How Many Themes Does The Author Use? Many!
In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees, Written by Sue Monk Kidd, the author tries to thoroughly convey many themes towards the readers of the book. In this book, the author Sue Monk Kidd goes in depth on the irrationality of racism, and how many people think that people of colour are vicious, or just useless human beings without a purpose, without actually giving any thought about it, and just saying whatever pops into their heads. The author goes into detail on the power of female community, and how the protagonist, Lily Owens, finds at the Boatwright house several females, who take her in as mothers and how she learns the power of female community. And finally, Sue Monk Kidd also tries to convey …show more content…
In the novel, Lily makes her way to, and is taken in by the Boatwright sisters, August, May, and June, and finds several surrogate mothers, and learns the powers of female community. At the beginning of the novel, Lily is desperate to find out what happened to her mother and by realizing that she has died, Lily cherishes the prized possessions left behind by her mother Deborah. Lily shows the awareness of her feminine traits and strongly regrets that she’s been missing out on certain things that females should learn from their mother, given her mother is dead. To take into perspective, she grips onto her mother’s white gloves that she use to wear when she was alive and holds on to them dearly as a way of remembering her. In the novel, she opens a bag that she finds within her mother’s old closet, and states “The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained (with) the colour of age. When I pulled them out, I thought, her very hands were inside here. I feel foolish about it now, but one time I stuffed the gloves with cotton balls and held them through the night.” (25). The gloves that she found ad held onto dearly, was her only mother-daughter bond she had at the time, given her mother died, and it was the only type of memory she had of her mother that resembled love. In this case however, although Lily lacks a mother, she still has female companionship. Rosaleen was a black maid at the time who would serve both T.Ray and Lily, but what is astonishing is that Lily looks to Rosaleen as more of a stand-in-mother, where she looks to for love and support. When Rosaleen is arrested because of the confrontation she had with the racist men, it serves as a kickstarter for Lily’s drive to start her journey to Tiburon, a place of which she found written behind a picture of her mother. After she breaks
In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees, Written by Sue Monk Kidd, the author tries to thoroughly convey many themes towards the readers of the book. In this book, the author Sue Monk Kidd goes in depth on the irrationality of racism, and how many people think that people of colour are vicious, or just useless human beings without a purpose, without actually giving any thought about it, and just saying whatever pops into their heads. The author goes into detail on the power of female community, and how the protagonist, Lily Owens, finds at the Boatwright house several females, who take her in as mothers and how she learns the power of female community. And finally, Sue Monk Kidd also tries to convey …show more content…
In the novel, Lily makes her way to, and is taken in by the Boatwright sisters, August, May, and June, and finds several surrogate mothers, and learns the powers of female community. At the beginning of the novel, Lily is desperate to find out what happened to her mother and by realizing that she has died, Lily cherishes the prized possessions left behind by her mother Deborah. Lily shows the awareness of her feminine traits and strongly regrets that she’s been missing out on certain things that females should learn from their mother, given her mother is dead. To take into perspective, she grips onto her mother’s white gloves that she use to wear when she was alive and holds on to them dearly as a way of remembering her. In the novel, she opens a bag that she finds within her mother’s old closet, and states “The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained (with) the colour of age. When I pulled them out, I thought, her very hands were inside here. I feel foolish about it now, but one time I stuffed the gloves with cotton balls and held them through the night.” (25). The gloves that she found ad held onto dearly, was her only mother-daughter bond she had at the time, given her mother died, and it was the only type of memory she had of her mother that resembled love. In this case however, although Lily lacks a mother, she still has female companionship. Rosaleen was a black maid at the time who would serve both T.Ray and Lily, but what is astonishing is that Lily looks to Rosaleen as more of a stand-in-mother, where she looks to for love and support. When Rosaleen is arrested because of the confrontation she had with the racist men, it serves as a kickstarter for Lily’s drive to start her journey to Tiburon, a place of which she found written behind a picture of her mother. After she breaks