Chris Cleave's, Little Bee is literary fiction, narrative story, about a sixteen year old Nigerian English girl named Little Bee, who spent time in a British immigration detention center.
When she left the detention center three other girls came along with her. They all had a plastic bag with their belongings in it, the only things Bee had was a driver’s license, and a business card belonging to Andrew O'Rourke. When the girls leave the camp, Bee calls Andrew on the phone to inform him she will be coming to see him, but Andrew thinks it’s a joke and tells her not to come, but Little Bee still goes anyway. On the way the girls end up running into a man that shelters refugees and illegal immigrants, and lets them stay at his home. Late that night Little Bee wakes up from sleep and sees one of the girls have killed themselves. She continues her journey alone, to the man and women that saved her life on a beach, when she and her sister Nkiruka escaped one night. Sarah, Andrew’s wife, was on vacation trying to fix their marriage, because Andrew finds out she was with another man named Lawrence. They also have a child named Charlie …show more content…
As Bee describes the young lady in the A-line dress with the small white scars on her legs she says please agree with me that a scar is never ugly the person who put the scars there is ugly. The scar means you survived because take it from me a scar does not form on the dead (page 9). Also a sad story means you are alive because in order to tell the said story like girl 3 did: “the-men-came-and-they-burned-my-village-tied-my-girls-took-my-girls-whipped-my-husband-cut-my-breast-I-ran-away-through-the-bush-found-a-ship-crossed-the-sea-and –then-they-put-me-here” (page9&11). Little Bee told the ladies that they were in the Black Hill Removal Centre. It’s important you’re alive to tell your story and see your scar it means you have
When she left the detention center three other girls came along with her. They all had a plastic bag with their belongings in it, the only things Bee had was a driver’s license, and a business card belonging to Andrew O'Rourke. When the girls leave the camp, Bee calls Andrew on the phone to inform him she will be coming to see him, but Andrew thinks it’s a joke and tells her not to come, but Little Bee still goes anyway. On the way the girls end up running into a man that shelters refugees and illegal immigrants, and lets them stay at his home. Late that night Little Bee wakes up from sleep and sees one of the girls have killed themselves. She continues her journey alone, to the man and women that saved her life on a beach, when she and her sister Nkiruka escaped one night. Sarah, Andrew’s wife, was on vacation trying to fix their marriage, because Andrew finds out she was with another man named Lawrence. They also have a child named Charlie …show more content…
As Bee describes the young lady in the A-line dress with the small white scars on her legs she says please agree with me that a scar is never ugly the person who put the scars there is ugly. The scar means you survived because take it from me a scar does not form on the dead (page 9). Also a sad story means you are alive because in order to tell the said story like girl 3 did: “the-men-came-and-they-burned-my-village-tied-my-girls-took-my-girls-whipped-my-husband-cut-my-breast-I-ran-away-through-the-bush-found-a-ship-crossed-the-sea-and –then-they-put-me-here” (page9&11). Little Bee told the ladies that they were in the Black Hill Removal Centre. It’s important you’re alive to tell your story and see your scar it means you have