Bees

Typed Revision 1 Ruthless and greedy are just two of the many words that could describe the two fathers from the book, Secret Life of Bees written by Sue Monk Kidd, and the song, “Oh Father” sung by Madonna. Lily, the protagonist of the book, is a thirteen year old girl living a life of abuse and torture. Lily lost her mother when she was very young and since then Lily has wanted to know more about her mother, Deborah. Similarly, the girl in “Oh Father” lost her mother and is mistreated, as…

When looking through book titles, somehow people’s eyes just jump to a specific title without any rhyme or reason. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd was the title that jumped out at me. I knew that there is no way that the book is actually about the lives of bees. I wanted to find out what it really meant. I read that it was set in South Carolina and was about a 14 year-old girl named Lily. So I thought that I could comprehend it easily from a voice of a girl around my age. I could relate…

The ending of "The Secret Life of Bees" was a fantastic ending, and it was fantastic because most, if not all of the loose ends of the story were all solved. To show all the resolved conflicts, the reader has to list the conflicts. One conflict was T Ray's return. The readers reading will and should anticipate when and if T Ray will return. Also, if he returns, will Lily have to leave. Another conflict was Lily and Rosaleen's charges, and whether if they will have to return, or will they be let…

For the Love of Bees Introduction Paragraph: Lily Owens thought love would never find her after she accidently killed her mother, Deborah. After Deborah died, her father, T-Ray, looked to Lily to express his anger and hatred on the situation. Throughout the abuse, Lily looked to her housemaid, Rosaleen, for a mother-figure she knew didn't have. As Lily grew, she found an interest in discovering her mother’s past and why her mother was absent before she died. Lily left her hometown and…

history, there was much segregation and racism followed by major attempts to integrate the country. In the late 1900s there was many attempts to integrate and equalize the country. This is not only the setting by which the novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd takes place but also one of the major reasons that the story came to be. The racism during this time period in the book is one of the major reasons that Lily breaks Rosleen out of jail. For my project I decided to bake cupcakes…

While growing up and experiencing the world it is crucial for a child to have a grown figure in their life to guide them. In the novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, Lily Owens is a fourteen year old girl whose mother died in an accident when she was four years old. Since her mother's death, Lily has been living with her father, T. Ray, and Rosaleen, a black women whom T. Ray “[has] pulled...out of the peach orchard”(Kidd 2) to pick up responsibilities around the house that Lily’s…

Sue Monk Kidd’s coming of age novel The Secret Life of Bees has many themes, a major one being that women are powerful. There is no lack of female characters, and each is strong in their own way, and as a community they are an incredible force, something the protagonist Lily comes to realize over the course of the story. In the opening of this story, Lily is in a society where women are not highly valued. This is implied through the times; the sixties wasn’t exactly known for the best…

In the book “Secret life of bees” an emotional historical fiction book written by Sue Kidd, Lily wants her mother more than anything in the world, But her mother is gone, so Lilly is trying to find information about her mother and where she went and Lily try's to find a new family. Throughout “Secret life of Bees”, Lilly is struggling to get over her mother’s death, but 3 african american women show Lilly that family can be found when least expected and love can be found in strange and wondrous…

Many people change throughout the course of their life, including their perspective, opinions, and beliefs. The Secret Life of Bees, written by Sue Monk Kidd, includes characters that go through this transformation. The story tells of a fourteen-year-old girl named Lily, who is raised by her abusive and brutal father T-Ray. One day she worked up enough courage and confidence to leave home, taking her nanny Rosaleen along on her journey. She travels to Tiburon, South Carolina looking for answers…

Harper Lee and The Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd portray racism, the importance of good lessons and parent child relationships in order to teach lessons and to be strong to defend or for a…