Growing Up Is Always Tough Growing up is rough on a lot of teenagers, boys andq girls. This idea is present in the story The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. The main Character Lily Owens lives in South Carolina on a peach farm with her father T. Ray who is angry at the world. Lily’s life takes a turn for the worst when her African-American nanny is imprisoned because she wanted to vote due to the signing of the Civil Rights Act. Lily and Rosaleen flee from the hospital in order to keep the white men from from finding and killing her. They face a long hard journey and travel a long ways to go to the place Lily has always dreamed of. Tiburon, South Carolina. They meet the Boatwright sisters as soon as they reach Tiburon. The duo stays
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After they escape from the hospital they are beside the river getting ready to sleep for the night and an argument breaks out. “Well you are dumb!” I yelled “You have to be dumb to pour your snuff juice on those men’s shoes like that. And then dumber not to say sorry.” Lily is angry at Rosaleen for not apologizing to the men for ruining their shoes. This is an example of racism within herself. Towards the middle of the book Lily begins to realize just how present racism is in her life. When she reaches Tiburon and meets the sister she is shocked. She has always believed what T. Ray has said and did not know that colored women could be intelligent like white people where. This surprised her when she listened to August talk. Lily does not even realize that she is being racist it just feels natural because that is all she has been around her whole live. Another example and probably one of the biggest is when she meets August’s worker named Zach. “If he was shocked over me being white, I was shocked over him being handsome.” This is another
Colin Dickinson
Argument Essay
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It is just her natural thought process because with what society said it was easy to just go with what they said. The final example in the middle of the story is also about racism. But, this time it is reverse racism. When they are having a prayer session Lily goes to put her hand on the statues heart and when she does June stops playing music. She does not like Lily because she is white. Lily is beginning to realize just how life is going to be if she is going to stay with August and it causes her to
After they escape from the hospital they are beside the river getting ready to sleep for the night and an argument breaks out. “Well you are dumb!” I yelled “You have to be dumb to pour your snuff juice on those men’s shoes like that. And then dumber not to say sorry.” Lily is angry at Rosaleen for not apologizing to the men for ruining their shoes. This is an example of racism within herself. Towards the middle of the book Lily begins to realize just how present racism is in her life. When she reaches Tiburon and meets the sister she is shocked. She has always believed what T. Ray has said and did not know that colored women could be intelligent like white people where. This surprised her when she listened to August talk. Lily does not even realize that she is being racist it just feels natural because that is all she has been around her whole live. Another example and probably one of the biggest is when she meets August’s worker named Zach. “If he was shocked over me being white, I was shocked over him being handsome.” This is another
Colin Dickinson
Argument Essay
Sophomore English …show more content…
It is just her natural thought process because with what society said it was easy to just go with what they said. The final example in the middle of the story is also about racism. But, this time it is reverse racism. When they are having a prayer session Lily goes to put her hand on the statues heart and when she does June stops playing music. She does not like Lily because she is white. Lily is beginning to realize just how life is going to be if she is going to stay with August and it causes her to