Seret Life Of Bees Book Report

Ray lying to Lily about her mom is a very big scene in the book, because this is mentioned quite often throughout the novel and it appears in about almost every chapter. This connects to Lily coming of age because when T. Ray is lying to her throughout the book, she starts to catch onto it, because she is getting older and she is starting to mature more. She also starts to figure out more things about her mother through Rosaleen and the Boatwright sisters: “My mother died when I was 4 years old” (Kidd 4). Lily is coming of age because she now understands that what she did wasn’t good and she wants to take it back. It also relates because Lily is starting to realize that her father is not trustworthy and he might be lying: “My first and only memory of my mother was the day she died” (5). Lily then had to figure out how to survive without her in her life. Lily never really knew anything about her mother because she shot her, but she always remembered what happened on that day. After this happened she always bugged T. Ray to tell her about her mom: “The day she died was December 3rd 1954” (5). Lily is coming of age during this because she has to learn to live without a mom. This part connects to the thesis because Lily starts to think that some of the things he say’s might not be true. She starts to realize right from

Lily longed for love and attention, something her father and caregiver, Rosaleen couldn't seem to give her. The reality was that Lily lived in a time that segregation was intact and John Fitzgerald Kennedy was trying to launch rockets to the moon. The author used symbolism, for example space, to show the lost nature of Lily’s character. “Fourteen and my life went spinning off into a whole new orbit” (1). Lost in thought, Lily always was thinking about what would happen if her mother was around. She was forced to follow her father's orders or she would be hit or shoved. This made her want to create as much distance between her and her father as possible. On the back of her mother's picture it said Tiburon, South Carolina. Maybe in Tiburon she could have a better life and bring her closer to her mother? Lily and Rosaleen hatched a plan to escape. As they left town they were confronted by a group of white men. Rosaleen spat on their shoes in protest of her rights. Then she was beaten up and sent to jail. T. Ray (Lily’s father) was furious! At this pivotal moment Lily knew she must leave. Confidence grew throughout Lily, she got Rosaleen out of the hospital and left to Tiburon. Before she left she gave T. Ray a note saying, “Dear T. Ray don’t bother looking for me. Lily P.S. People who tell lies like you should rot in hell” (42). This is a major turning point in this book because Lily had never stood up to her father like that.

Lily explained how T. Ray was against reading because it would give her ideas about college. According to him, college was a waste of money for girls. From an outside perspective, a reader can see that it was not because T. Ray disliked reading; it was because he did not want her to leave him like her mother. When Lily got fed up with T. Ray, she had run away. After a couple months of searching, T. Ray had finally found Lily in the same place where her mother ran away to.

She is entrapped with the ideas floating in her mind as one can see here. “That night I lay in bed… for the first ten thousand years”. She also has an abusive dad who is taking all of his anger out on his daughter which consisted of beating and kicking her as punishment. She is so fed up with this action, She decides to do something about it. This leads to the second force or burden that she deals with, Lily leaving her abusive dad at such a young age. She constantly mentions that she wants to leave but her dad is resilient to her not leaving.“Heavens to betsy, what's all this talk about you leaving? Nobody wants you to leave, Lily, till your good and ready”. Once she is fed up, Lily runs away with her nanny Rosaleen behind her dad's back. The Boatrights were bee farmers who were very comforting and nice when taking them in. While she is running away from her dad, the real reason she is leaving is to find answers about what happened that night with her mother. Her father eventually finds where she is and tracks her down and beats her. While she is receiving a beating her father tells her that she was the one that killed her mother, but the shooting was on accident. Her father at that time realizes that he was taking his anger out on her for no reason and that she is still her daughter and didn’t deserve it. One big thing holding her back it the racism that she encounters

After staying in jail for a while Lily was bailed out by her father T. Ray. As they are leaving, they continue to talk in a heated discussion until they reach home, where lily runs to her room. T. Ray come back a little later saying “Don’t you leave this room, you hear me? You sit here and think about me coming back and dealing with you. Think about it real hard” (Pg. 38).

