Although this story is being focused on the struggle of a young white girl in the South during the heart of the civil rights movement. This movie did a great job of illustrating beautiful culture of African Americans for the period of the civil rights era. The Secret Life of the Bees did a great job show some of the struggles African American had to face, whether it was Rosaleen being beat and being sent to jail just because she chose to stand up for herself, and most importantly deciding to go and vote. Or from what we saw happened to Zach, whose only dreams was to become a lawyer, getting beat up and almost kill for falling for a white girl. Another great example of culture was the worship sections we got the opportunity to experience, and most importantly view the practice by African Americans to change back the color of a deity to black. The black Mary reinforces the belief that faith you can get through any and everything, because you have something larger than one’s self. Through those worship we see how power of a role religion play in the lives of African American during the hardest of times during and the post slavery
Although this story is being focused on the struggle of a young white girl in the South during the heart of the civil rights movement. This movie did a great job of illustrating beautiful culture of African Americans for the period of the civil rights era. The Secret Life of the Bees did a great job show some of the struggles African American had to face, whether it was Rosaleen being beat and being sent to jail just because she chose to stand up for herself, and most importantly deciding to go and vote. Or from what we saw happened to Zach, whose only dreams was to become a lawyer, getting beat up and almost kill for falling for a white girl. Another great example of culture was the worship sections we got the opportunity to experience, and most importantly view the practice by African Americans to change back the color of a deity to black. The black Mary reinforces the belief that faith you can get through any and everything, because you have something larger than one’s self. Through those worship we see how power of a role religion play in the lives of African American during the hardest of times during and the post slavery