Similarities Between The Secret Life Of Bees And To Kill A Mockingbird

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Good relationships are believed to be built on trust. And the thing with trust is when people meet each other, trust is already there until one does something to break it. Sarah’s key, The Secret Life of Bees, and To kill a Mockingbird are all books of wisdom that teach more about society and life than lessons of history. The thing that connects these books is the trust that the characters have for one another and especially their trust to the strangers that they newly meet. Trusting a stranger with your life is like giving your soul to someone for safekeeping.

In the first novel, Sarah’s key, Sarah is a little jew girl living in Paris during the big roundups of World War II. One day policemen knocked on Sarah’s door to take her and her
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As the research goes on and on Julia finds a trail of secrets about Sarah that links to her and her family. Throughout the whole story, incidents of trust flow. At the beginning when the parisian policeman showed up at Sarah’s door, Sarah and her brother fight over whether he should or shouldn't go into the cabinet, but then Sarah, who desperately was trying to help him, agrees and the following conversation is made “ “Are you afraid in there?” she said softly… “No,” he said. “I’m not afraid. You lock me in. They won’t get me.” (Rosnay 8-9).” This quote resembles the huge amount of trust her brother had for her, he trusted her with his own life to be locked in that cabinet not knowing when she would come back or if she will come back. In another occurrence, Sarah and her friend were just trying to escape when one of the policemen caught them. She went out of …show more content…
They run away to Tiburon, the town that holds the secret to her mother’s past. When they reach Tiburon, they are taken in by three black beekeeping sisters. Lily hasn’t lived in a very trusting environment her whole life but, when she decides to take her life into her own hands, she not only trusts her instincts she trusts other people she newly meets. On their journey to Tiburon, Lily and Rosaleen were walking on the highway hoping to find a ride when this incident occurred,” A coloured man driving a beat-up chevy truck full of cantaloupes had mercy on us… “I can drop you three miles from Tiburon.” (Kidd 50).” Now the fact that they needed the ride and had no choice is one of the factors they agreed to go with him but, if he didn’t look trustworthy Lily and Rosaleen wouldn’t have taken the ride.They trusted this complete stranger on the road to drop them at their destination and not harm them in any way. When they reached Tiburon, they found the house of the beekeeping sisters and the following conversation was made ” “I’m Lily and this is Rosaleen,” I said… “We ran away from home and don’t have any place to go.” … “Well you stay here till you figure out what to do.”(Kidd 72).” Lily and Rosaleen didn’t know who these people are but, they trusted to be safe and to be to be taken in by these strangers. August on

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