Her thought and choice was motivated by her father, who might simply abuse her in the event if she did not take off. When she liberated Rosaleen and began for the run she adjusted to the harsh living conditions, for example, washing in a creek. This change was brought on of her abusive father who never thought how she felt when he hurt her. Basically, as Lily proceeds onward all throughout the novel, she feels and adjusts to changes in her diverse surroundings. Next, Zach and Lily were working on the supers that they brought in. They ran twelve extractor loads through the system. The whole time when Lily was working with Zach she thought about how difficult and mixed up people got when it came to love. Then she started thinking about her relationship with Zach. Kidd writes, “I myself, for instance. It seemed like I was now thinking of Zach forty minutes out of every hour, Zach, who was impossibility. That’s what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love.” (pg. 133). Basically, this shows that Lily is the character whom has changed the most in the novel. While driving with Zach in the honey truck, Lily sees

In the book, Lily is a fourteen-year-old girl who doesn't have a mother figure in her life, because of her mother dying, at an early age Lily is left with her unloving and irresponsible father, T-Ray, this is relevant to the book because throughout the book we see how Lily changed through having the correct and

As you know Lily is my favorite character in this book for many reasons but one of them is because she’s mature and wise given she’s just a child. Some reasons i think this about her character is because in chapters 2 and 3 Lily decides to runaway from home and rescue Rosaleen from the hospital and save her from going back to jail. She comes up with her plan and makes her move. Most kids “runaway” from home when they’re children but not like Lily did. She had found a home to live in with the Boatwright sisters and ended up having an amazing life. Although this was risky and

Lily Owens has had multiple events in her life go wrong but those incidents have shaped her into the forgiving and understanding young women she became at the end of the book. Lily’s “father”, T. Ray, has treated her as a doormat since she was the cause of her mother’s death. It doesn't help that Lily looks like a replica of Deborah, her mother. On pages 24, 25 and the top of 26 it shows how T. Ray punished her because of his superstitions about what she was doing and who she was with. Even though no one was with her. In addition to that gruesome situation as mentioned before, Lily’s mom’s death. Deborah Fontanel Owens was shot accidentally by her four year old daughter. And on pages 290 to the end you can see that ever since that day T. Ray

Secret Life of Bees is a historical fiction novel by Sue Monk Kidd. The novel focuses on, and is narrated by Lily Owens, a white fourteen year old girl. Lily changes throughout the beginning, middle, and end of the book. Three problems Lily faces in the book is racism, her relationship with her mother, and her relationship with her father.

In addition, the second guideline to be labeled as quest is to consist of a place to go. Of course Lily wants to escape her abusive father and his harsh torment. But more importantly, she wants to learn more about her mother, getting no help from her father who refuses to speak on the subject. She was so young when her mom died that the only connection she has to her is a box of her old things, one of the items in the box being a picture of the black Virgin Mary with “Tiburon, South Carolina” on the back. Namely, Lily becomes interested in going there because she wants to find out more about her other. Although she does travel to Tiburon, she is more specifically looking for August Boatwright’s house. She is the woman who created the picture

Lily felt unwanted, like she didn’t belong. The only person that she felt connected to since her mom died was Rosaleen. Lily said herself about Rosaleen “I was the only one who knew that despite her sharp ways, her heart was more tender than a flower skin and she loved me beyond

Bees, honey, the Black Madonna, the 1960’s, the power of women, what do all of these things have in common? All of these things are what one would think of when reading the book, The Secret Life of Bees. Those who have read The Secret Life of Bees know that it is not a book about different kinds of bees and how bees live their lives, but it is a book about a poorly treated girl named Lily who runs away from home. She runs away to Tiburon, South Carolina with her friend Rosaleen. While in South Carolina, she makes friends with three black women who make honey, a black man named Zach, who she comes to love, and a group of Catholics known as The

Ray and as a new home for her and Rosaleen. Throughout the first three chapters Lily illustrates what it is like to live with T. Ray, once mentioning how she would, “… take four or five centuries to tell her [mother] about the special misery of living with T. Ray” (3) should she meet her mother in heaven. Lily’s life with T. Ray is filled with physical and emotional pain, she has no friends and Lily feels that Rosaleen is the only person who loves her. When the opportunity to run away presents itself to Lily, she takes it and knows that she wants to go to Tiburon because of family ties. Once Lily and Rosaleen arrive at the Boatwright sisters’ house, they are quickly accepted. Lily knows that her mother must have ties to the pink house because of the resemblance between her mother’s picture of the Virgin Mary and Our Lady of Chains found in May, June and August’s

After Lily's encounter with T. Ray back in the honey house. Lily confronts T. Ray outside as he tries to leave with a question. What she wants to know is the same question that has plagued her mind since it occurred. Was it her? When T. Ray explains to Lily that she was indeed the cause of her mother's death, she is finally able to forgive herself and her mother for what happened. This is an imperative part of the story as this finally allows lily to forgive herself.