The world is not a perfect place. Because of humanity’s imperfection, there is pain and suffering all around in society. However, although humans bring trouble to themselves with their flaws, they also possess the ability to handle unpleasantness and create a better world. In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees, the author, Sue Monk Kidd, illustrates how all of this is true. Monk Kidd’s novel focuses on a fourteen-year-old white girl named Lily Owens and shows how she is able to overcome her problems with the help of her new friends when she is on the run away from home. Using Lily’s experience, Monk Kidd portrays in her novel that there are many cruel things in the world such as lies, loneliness, and racism, but also demonstrates how positive actions can rid society of them.
One unpleasant thing in this world that is prominent in Monk Kidd’s novel is the horrible action of lying. Throughout the story, Monk Kidd makes the reader aware of the that dishonesty is very important to the plot and is one of the biggest problems of the main character. Lily can be seen being untruthful when she enters the pink house and tells the calendar sisters that she and Rosaleen had left home “to …show more content…
Early in the story, Monk Kidd makes it apparent that loneliness plays a big role in the protagonist’s life. When she depicts Lily’s life in the beginning, she informs her audience that Lily has no parental love nor friends and is in “misery [from] living with T. Ray ” (33). By providing such facts, Monk Kidd makes it obvious, right from the beginning, that Lily is a forlorn child who has to deal with a great deal of sadness in her heart. The reader can see that Lily must be suffering from great pain because she does not have any affection from family or friends. In essence, loneliness is another harsh aspect of the novel because it brings an ordeal to
One unpleasant thing in this world that is prominent in Monk Kidd’s novel is the horrible action of lying. Throughout the story, Monk Kidd makes the reader aware of the that dishonesty is very important to the plot and is one of the biggest problems of the main character. Lily can be seen being untruthful when she enters the pink house and tells the calendar sisters that she and Rosaleen had left home “to …show more content…
Early in the story, Monk Kidd makes it apparent that loneliness plays a big role in the protagonist’s life. When she depicts Lily’s life in the beginning, she informs her audience that Lily has no parental love nor friends and is in “misery [from] living with T. Ray ” (33). By providing such facts, Monk Kidd makes it obvious, right from the beginning, that Lily is a forlorn child who has to deal with a great deal of sadness in her heart. The reader can see that Lily must be suffering from great pain because she does not have any affection from family or friends. In essence, loneliness is another harsh aspect of the novel because it brings an ordeal to