The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem When August was telling Lily about May she said, “Everything just comes to her- all the suffering out there- and she feels as if it’s happening to her” (Kidd 95). The Secret Life of Bees is a story about a girl named Lily who runs away from home to find a family called the Boatwright’s. They are cultured woman who are like mothers to Lily. May, who stands in as one of Lily’s mothers, has a tough time coping with life so she builds her own little Wailing Wall in her backyard to go and morn at. May from The Secret Life of Bees connects to the image of the Wailing Wall by using it in an equivalent way to how it remains to be used in Jerusalem.
The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem is a safe place where people can go to pray and cope. The Wailing Wall is 187 ft. tall and is made of …show more content…
August is explaining to Lily about how May copes she says, “Like what they have in Jerusalem. Jewish people go there to morn. It’s a way for them to deal with their suffering. See, they write their prayers on scraps of paper and tuck them in the wall” (Kidd 97). May’s sisters encourage her to build the wall for her to let go of her worry’s. This wall really helps May every time that she felt depressed or cried she will go out to the wall and write her worry on a piece of paper and she will stick it in between the cracks of the wall. When May sticks the papers into the cracks of the wall it is like she is lifting the weight off her shoulders that she is burdened with.
Did May connect to the Wailing Wall the same way that people in Jerusalem did? May used the Wailing Wall to morn and cope with life just like the people in Jerusalem. The Wailing Wall really helped May deal with her problems. The Wailing Wall remains a safe place where anyone can go to pray or
The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem is a safe place where people can go to pray and cope. The Wailing Wall is 187 ft. tall and is made of …show more content…
August is explaining to Lily about how May copes she says, “Like what they have in Jerusalem. Jewish people go there to morn. It’s a way for them to deal with their suffering. See, they write their prayers on scraps of paper and tuck them in the wall” (Kidd 97). May’s sisters encourage her to build the wall for her to let go of her worry’s. This wall really helps May every time that she felt depressed or cried she will go out to the wall and write her worry on a piece of paper and she will stick it in between the cracks of the wall. When May sticks the papers into the cracks of the wall it is like she is lifting the weight off her shoulders that she is burdened with.
Did May connect to the Wailing Wall the same way that people in Jerusalem did? May used the Wailing Wall to morn and cope with life just like the people in Jerusalem. The Wailing Wall really helped May deal with her problems. The Wailing Wall remains a safe place where anyone can go to pray or