Area’s in the United States such as cities in South Carolina in the 1960’s during a time as the Civil Rights Movement had such an impact on some people and it being such a hard time with racism and lots of prejudice situations. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd shows Lily’s coming of age and how she grows up with all of the experiences she is faced with. Lily Owens had lived in Sylvan, South Carolina with her Father T Ray and caretaker Rosaleen. Lily’s upbringing was troubled her father had verbally and physically abused her he didn’t exactly know how to raise a teenage girl. Her mother Deborah Owens had passed away to a tragic accident, accidentally caused by Lily ten years prior to the setting in the novel. Rosaleen who had worked in T Ray’s peach farm had hired her to
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August had Zach delivering honey pots into town and Lily had joined him. Rumors had spread around Tiburon the famous actor Jack Palance was coming to Tiburon with a colored women and was letting her sit in the same section as him. as Zach and his three friends had stood in a circle discussing it. The white men had laughed and ridiculed Zach and his friends stood and drank R.C. cola’s glaring at the men. One of the three boys had thrown a glass bottle at one of the men’s noses and all three had gotten arrested leaving Lily and the honey wagon in town, Lily had walked miles to get back to the Boatwright’s. Seeing Zach after he had been released from jail he became a whole new person with an evolved mindset, “Something I couldn’t put my finger on had evaporated from his face.” Lily had noticed a change in Zach from when he had gotten out hoe he had seemed colder. Being faced with experiences like those can definitely change a person they can become distant and angry and he had become angry due to the situation and how the men antagonizing the situation had gotten away with it all because he was
August had Zach delivering honey pots into town and Lily had joined him. Rumors had spread around Tiburon the famous actor Jack Palance was coming to Tiburon with a colored women and was letting her sit in the same section as him. as Zach and his three friends had stood in a circle discussing it. The white men had laughed and ridiculed Zach and his friends stood and drank R.C. cola’s glaring at the men. One of the three boys had thrown a glass bottle at one of the men’s noses and all three had gotten arrested leaving Lily and the honey wagon in town, Lily had walked miles to get back to the Boatwright’s. Seeing Zach after he had been released from jail he became a whole new person with an evolved mindset, “Something I couldn’t put my finger on had evaporated from his face.” Lily had noticed a change in Zach from when he had gotten out hoe he had seemed colder. Being faced with experiences like those can definitely change a person they can become distant and angry and he had become angry due to the situation and how the men antagonizing the situation had gotten away with it all because he was