The Secret Life Of Bees Essay

The Secret Life of Bees is a film that had many different themes and symbols revolving around women empowerment, racism, intersectionality, and loss. I like the film because it had showcased the lives of black women in particular in the 1960s. It presented a different outlook on how racism and discrimination was for not just the black man, but the strong independent black woman living in the white man’s world. According to Josie Pickens, we live in “ A nation literally built for white men,…

Throughout the course of the novel, there is a major change in the way that Lily perceives her parents. For example, in the start of the story, Lily believes it is her fault for her mothers death, and such, she cannot really hate her mother. She maintains a close bond with her mother through the small box of artifacts she keeps hidden within her room. On the other hand, Lily does not care for T. Ray at all. She abhors the way that she treats her, and never gets any emotional support from T. Ray.…

things like analysing a book to creating my own hero’s journey story and even having a structured debate. As I read the book I was assigned to do as a summer project named “ The Secret Life of Bees,” I realized I had been missing out on the meaning behind each book I had ever read. While annotating “The Secret Life of Bees,” I found myself showing favoritism towards certain characters and drawing personal connections with them. Annotating my book helped me find the meanings of small things…

Home Home is a place where a person feels buoyant or even content enough to perceive home as the locale that they want to spend the rest of their life in. The Bildungsroman novel, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Mon Kidd, the protagonist of the novel, Lily realizes that home is where she no longer lives in solidarity but rather in a loving community. Lily’s home is the pink house with the calendar sister because they cherish Lily and make her feel loved. Lily departs from her old house because…

father,T.Ray, is no help either. She meets the Boatwrights and everything changes. Sue Monk Kidd uses many symbols throughout the novel to help readers understand her themes. In The Secret Life of Bees, the author uses the symbols of water, Mary, and photographs to teach Lily and the readers important lessons about life. In the novel water was used to symbolized a new beginning or forgiveness. When Rosaleen and Lily got in a dispute they later rinsed off…

Setting is in Sylvan, South Carolina, in 1964 a fourteen year old girl named Lily Owens lives on a peach farm with her abusive father T.Ray. When she’s laying in her bed at night she is often visited by bees. Lily has a terrible secret that continues to haunt her. The secret is that she believes she shot and killed her mother Deborah when she was four years old. Her memory is incomplete and vague, but she remembers an argument between her mother and father and she picks up the gun that her…

Conner St. Laurent Advanced English 10 Journal Entries for The Secret Life of Bees Chapter 1-2 Quote “People who think dying is the worst thing don’t know a thing about life.” (2) Lily said that in the beginning of the novel in the exposition. This very important quote explains how Lily’s life has been immensely affected from her mother passing away. The quote pretty much proposes that living with someone’s death can be more painful than dying yourself. She also claimed that dying couldn’t be…

The novel “The Secret Life of Bees” deals with important social issues. The book is written by Sue Monk Kidd, which deals with racism and prejudice in the 60s from the perspective of a white teenager, Lily Owens. Racism and prejudice are the most important issues, and probably the main social issues. Racism is defined as: “Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior” (Oxford Dictionaries, u.d.). In the…

The “American dream,” as defined by James Truslow Adams, is the dream of “a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” Everyone, regardless of gender or skin color, strives to attain this dream of success. In The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, characters such as Lily, a young white girl who tries to seek out the truth about her mother, and Rosaleen, Lily’s African American housekeeper who aspires…

books usually have a protagonist who is fighting for their rights or having to deal with it makes their lives difficult and sometimes even dangerous. With the coming of age story The Secret Life of Bees, by. Sue Monk Kidd, things are a little different, our protagonist Lily Owens ,a white girl, runs away from her old life and starts one and through the relationships she builds with people not of her race, this helps her overcome her inner racism that she never realized was there before.…