Bees play an important role in Lily’s life,they guide Lily, accompany her, and drive her forward. For every important action Lily takes in the novel, bees and their products play a role: from realizing she is in love with Zach (when she licks honey off his finger) to realizing she loves August (when she lets the bees rest on her body), showing that she trusts him. The epigrams at the beginning of each chapter concern bees; the bees in Lily's room reach out to her and show her she must leave; and the bees in the Boatwright house are a story in teaching about community, life, and death. The bees in Lily's room tell who she is and what she must do. When Lily captures them in a jar, they do not leave the opened jar because they have become used
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“Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We’re all so human. Your mother made a terrible mistake, but she tried to fix it.’” Lily gets older and the older she gets, the more she starts to realize that bees are the sign that her mother sent,because if you think about it, it was her mother's belongings that led them to the Pink House,everything she did was led or based off her mother’s belongings. In Tiburon, she lives in the honey house, and tending bees become her job. Early on, when August asks Lily what she loves, she says bees. Bees, like Lily, also need a queen or a mother figure in order to live. Lily uses the memory of her mother as this figure. Lily sometimes depends on Rosaleen to fulfill that role of a mom, but once they get to the Pink House, Lily mainly counts on August. Eventually, she turns to all of her "mother's" to fulfill this need in her life including the bees. Although Lily is technically motherless, many women in the book try very hard to fill that emptiness in her life. They all try hard, but the only things that can do that is the bees. they led her on, get her through, even at the worst times she always goes to the bees. They serve as many things to her like family,friends,a escape and most importantly, her freedom,“Well for instance, every bee has a role to
“Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We’re all so human. Your mother made a terrible mistake, but she tried to fix it.’” Lily gets older and the older she gets, the more she starts to realize that bees are the sign that her mother sent,because if you think about it, it was her mother's belongings that led them to the Pink House,everything she did was led or based off her mother’s belongings. In Tiburon, she lives in the honey house, and tending bees become her job. Early on, when August asks Lily what she loves, she says bees. Bees, like Lily, also need a queen or a mother figure in order to live. Lily uses the memory of her mother as this figure. Lily sometimes depends on Rosaleen to fulfill that role of a mom, but once they get to the Pink House, Lily mainly counts on August. Eventually, she turns to all of her "mother's" to fulfill this need in her life including the bees. Although Lily is technically motherless, many women in the book try very hard to fill that emptiness in her life. They all try hard, but the only things that can do that is the bees. they led her on, get her through, even at the worst times she always goes to the bees. They serve as many things to her like family,friends,a escape and most importantly, her freedom,“Well for instance, every bee has a role to