Sue Monk Kidd had various events influence her life and career. These effects that had taken tolls on her are seen in her some of her books. Sue’s childhood experiences, family beliefs, and socialization with peers are the most driven based themes that are in her writing.
Sue Monk Kidd grew up in a house in Sylvester, Georgia that had bees in it. In her family’s guest room, the bees lived in the walls and tried to enter through the cracks. Sue’s mother was always cleaning up wads of honey that they left over on the floors. The constant sounds of buzzing made it feel like home (Cloud). This situation influenced the writing of her book, The Secret Life of Bees, as the main character Lily also grew up in a tiny southern house that was infested by bees. Lily tried to learn from the bees and use them to heal her losses, …show more content…
Listening to her father’s storytelling growing up persuaded her to decide to write some of her own. Sue’s teacher’s loved and applauded them as they read over them. She kept a long-term diary, incorporating its information into several of her stories and books. Even though she went to school for nursing, she later returned to her old ways when one of her nonfiction essays was published in Guideposts. She fulfilled her dream that she first had early in life slowly by freelancing and editing for newspapers/magazines and then becoming an author of fictional works. The two writers, Thomas Merton and Carl Jung, also took her interests in mythology and psychology and persuaded these areas into her pieces (“The Secret”). An event that strongly played a part in Sue Monk Kidd’s writing is the Civil Rights Acts of 1964. She still can picture the boiling tensions at voter registration drives and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. That terrible summer of injustice and racial unjust she felt was mandatory as serving as a backdrop when writing The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd grew up in a house in Sylvester, Georgia that had bees in it. In her family’s guest room, the bees lived in the walls and tried to enter through the cracks. Sue’s mother was always cleaning up wads of honey that they left over on the floors. The constant sounds of buzzing made it feel like home (Cloud). This situation influenced the writing of her book, The Secret Life of Bees, as the main character Lily also grew up in a tiny southern house that was infested by bees. Lily tried to learn from the bees and use them to heal her losses, …show more content…
Listening to her father’s storytelling growing up persuaded her to decide to write some of her own. Sue’s teacher’s loved and applauded them as they read over them. She kept a long-term diary, incorporating its information into several of her stories and books. Even though she went to school for nursing, she later returned to her old ways when one of her nonfiction essays was published in Guideposts. She fulfilled her dream that she first had early in life slowly by freelancing and editing for newspapers/magazines and then becoming an author of fictional works. The two writers, Thomas Merton and Carl Jung, also took her interests in mythology and psychology and persuaded these areas into her pieces (“The Secret”). An event that strongly played a part in Sue Monk Kidd’s writing is the Civil Rights Acts of 1964. She still can picture the boiling tensions at voter registration drives and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. That terrible summer of injustice and racial unjust she felt was mandatory as serving as a backdrop when writing The Secret Life of Bees