Dakota Fanning

The search for identity in The Secret Life of Bees Identity is defined as the “condition or character as to who a person or what a thing is; the qualities, beliefs, etc., that distinguish or identify a person or thing” (Dictionary.com). Each person is born with the ability to eventually find their true identity. In a world of societal pressures, this process can be a difficult journey. Through the influence of others and experiences a person’s identity begins to unfold. The identity is a necessary part of the human experience and shapes a person into who they are, leading them to their future. In Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, Lily’s broken identity and haunting memory of her mother pushes her towards Tiburon and the identity altering influence of August Boatwright and Zach Taylor. This influence transforms Lily and reveals an identity that allows her to forgive the past and stand up to her father 's adversity. Throughout the novel Lily is haunted by the idea that she is the reason her mother is dead which causes her to question who she is and push her towards her identity lingering in Tiburon. Lily’s memory of her mother’s death is a dwelling point of who she believes she is, which causes a sense of false or lost identity. “Motherless since age four, she embarks on a journey to resolve the lostness and sense of abandonment that has defined her life” (Eckard). This feeling of false identity propels Lily into a search to heal the lostness that dwells within her…

Quite often, authors draw from their own personal memories when writing. Sue Monk Kidd is no exception. Kidd is a feminist and a writer-activist known for writing fiction reflecting the context of the civil rights movement in The United States. Combining the best aspects of fiction and broad conceptual ideals, Kidd used narrative as a tool for igniting social change. The significance of Sue Monk Kidd’s life, work, and legacy will last for years to come. Sue Monk Kidd was born and raised in the…

Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees is an exemplary novel which reveals the racism, sexism, and overall discrimination that unfolded in the south. The Secret Life of Bees transports the reader to the year of 1964 in South Carolina, where racial tensions were almost as high as the temperatures and people were surrounded by oppression. During this humid summer a young girl named Lily Owens runs away from her abusive father T. Ray, in search of her mother's past and the truth behind her tragic…

John to perform music. If it wasn’t for John’s musical inspirations he might have ended up working on the sea like his birth father. (Holm-Hudson, 2006). Marriage. John was married twice and during those marriages, he had two sons. John first married his high school sweetheart, Cynthia Powell in 1962. This was just before his band had their first big hit. John met his second wife, Yoko Ono while still married to Cynthia. John’s relationship with Yoko was the reason his marriage ended with…

services to many Native nations and tribes, including the Oglala Lakota, yet this Act is not showing any improvements. Below, we will explore the main reasons for this deficit and those include The Treaty of Laramie of 1868, the lack of importance shown towards education, the lack of jobs, and finally what all of these causes lead up to statistically. The Pine Ridge Reservation is home to the Lakota Indians and is located in the black hills right under one of America’s most prestigious…

These hypothetical questions posed to you are the realities of the Standing Rock Sioux Native American Tribe right now. The Dakota Access Pipeline debate as to whether or not it should be relocated from the Sioux Native American reservation is presently taking place due to its construction being merely half of a mile downstream from protected sacred land. The Dakota Access Pipeline has already been relocated once before further south from Bismarck due to concerns that pipeline leaks would…

career field. “My first class in mass communications was taught by a man by the name of Marv Bossart, and he was the local news anchor at WDAY.” Marvin Bossart taught at Minnesota State University Moorhead (from now on to be referred to as MSUM), where Chad attended. Chad made it clear that Marv had been the anchor at WDAY for thirty plus years by the time Chad was his student. “He was just a fantastic guy, and very influential for me, as kind of a mentor.” Chad would later end up working at the…

In the Little Bighorn Battle on June 1876 between the Lakota and Cheyenne people verse the United States. The conflict was the cultural change and clash between the two: on one hand there is the Lakota and Cheyenne were they are buffalo/horse people, and on the other hand there is the United States is industrial/agricultural people. From 1868 the US and Lakota negotiated on the Fort Laramie Treaty; however, that made conflict towards the other tribes (National Park Service Website). This…

In the Black Hills National Forest of South Dakota, Mount Rushmore, a large granite peak was dedicated in 1925 to be sculpted into a monument. That monument today is one of the most visited monuments in the United States. Mount Rushmore is a staple of the United States. On it, it has the faces of four of the most important Presidents of the United States. According to the Sculptor Gutzon Borglum “The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification…

After six weeks of fighting with many casualties on both sides, the then governor of Minnesota, Henry Sibley led a final onslaught against the Dakota Indians. The Dakota warriors were subdued and captured; about three hundred and three Sioux warriors were tried and sentenced to murder for their involvement in the war. Out of the number, thirty-eight of the warriors were publicly executed on December 29, 1962; the rest was commuted to various life sentences by Abraham Lincoln, who was the…