Bee Movie Barriers

This playlist of 1960’s music tells the story of The Secret Life of Bees in chronological order. Several of the songs incorporated in the playlist are applicable to different events or characters in the story, as many of the events portrayed in it, such as running away, close relationships, and love have connections to multiple characters. This playlist will take you through a series of deep thought, emotion, and different connections to not only The Secret Life of Bees, but to life and culture in the 1960’s, and even today.

The novel, The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd, and the film, My Girl, share common themes. One of the common themes is coming-of-age. This means growing up and maturing through experiences and lessons learned. The main characters in the novel, and the film learn more as they grow up, and they learn from their consequences. Lily Owens, from the novel, and Vada Sultenfuss, from the movie, are very similar characters, and learn many of the same lessons.

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"New beekeepers are told that the way to find the elusive queen is by first locating her circle of attendants." (57) This quote is at the beginning of chapter three and not only foreshadows many things to come, but within the quote, two of the novel’s main metaphors are mentioned, bees and the queen, which is referring to society and a mother figure. Although this quote is largely interpreted as a metaphor for Lily looking for a new queen or mother figure, and perhaps August being that mother, I believe that it has another meaning as well. I believe that the Black Madonna also serves as a “queen” and mother figure to all the women in “The Secret Life of Bees.”

Likewise, the relationship that Juno has with her best friend, Pualie Bleeker, is confusing to say the least. Although Juno is having Bleeker’s baby, Juno is clearly unsure about the relationship with Bleeker. At one point she acts as if she does not want to define the relationship with Bleeker as romantic, but she finds herself being jealous when Bleeker tells her that he asked another girl out for prom. Evidently, this relationship between Juno and Bleeker is producing anxiety, and Juno getting emotionally close to Mark subsequently reduced the anxiety. Although the dyad relationship between Juno and Bleeker become stabilized by the process of triangling, Juno realizes that breaking the marriage between Mark and Vanessa is not what Juno ever wanted. Oddly, the relationship between Juno and Bleeker find its strength through the event of delivering a baby, this is one way in which this film’s characters do not support a key principle of Bowen Theory.

Books are like people, there is a wide variety and range of them, they can range from different types of vernacular to age appropriateness. Due to the wide range some books are eligible to be banned from a school district for any array of reasons. Books can be banned because of, profanity, societal issues or anything else that could possibly be thought of. The Secret Life of Bees should be taught in high school curriculum because it allows for readers to see how someone can overcome oppression of racism and various categories of abuse.

the two become close and they find themselves expressing their feelings to each other without

Setting of Novel: The Secret Life of Bees took place in the 1960s in Sylvan, South Carolina

One day, Lily and her younger sister Milly went to the carnival and on the way they passed by the zoo. This reminded Lily about how much Milly loved penguins.

The romantic relationship in this movie centers around two characters: Wade, also known as Deadpool, and Vanessa. Wade is a very lighthearted, stubborn, and attractive man with a rough past who will break the law and kill people to achieve what he believes is

The idea of having a secret life is enough to intrigue almost anyone.  With a title like The Secret Life of Bees, the reader cannot help but wonder what the secret is, and how it plays into the story.  As children, we all read books that talked about an escape to a mystical place that allowed the characters to escape from reality for a while.  In many cases, the reader viewed this as an escape they also desired, but most times could not fully relate to the character’s experiences.  Nonetheless, the setting of the story was intriguing.  Sue Monk Kidd uses setting to influence her characters by setting The Secret Life of Bees in the south, having it take place in the 1960’s, and by creating characters that depend on the setting for their happiness.

He transfers to the a new school conveniently the one that Laurel attends. After a while, Laurel and Sky begin to date. Laurel begins to act like her sister May and Sky. The truth unfolds and Laurel realizes that Sky on began to date her because of her sister. Later in their relationship Sky starts to like Laurel for Laurel and not for May but it's too late.

In addition to building the theme of good versus evil, the Bee Movie displays many American values. The most prominent theme that the movie supports is to follow your dreams and never give up on them. Barry does not want to work and make honey; he explains “I want to do my part for the hive, but I can’t do it the way they want me to” when he first talks to Vanessa, a

I think this because if Zachary came out about his homosexuality to Barbara, then she would probably have been more friendly toward Zachary. Barbara had thought “It was impossible to avoid him”, implying that he always there ready for her. Because of this, her friends advised her “to tell the creep to get lost.” Barbara too felt this way but everyone viewed her as Sunny, so she could not say this to Zachary. Barbara would have never thought Zachary was a creep if he came out to her about his sexuality.

“Bees don’t think about what is impossible. That’s why we can fly when everyone says we shouldn’t be able to” (The Bee Movie, 2007). One of the things that confines creative thinking is the belief that a system or structure or current way of doing things creates boundaries that should not/ought not to be crossed. That is similar to a non-permeable border – nothing from one side crosses to the other side. This non-porous thinking affects ideas, values, change and behavior to an extent that one becomes stagnant and dormant almost to the point of apathy.