The Secret Life Of Bees

August’s maternal love has a big impact on Lily’s transformations as well as her femininity blossoms unlike under T. Ray’s care. With Lily’s memory of accidentally killing Deborah and the sound of the words breaking into her heart, August holds her close with love telling Lily that she could be loved: “But you’re not unlovable. Even if you did accidentally kill her, you are still the most dear, most lovable girl I know” (242). August tells Lily that everyone makes…...

The main character is Lily Owens. She is a 14-year-old white teenager. She cares about knowing the truth about her late mother, other than the many lies that her father T-Ray has told her. One of her goals was to be able to stand up to T-Ray and when she does, she feels like she has done something that she would have never done without the help of August. Now she can learn to love and forgive her mother even…...

In Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, The Secret Life of Bees, the reader is introduced to the fourteen year old Lily Owens. It’s 1964 in South Carolina when Lily is forced to come to terms with her confused memory of her mother’s death. As Lily travels to Tiburon with Rosaleen (her black housekeeper and nanny) in hopes to find the truth about her mother she develops into a young woman and learns the importance of female empowerment. Through the narrator Lily…...

In 1964 in South Carolina, a girl named Lily Melissa Owens, a fourteen years old who gets abused by her father, who also abused her mother before she died. In the book, the author discussed how masculine leadership isn’t always the right option, feminine power and matriarchy is always an equal choice to lead. These biases are extremely displayed in the plot of the novel. Most importantly The Secret Life of Bees is loaded with colorful. The main plot of…...

The irrationality of racism is displayed throughout Sue Kidd’s “The Secret Life of Bees”. Kidd displays all the characters with dignity. She demonstrates the different personalities of whites and blacks during this time. When Rosaleen goes to vote she is harassed for no reason by white men. Lily feels that all blacks are like Rosaleen; uneducated and laborers. Through experiences like these throughout the book, we see what it was truly like to live in the south and how children…...

In the book, The Secret Life of Bees the author Sue Monk Kidd portrays a strikingly relationship between Lily and Rosaleen by showing how Rosaleen is somewhat a mother figure to Lily. The author uses the sentence “Rosaleen had never had a child herself”, to be shown as a meaning of how although she does not have any children she treats/looks at Lily as if she was her own. Lily is motherless, and Rosaleen is the adult female in the…...

Everyone has a story that he carries around in his heart. Some are happy stories, some are stories of despair, and some are filled with hope. No matter what, these are bound to affect each bearer. In the novel The Secret Life of Bees, two of the main characters are followed by a story of the past. Lily Owens, a runaway fugitive, is haunted by a decade ago tragedy of witnessing her mother's death. The tragedy though, is that she…...

The irrationality of racism is displayed throughout Sue Kidd's 'The Secret Life of Bees'. Kidd displays all the characters with dignity. She demonstrates the different personalities of whites and blacks during this time. When Rosaleen goes to vote she is harassed for no reason by white men. Lily feels that all blacks are like Rosaleen; uneducated and laborers. Through experiences like these throughout the book we see what it was truly like to live in the south and how children…...

“One is not born but rather becomes a woman”- Simone De Beauvoir. In Sue Monk Kidd’s, The Secret Life of Bees, Lily Owens engages on a life changing expedition to make sense of her difficult predicament. Lily shows that she is a dynamic character as she matures in this coming of age novel. Lily portrays growth throughout the novel with her behavior with T. Ray, her prejudice view on the people who surround her, and her poor judgement about her…...

In Sue Monk Kidd’s novel The Secret Life of Bees, the theme of feminism often reoccurs. Throughout the novel, Kidd reveals the aspects and importance of feminine power and matriarchy versus the typical role of masculine leadership and authority. The teachings of Carl Jung, a philosopher who believes that society would be better by emphasizing the importance of feminine values versus the masculine, deeply influences Kidd’s writings. These principles are greatly displayed in the plot and theme of The Secret…...

The classic tale of the hero's journey can be recognized in almost every situation. It is not only apparent through daily life and historical events, but in this circumstance, a fictional novel, as well. As an epic voyage, it can be recognized in the vast majority of books throughout the course of history. One specific example where it is carefully and intricately exhibited is in Sue Monk Kidd's novel, The Secret Life of Bees, in which a young woman's search…...

Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, The Secret Life of Bees, is greatly influenced by her own personal childhood growing up in a small town known as Sylvester, Georgia. Her environment of life growing up carried much impact on the contents and controversies played throughout her novel. As Sue Monk claims, “My job is to imagine deeply, not recount my history.” She powerfully reveals inspiring divine female power in her famous novel The Secret Life of Bees. Sue Monk Kidd grew up…...

When I was younger, scraped knees were a daily thing and whenever that happened I would always run to the most important person in my life for help: my mom. To a child, a parent is someone that can care for and love them. Children start their attachments during infancy. Moreover does a person have to be biologically related to be a parent to a child, and does it affect the relationship to a child’s understanding. Of the many different…...