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When looking through book titles, somehow people’s eyes just jump to a specific title without any rhyme or reason. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd was the title that jumped out at me. I knew that there is no way that the book is actually about the lives of bees. I wanted to find out what it really meant. I read that it was set in South Carolina and was about a 14 year-old girl named Lily. So I thought that I could comprehend it easily from a voice of a girl around my age. I could relate…

Growing Up Is Always Tough Growing up is rough on a lot of teenagers, boys andq girls. This idea is present in the story The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. The main Character Lily Owens lives in South Carolina on a peach farm with her father T. Ray who is angry at the world. Lily’s life takes a turn for the worst when her African-American nanny is imprisoned because she wanted to vote due to the signing of the Civil Rights Act. Lily and Rosaleen flee from the hospital in order to keep…

In the novel, The Secret Life Of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd, Lily Owens is a teenage girl that decides to run away from her abusive father and moves to Tiburon. She experiences a journey where she tries to learn her mother’s history and more about her mother’s death. South Carolina to search for someone who she believes to know her deceased mother. Lily learns to forgive others and herself in order to become independent and live her life the way she wants to live it. At the beginning of the novel,…

The Secret Life of Bees: Growing up Lily During adolescence you begin to mature or grow more. People grow through experiences and challenges. In the Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Lily also matured and grew up during the book. Three examples of how Lily matured and grew are becoming understanding, hard working and independence. “I turned my pillow over and over for the coolness, thinking about May and her wall and what the world had come to that a person needed something like that” (Pg 98…

The Secret Life of Bees is an emotional story that tells a tale of a girl who lives with the regret of accidentally killing her mother. She now lives with her angry emotionally reserved father. Lily’s only mother figure and real friend is her black made, Rosaline. This story is all about forgiveness, and the challenges of racism at that time Secret Life of Bees is told in the form of a book and a movie. They both tell the story in different unique ways, while keeping the general plot the same.…

Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd portray racism, the importance of good lessons and parent child relationships in order to teach lessons and to be strong to defend or for a…

setting in her novel, The Secret Life of Bees and the house is still standing. However, her family presently resides elsewhere (Morreale NP). As a…

(TS) In Sue Monk Kidd’s novel The Secret Life of Bees, August Boatwright helps reunite her sisters and her community by using the faith in the Black Madonna as a way to improve the quality of their lives. (PS) The faith within the Black Madonna improved Lily Owens’ and the Boatwright’s lives because they had to find a spiritual mother within themselves. (SS) Since August practiced the philosophy of the Black Madonna, she tells Lily, “You have to find a mother inside yourself” (Kidd 288). (SS)…

In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the time period is set when the Civil Rights Act was just put into place. This time period affects the way Lily views, racism and her opinions on segregation and inequality. This novel discusses real world problems that happened back in the '60s and are even occurring to this day. Lily Owens lived at a peach farm in North Carolina with her abusive father and black housekeeper Rosaleen. When Rosaleen gets arrested and the abuse is getting…

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, demonstrates the primary character flourish throughout the novel and face realities in 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement. A fourteen-year-old girl named Lily Owens born on a peach farm in Sylvan, South Carolina, lives with an abusive father, T. Ray. When Lily’s mother died, her black nanny, Rosaleen, took on the role as her fill in mother. On Rosaleen’s way to obtain her voters card she is sentenced to imprisonment. After T. Ray had mentioned…