Burt's Bees

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…

In The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, a fiction novel, Lily, a fourteen year old girl learns about her past, including the death of her mother and her father’s true feelings for her. She travels with her fill in mom Rosaleen, to try to find a new and better life.Many reviews state how pleasurable this book was. Book magazine states: “Maybe it’s true that there are no perfect books, but i closed this one believing that i had found perfection.” (Monk Kidd) “Someone who thinks death is the…

One of the best novels I have read in awhile is the Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd which shows the epitome of women empowerment and overcoming the patriarchy system.As the book takes place in South Carolina 1964 ,a time where women had very little say in what they could do in life, takes place with fourteen year old Lily Owens who struggles with the loss of her mother and with the initial theme of forgiveness through woman vs self in overcoming the challenge of her guilt for accidentally…

Author Sue Monk Kidd was raised in a small town named Sylvester, Georgia, a town that had a deep influence in the writing of her first novel The Secret Life of Bees. She went to school and graduated from Texas Christian University in 1970 and after took creative writing courses at Emory University and Anderson College, as well as studying at Sewanee, Bread Loaf, and along with going to many writer’s conferences throughout the years. This book is a coming of age fiction book. a coming of age book…

Throughout the novel, The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd sends the main character, Lily, on a journey to better understand where her mother came from. Lily was raised from an early age strictly by T. Ray, her father, who does not have a good or close relationship with her at all. Although T. Ray is only directly with Lily at the beginning and end of the novel, he affects Lily throughout the whole story. Kidd communicates that all people love differently by choosing to use T. Ray as both an…

The secret life of bees Part A- Character Description May boatright is youngest of the Boatwright sisters. She is a woman who lives in Tiburon Carolina in the flamingo house with her other two sisters. She was named May along with her twin sister April, because their parents loved spring and summer.May physically is a thin woman who wears colorful house clothes. She has a muscled, fit physique with light skin and tall figure . Her hair is always in braids and sticking out in many directions.…

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…

Secret Life of Bees Theme “People, in general, would rather die than forgive.” (Kidd 277) Though it might sound morbid, Sue Monk Kidd states the grim reality through a revelation of Lily Owens, the main character in her novel, The Secret Life of Bees. Lily must learn to receive and offer forgiveness as she matures throughout the novel, but as in all situations (and especially in her’s), forgiving is not easy. Growing up with her father, T. Ray, Lily has been the victim of abuse and negligence.…

by herself. The honeybees of Tiburon, South Carolina showed Lily a new path to take. The bees have a great impact on Lily’s new life. In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the bees symbolize Lily in several ways. First, other worker bees do not know much about the queen; just as Lily does not know about her mother. The queen bee always stays in the hive and hides from other bees. Lily’s mother was the “queen" of the family and she died before other fellow humans have…

Watterson once said, "There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse." In each of our lives, we encounter problems that cause us pain or make mistakes that burden us with guilt. In the novel The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd shows us someone who suffers a tremendous loss at her own fault. The protagonist, fourteen year old Lily Owens, accidentally shoots and kills her mother as a small child, causing her to loathe herself. Lily must face the…