The Secret Life of Bees

I have read from page 1-66 of “The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd. As I was reading, I was stunned about the similarity I found connecting this novel to “The Outsiders” by S.E Hinton. In “The Outsiders”, Ponyboy was having trouble at home with his older brother (who is basically his father since both of his parents died) Darry. After Darry slapped Ponyboy, Ponyboy had enough of the fighting between the two of them, so he decided to run away. He decided to take Johnny with him. Johnny…

She puts dead bees at the bottom of the container which resembles the inside of a person. These bees are completely dead and have been dead a while because it is said that “she must have swept the corners of her studio.” Although still dying because they are plucked from their life source, the rose petals are more alive than the bees but dying nonetheless. Therefore, the woman must feel her vitality slipping and this changes…

the silence over that by the good people” (Martin Luther King, Jr.). This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr has proven to carry throughout history and possibly well into the future as seen in the novels, Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Each author wrote a unique novel, with one thing in common, the main characters, along with the group of people they identify with, are oppressed by a higher authority that takes…

Is destruction a human quality or is destruction based on gender? The texts Pinhook written by Janisse Ray and the poem “The Bees” by Audre Lorde offer interesting commentaries on this thought. Through the creation of specific power hierarchies and using the binary of submission versus domination in the context of human interactions with nature and interpersonally, the authors provide criticism of inequalities they see in the society around them. Based on the both of the authors’ backgrounds in…

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, there are many meaningful quotes that apply to our everyday life. One of these quotes is “There is nothing perfect, there is only life.” What the author meant by putting this quote in the novel is that nothing in life is perfect, because that’s how life is. Nothing in life can or will ever be perfect, because that’s how life works. It is a simple quote, but it has a more meaning than it shows. The quote “There is nothing perfect, there is only life”…

In “Life in a Love”, Robert Brownings opens his poem with a line containing three feet, then the second and the third lines are two feet. The next two stanzas are composed of eight lines with no particular length and then the last three lines are the reverse…

Maya Angelou’s poem Phenomenal Woman reflects how women and men in society view others who do not physically appeal to the naked eye and how Maya angelou’s life contributed to the confidence she has now as a woman and by the end of the poem it shows all the confidence Angelou portrays, and how that confidence is reflected in her words. To better understand how Angelou came to see herself as a phenomenal woman, it may help to know a bit about her childhood and how it sculpted her. When Maya…

Mosquito and Nights: Into Dreams. In Bumbled you control Queen Garnet, a queen bee whose loyal subjects have all mysteriously vanished. After years of being pampered and attended upon, she is left to her own devices and forced to leave behind her life of luxury in order to gather nectar from flower and find her loyal subjects. Can Queen Garnet survive beyond the hive? The game’s art style is evocative of water colors and brush strokes. The art style is evocative of films such as The Tale of…

humanity’s imperfection, there is pain and suffering all around in society. However, although humans bring trouble to themselves with their flaws, they also possess the ability to handle unpleasantness and create a better world. In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees, the author, Sue Monk Kidd, illustrates how all of this is true. Monk Kidd’s novel focuses on a fourteen-year-old white girl named Lily Owens and shows how she is able to overcome her problems with the help of her new friends when…

Tsang 1 Mrs. Fenn ENG4U1-02 6th January, 2015 The Unbeatable Not every woman in the world owns human rights, and treated equally as men. Lots of women suffer a lot of pain through their life. But they do not surrender. Instead, they power up and face the problem together. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hassenin have a lot in common; they both contain the cruelty of being a woman; the challenges the female characters have to go through are…