fig free. The Fig tree grew on a green lawn between the house of a jewish man and a beautiful nun. The nun the jewish man meet under the tree and they continously kept meeting under the tree. One day as they watch an egg hatching in a birds nest, they touched hands. The next day the nun didn’t come out anymore to pick fig fruits. Esther compares the story to her relationship with Buddy. They had meet in their own imaginary fig tree, and after seeing a baby coming out of a women; they went their separate ways. Later in the novel, i believe the fig tree becomes a symbol of the life choices the Esther faces. For instance her constant attempt to kill herself.
The first fig is believed to be native to Western Asia and has been distrubuted by man throughout the Mediterranean sea. Ā The fig tree is small dimensional tree that has numerous branches and a trunk rarely more than 7in in diameter. It consist of a copious milky latex and tiny flowers are massed inside the cell wall. The tree varies in color such as yellowish to copper, bronze or dark purple and the skin is thin and tender. The fig can be grown in a large range of soil, such as light sand, rich loam, and heavy clay or limestone. There are many culivated variities in each fig class. In fact there is about 700 different kinds. The most popular ones are Celeste and Brown turkey. Some fig are used for eating out the hand and others can be dried into coffee. In mediterranean countries, low grade gigs are converted in alcohol.
