Thelonious Monk

In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees, the author makes me admire Lily the most. Since the beginning of the novel, she was very loving and curious. When she first saw the huge flock of bees flying above her in her room, her first response wasn’t to swat or kill the bees, but to watch them and try to figure why, how, and where the bees were flying to. She always treated everyone and everything with respect and care. When Rosaleen had just moved in, T. Ray was very abusive, mean, and very cruel to…

August Boatwright and Rosaleen Daise To me the most admirable characters in The Secret Life of Bees are August Boatwright, the oldest sister and who collects the honey from the bee boxes, and Rosaleen Daise, Lily’s mother figure and who goes to Tiburon with her. I think that August is one of the most admirable characters because of how compassionate and caring she is. “Some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life. But lifting a…

From the time any living creature emerges into this world, their life becomes dedicated to growing and developing. Humans are especially suited to survive and endure the harsh attributes of life. Through each challenge that a person conquers, they become increasingly wiser. As life progresses, more and more challenges are brought on. As a result, as one grows older, they realize that they are capable of more than they’d ever thought. Set during the sixties in the fictional town of Sylvan,…

In Song of the Hummingbird, Graciela Limon illustrates how her life and the lives of other Mexica people were destroyed by the Spanish conquest and Cortés. A young monk, Father Benito Lara, is called to hear the last and only confession of an old woman named Huitzitzilin. Huitzitzilin had much to say about her life and the coming of Cortés and the Spanish which intrigued father Benito therefore he begins to listen to her stories everyday and writes down what she was saying to record her side…

there was much segregation and racism followed by major attempts to integrate the country. In the late 1900s there was many attempts to integrate and equalize the country. This is not only the setting by which the novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd takes place but also one of the major reasons that the story came to be. The racism during this time period in the book is one of the major reasons that Lily breaks Rosleen out of jail. For my project I decided to bake cupcakes that…

In the novel “The Invention of Wings” Sue Monk Kidd takes us back in time to nineteenth century Charleston, when the world was ruled by only the white men. This book focuses on two strong hearted and determined women: Hetty “Handful” and Sarah Grimke. Both girls have very different stories but want the same thing, to be free. For Hetty it is a little harder since she was both a female and a slave, unlike Sarah who was a child of privilege. These girls had their own obstacles that they tried so…

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…

but a true family stays together and this passage shows that after Lily and August make it through the truth they will have a stronger bond that no one could break, not even Lily’s father in the end. In this historical fiction novel book by Sue Monk Kidd, Secret Life of Bees shows that family is people who love you and stay with you through thick and thin, their the people you hold dearly to your hearts. This novel shows that through racism, love and beekeeping, you can form an unbreakable…

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is a novel takes place in 1964 down in South Carolina. A teenage white girl, Lily Owens, and the black woman who raised her, Rosaleen, broke out of jail and fled to Tiburon, South Carolina to escape her past. Throughout the book there are events that shape her: Lily lying about her identity, when she finds out about her mother, and when her father finds Lily. Lily and Rosaleen arrive in Tiburon after running from the police because of a situation that…

Adventure seemed to follow the characters in the novel The Secret Life of Bees. The author did a wonderful job of making a great story as well as important lessons, or themes. The progression throughout this piece of literature gradually display the lessons learned were important to understanding the events that occurred. In understanding the lessons some may have seemed more important or less important than others.Though all of the themes were important in their own way one in particular stood…