Deborah

T. Ray and Deborah are the mother and father of Lily, who is the main character in The Secret Life of Bees. Deborah was forced to marry T. Ray because she was pregnant with Lily and had to move in with him. This forced marriage sparked the rocky relationship between Deborah and T. Ray . When Lily was 4 years old, her mother died. Lily had accidently shot her mother and killed her. This tragic event sent both Lily and T. Ray into an emotionally unstable frenzy. Throughout the story Lily is trying…

indicates that Benjamin is the type of person to be known as the predator because he is a clever man that can capture a woman heart even at old age, but reading throughout the chapters about Deborah, Sarah and the three young women made me think that he is flirting with women, but he love his wife the most ever since Deborah entered the common-law marriage and both of them get married and have…

During this time he lodged at the home of John Read, where he met his wife Deborah Read. Before Benjamin, Deborah was married to John Rogers, a potter in August 1725. John quickly abandoned Deborah. It was rumored that John had committed bigamy during their marriage. John was believed to have run away to the West Indies and died in 1727/1728, but there was no proof of his death when Franklin…

called prophetesses. They are Miriam, the sister of Moses. “Miriam, motivated by jealousy, later directed a rebellion against her brother, for which she was punished with leprosy and banished from the camp of Israel for a week.” Another woman is Deborah, who was a mother and a judge in Israel (Judges 5:7). There is a third woman named “Huldah, living in the seventh century, the keeper of the royal wardrobe, is called a prophetess and was consulted by Josiah concerning Yahweh’s will after the…

In a state of panic, Deborah relates all of her knowledge of HeLa to her cousin, pacing anxiously and nervously. Deborah goes into a stroke-like spasm as her cousin touches her and begins to preach, yelling aloud “’I REALIZE God that TONIGHT there’s just some things doctors CANNOT DO,’” to which Deborah responds “’Show me where you want me to go with these cells, Lord, please… just help me with this BURDEN’” (291…

The main character in the book I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is Deborah Blau. If I were to go through Deborah's trash, I might find many uncanny things. In the beginning of the book Deborah attempts suicide, she cuts her wrists and enough blood spills to fill half a cup. I would think that this would be one of the many items in her trash can that have to do with her failed suicide attempts. In chapter two Joanne Greenberg wrote, “The half cup of blood on the bathroom floor had given all…

part of it. In a way, I might even want to apologize,” (234) said Lengauer. He took the time to explain the cells to Deborah and Zakariyya and because of him they have an understanding of how their mother made a difference to the world. Deborah’s death affected Skloot in a way that one of her family’s deaths would have. To Skloot, Deborah was more than a coworker or a source, Deborah was a friend. And that is why Skloot was successful with this…

“The plan was that I’d page Sonny [David] when I got to Baltimore, then he’d pick me up and take me to his brother Lawrence’s house to meet their father and - if I was lucky -Deborah” (67). When Skloot arrived in Baltimore she couldn’t get ahold of Sonny. She eventually ended up talking to Henrietta’s cousin Cootie. Cootie told her, “no one ever talks about Henrietta. Not when she was sick, not after she died, and not now”…

Aparna's hope to keep Pranab Kaku in the family is shattered when he begins dating an American woman, Deborah. Pranab brings Deborah over to Usha's house to have dinner with the family and invites her to come on trips to the park with Aparna and Usha. Eventually, Aparna, begins to stay home, as she is no longer able to watch the man she loves with another woman. As Aparna increasingly despises Deborah's presence, Usha begins to "anticipate her" (Lahiri, Hell-Heaven 8). Usha falls in love with…

Throughout this book, Lily feels alone and hopeless because she has no mother to be there wither her, as Lily was only four years old when her mother, Deborah, passed away. Lily meets new people along her journey of change who care and love her. Not until the end of the book does she realize these maternal figures and their love for her. Although Deborah is not present in Lily’s life anymore, Deborah’s motherly love and actions continue through August Boatwright. Throughout the events that Lily…