Chapter Summary Of The Book 'The Bee': Questions And Answers

The film Akeelah and the Bee is about an eleven-year-old African American girl living in a low-income area in South Los Angeles. Akeelah and the people around her discover she has a talent for spelling which ultimately leads her to the National Spelling Bee. Despite her mother’s objections about the Bee, Akeelah doesn’t give up her goal in wanting to win the National Spelling Bee. She finds help in her community and the many people around her including a mysterious teacher named Dr. Larabee. As the whole community cheers her on Akeelah makes it to the National Spelling Bee and completes her goal by winning the Bee but not without overcoming her insecurities and the many negative obstacles in her way (Atchison, Akeelah and the Bee). Throughout the movie Akeelah is able to overcome all the challenges put in her way with the help of the relationships she makes within her community, her capabilities and willingness and her determination in reaching her goals, Akeelah becomes a figure for her community that positive things can happen in tough situations if you remain focused and determined.

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.

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.

The secret of bees, my opinions were questioned more than once. Several of the statements I completely agreed with, while others I disagreed strongly.

There are plenty of great books published every year, however there are few that become classics. Classics are the few great books that everyone should read at least once. One of those books is The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.

According to the National Runaway Safeline, between 1.6 and 2.8 million teenagers run away from home every year. Each of these teenagers has different reasons for running away, but lots often run away because of parental abuse. Lily Owens is no different from these runaway teens. In the Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the reader meets Lily,14 year old girl searching for answers to her mother's death. When her father refuses to provide her with answers and continually abuses her, Lily has no choice but to seek answers on her own. Lily follows in her mother's footsteps looking for answers and runs away to do so. In the process Lily finds three women who her mother had come across and forms a bond with them in order to find answers

Hour of the Bees By: Lindsay Eagar is a head turning, heart filled, and family loving book. This book keeps people turning the pages and wanting to read more. In the 360 paged mind blowing novel, it keeps people reading this realistic fiction mystery novel. People will not want to miss this book for several reasons.

Bees have a secret life we don’t know anything about.” (Kidd 148). In the book August told Lily about how bees live and how the queen bee lays eggs that become worker bees later on. This made Lily think about herself and her life living without a mother. She realized that the queen bee is like a mother to all the thousands of worker bees in the hive. This realization makes Lily understand that even though she didn’t grow up with her mother, doesn’t mean that she could not have a motherly figure to love her and take care of her like her mother would have. Along with the queen bee becoming a symbol of her mother, later in the story, Lily understands that the statue of Mary in the sisters home, also symbolizes a mother to thousands. Understanding this helps Lily accept and deal with the trauma of her mother's death and heal her unhealed

Today I will be discussing a about Jim Crow and the Secret Life of Bees. Jim Crow was the name of a racial caste system which happened between 1887 and the mid 1960’s. Jim Crow had many unfair laws that separated whites and blacks and these laws didn’t not let whites and blacks drink from the same water fountains, go to the same schools, eat at the same restaurants, etc. Whites mistreated black people because they taught they were cursed servants and white people were the superior race. In the novel of The Secret Life of Bees, the author puts the setting and place in the 1960’s in Sylvan, South Carolina and Tiburon, South Carolina were the Civil Rights Act had been recently signed by President Johnson. Lily who is a white fourteen years old

There were many the habitats, inhabitants, and habits in the Bee Movie. I’ll hit on the biggest ones. It started in the beehive, which would be a habitat. In the beehive live bees, the main character Barry lived there, those would be the inhabitants. A habit the bees had was working together to make honey, each bee had their own unique job in the hive, but each small job helped with the big process of making the honey. Another habit they had in the hive was keeping one job until they died. They all were very organized with the way the hive ran.

“The Secret Life of Bees” is about a girl named Lily Owens who lived in misery with her abusive and neglectful father T. Ray in South Carolina on a peach farm. There are a plethora of lies and secrets throughout the novel. Lily runs away from her abusive father, helps Rosaleen escape from jail, and they hitchhiked to Tiburon South Carolina to find out about the secret to Lily’s mother’s past.

This post will be broken down into two parts due to the subcatigories of bees (Honeybees and bumblebees). This post is only about HONEYBEES. This list will include honeybees from Europe and other continents, so don’t expect to see all of these bees unless you travel a lot!

Far away in a quiet forest there was a bees nest and a wasps nest. The bees couldn't fly at this time because they were too big so there hive was on the ground. There neighbors the wasps would bully them all the time because they couldn't fly therefor Larry the bee had an idea. Larry ran up to the top of the beehive shrilled to tell Queen Bee.

are more wasps, worldwide and locally, than there are bees. To add to the confu-

There once was a city that was drained of cheer and light. The monstrous humans have come in and modified everything until it turned into a grey gloomy world. All the creatures wondered if the world would ever be enlighten like it once was.