Quest to Find Her Mother in The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

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 for acceptance and the truth becomes a heart-warming chronicle.

The essence of the relationship between a mother and child is a mutual ascendency in regards to identity. Children are subject to an instinctive longing for a mother. It is the mother’s influence that guides them in their process of discovering all the realities the world posses and in that processing discerning their identity. Conversely when a woman becomes a mother the presence of her child causes her to evaluate and develop her identity under the pretense of motherhood. Paula Nicolson touches

In Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, the main character Lily feels misplaced in society because of her lack of a relationship with her mother. Whilst reflecting about her life after the death of her mother Lily expresses “I was worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one,” emphasizing how she feels incommodious due to her lack of a maternal figure (Kidd 9). Having yet to elicit her authentic identity

(431). These are the words of Lily Owens in the novel The Secret Life of Bees which was written by Sue Monk Kidd. The story is about a fourteen-year-old girl named Lily who lives on a peach farm in South Carolina with her abusive father, T.Ray. Throughout the novel, Lily had shaped her life around her mother’s death. Searching for answers about her mother, Lily, and her mother-like figure Rosaleen escaped to Tiburon, South Carolina to find the Boatwright sisters. During this journey, Lily and Rosaleen

Title of Novel: The Secret Life of Bees Author: Sue Monk Kidd Year Written: November 8, 2001 Author’s Nationality: American Type of Novel: Bildungsroman and/or Historical Fiction Setting of Novel: The Secret Life of Bees took place in the 1960s in Sylvan, South Carolina Protagonist: Lily Melissa Owens Antagonist: Terence (T. Ray) Brief Plot Summary: Lily Melissa Owens, a fourteen-year-old white girl, lives on a peach farm with her father, T. Ray, who is both neglectful and abusive. Lily has

Sue Monk Kidd’s “The Invention of Wings” is a riveting tale of equality, the struggle of freedom, and friendship. The story revolves around Sarah Grimke and her slave Handful that she was given on her eleventh birthday. From a young age, Sarah begins to understand the consequences of slave inhumanity and this disturbs her daily life. After watching a slave being punished, she was left scarred and develops a speech impediment. As Sarah proceeds through her life, she comes across important life occasions

Bildungsroman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman (German pronunciation: [ˈbɪldʊŋs.ʁoˌmaːn]; German: "novel of formation, education, culture"),[a] novel of formation, novel of education,[2] or coming-of-age story (though it may also be known as a subset of the coming-of-age story) is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age),[3] in which