Brick On Bees Poem Analysis

When I first read through Nathanael Johnson’s article discussing the fall of bee populations in relation to a catastrophic unearthly demise, I kept an open mind. With my personal opinion about the bee crisis stifled, I read on to see if Johnson could aptly convince me of his argument. Unsurprisingly, he failed.

The honey bee population is going down, and while most people think it doesn't really matter or just don’t notice it, they should because it is a very big problem. I think the other people should try and change that. If bees die then it will not be good, at all. In this persuasive piece of writing, I will be trying to make people rethink about the bee population, and what it could potentially do to the human race.

The fictional novels “The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd and “The Chosen” by Chaim Potok are coming of age stories about young protagonists. “The Secret Life of Bees” depicts the life of Lily Owens as she runs away from her abusive father, T. Ray, with her black caregiver, Rosaleen. Lily is seeking a connection to her dead mother while establishing new relationships in a new town called Tiburon, SC. Similarly, ‘The Chosen” portrays the journey of Danny Saunders as he breaks away from the path paved for him while coping with the lack of a father-son relationship. Within both novels, “The Secret Life of Bees” and “The Chosen”, the lack of parental figures in both Lily and Danny’s lives causes both protagonists to seek others to fill in these positions as seen when Lily relies on Rosaleen, the Black Madonna, and the Boatwright sisters and Danny seeks support from Reuven’s family.

Sue Monk Kidd has carefully crafted a book rich in symbolism with special emphasis on bees. Each section’s heading features the inner workings of this communal society (Emanuel, Catherine, B. 3). An epigraph at the beginning relating to bees sets the tone for the each chapter. The first chapter epigraph states: The Queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness.” Man and Insects.

In the novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, Lily Owens discovers the deeper meaning of home, family, love, and choosing what matters, through a long journey of lies and hope. After experiencing cruelties, prejudice, and escaping from the authorities, Lily set out on an adventure to find out the truth of what happened to her mother.

The documentary called "More than Honey" directed by Markus Imhoof released on June 12, 2013, takes the viewers and explains why bees are necessary, what they do and most importantly what is causing them to die. This film takes the spectator to a much deeper understanding of what bees are like living in their natural habitat on a daily. Also how they are at risk of catching diseases and parasites. The strongest area of this documentary was logos they really enforced and expanded on the fact that bees are essential to growing fruit but they didn’t use much emotion though when they did it was very effective last it fell short on ethos.

Lily’s rebellion against her father illuminates the importance of the road of dependence to independence. As a bildungsroman, The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd, heavily focuses on the independence of an abused girl growing up in a time of feminine oppression and racial discrimination. For example, although Lily possesses a great ambition for literature, her father portrays contempt for it and thinks of college as “a waste of money for girls, even if they did, score the highest number a human being can get on their verbal aptitude test”(Kidd 15). Lily grudgingly respects her wish of her father to not read or bring up a conversation concerning education and tolerates an ill-bearing father. However, after Rosaleen and Lily become arrested,

It is very important that the correct historical accuracy is utilized when writing. I think this because if the piece fails to be accurate, then people may get the wrong idea of the meaning trying to be portrayed in the writing. If the written information is false, then the truth may seem as if it is being covered up. This may make it feel like the author is trying to hide the truth or is fleeing the truth of the real history.

1. Considering the title, it's no surprise that bees are a fundamental part of this novel. I like to think that in the beginning of the novel, when Lily captures a bee in the jar, the bee represents her mother, Deborah. Later in the novel, we learn that Deborah falls in love with T-Ray, which could be the part where the jar traps the bee inside. When Lily opens the jar so the bee could leave, the bee doesn't, which could represent Deborah when she could have left T-Ray but she didn't because she was pregnant. When the bees finally left the jar, it represents how Deborah finally escapes and ran off to Tiburon. Of course, this is not the only reason the bees are important in the novel. When Lily runs away from home with Rosaleen, they come

“Creating unique characters is something every fiction author has to focus on because it can make the difference in writing a book that resonates with the audience…” (“5 Tips for”). In this case, in Kidd’s novel, The Secret Life of Bees, the author implements literary devices, such as, indirect characterization, symbolism, and allusions, in her writing. Moreover, the literary devices applied generate reader’s feelings toward the characters.

This poem is a narrative of a woman, talking about how she is repeatedly asked where her secret lies, because of the confidence she wears, and the power she has over a room of people. She states it because of things such as the stride of her walk, the span of her arms, and then goes on to state “I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.” The conflicts being dramatized are how despite she isn’t “pretty” or a “fashion model’s size”, she is able to hold the attention of a room with grace, convey power and beauty in everything she does, and be completely confident in the person she is. She is being asked this by men and women wherever she goes, because the power of her entering a room has men swarming around her “ a hive of honey bees”

Central Idea: Now it’s important to recognize that bees are not just a meme, but that if bees do die out, humanity could be severely affected.

Sean Connery stated: “Some age, others mature”. In Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, literary devices such as indirect characterization, symbolism and allusions are displayed. Throught Kidd’s novel, these literary devices help to present to the reader that Lily has undergone changes, developing her into a more mature character over the course of the novel.

SP: To inform my classmates about the importance of honey bees, hardships of the bee business, why the bees are dying, and why it matters

In this short clip, the film Akeelah and the Bee demonstrates a couple verbal and nonverbal cues that display liking, affection, and involvement while also showing others like hostility and dislike. The audience can observe a good example of cues involving liking in the relationship of Akeelah and Javier, and also observe good examples of hostility between Akeelah and Georgia and mostly, Akeelah and Dylan.