Sue Grafton

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.…

A long walk to water Salva relied on not giving up and mental toughness and motivation. Imagine your town is under attack and you're in school then your teacher tells you to run but you want to go get your family but you alsodont want to save yourself from the horror in your city that is one of salvas problems. I probably could survived like salva because i’m pretty tough all you need is a positive attitude,mental toughness and motivation. A positive attitude is like you not…

from her abusive past with her father, but Lily did not take the journey 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…

He was tied to a tree and 3 gun shots rang and my heart dropped a long walk to water by linda sue park. salva is a survivor because he was shot at while almost getting drowned. he lost he family, and became a leader to over 200 lost boys. Salva and all of the other people at the refuge cape were lead out into the desert and forced to get in while being shot at. The refugee camp was forced to shut down because the government fell and they would no longer allow refugees to live in their country…

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…

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 temperature and people were surrounded by oppression. During this humid summer a girl named Lily Owens runs away from her abusive father T. Ray, in search of her mother's past and the truth behind her death. After a…

Throughout history, women have been the target of unrightful mistreatment and general injustice. This was especially true during the 1960s, particularly in the southern United States. In The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, a young white girl named Lily, is motherless and lives without a strong feminine role in her life. She is taken under the wing of the Boatwright sisters, three charismatic African-American women. With them, Lily learns strength and confidence, allowing her to grow into…

For the Love of Bees Introduction Paragraph: Lily Owens thought love would never find her after she accidently killed her mother, Deborah. After Deborah died, her father, T-Ray, looked to Lily to express his anger and hatred on the situation. Throughout the abuse, Lily looked to her housemaid, Rosaleen, for a mother-figure she knew didn't have. As Lily grew, she found an interest in discovering her mother’s past and why her mother was absent before she died. Lily left her hometown and…

Description and evolution of Clover: Clover is a motherly mare approaching middle life. She is loyal and maternal with every single animals living on the farm. She takes care of them. For example, at the beginning of the book, at Old Major’s speech, (p.1 and p.2) she made a wall around the ducklings that had lost their mother with her foreleg to keep them warm and they feel asleep. Unfortunately, she is not good with words and reading is a real problem for her out throughout the book. At…

Sue Grafton, a New York Times bestselling author, once said, "We all need to look into the dark side of our nature- that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds the pieces of us we're busy denying." People often repress the memories which they consider painful or dark. We try to keep others from learning of the dark things that we have done. Stanislaw Lem uses these dark memories in Solaris. Each guest on the planet Solaris has a visitor. Who are these…