“Daddy!” Most often, this is a proclamation of joy, a child announcing happiness toward their father. However, in Secret Life of Bees, a novel brilliantly written by Sue Monk Kidd, this is a cry of despair, a plea for one’s life. This stirring story is a tale of a young white girl, Lily, who with a black nanny named Rosaleen, runs away from home in search of a better life. Although often portraying events similarly, occasionally the book juxtaposes the film, which can be traced to the fact that different techniques are used in the different mediums. Techniques such as repetition, sentence length, and metaphoric diction are used in the literature, whereas acting, ________, and sound are used on the big screen. This narrative, told in both paperback
