The Secret Life Of Bees Book Report

They live in a bright pink house, a very feminine color. The woman in the household have names pertaining to seasons. “These names span a time frame of both sowing and reaping, spring to late summer.” (Emanual, Catherine B. 2). Appropriately, August (a mature season) champions and befriends Lily providing the wisdom and security she so desperately needs. She gently guides Lily but allows her to find her own way. Under Augusts’ wing, Lily finally finds a place to nest. She

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is a book discussing the internal strife of a young white girl, in a very racist 1960’s south. The main character, Lily Owens, faces many problems she must overcome, including her personal dilemma of killing her own mother in an accident. Sue Monk Kidd accurately displays the irrationality of racism in the South during mid- 1960's not only by using beautiful language, but very thoroughly developed plot and character development. Kidd shows the irrationality of racism through the characters in her book, The Secret Life of Bees and shows that even during that time period, some unique people, were able to see beyond the heavy curtain of racism that separated people from each

My novel selection is “The Secret Life of Bees.” The novel was written by Sue Monk Kidd in 1997-2001, near Charleston, South Carolina. I choose this novel due to its nature. The set is in 1964. The Civil Rights Act and segregation were at its peak. The story is of a young white girl named Lily. She lives on a peach orchard with her emotionally detached father. Her mother died when she was four years old. She comes to find love in a series of strong African-American women. One of the first influential women to love her was her caretaker. Her name was Rosaleen and she had worked the fields for her father. “Rosaleen had worked for us since my mother died. My daddy- who I called T. Ray because “Daddy” never fit him- had pulled her out of the peach orchard, where she’d worked as one of his pickers.” (print) Lily then finds the Boatright sisters. She finds the Boatright sisters after raveling to find the “Black Mary” she found on a photograph in her mother’s belongings. Lily felt locating the lady in the photograph would solve the mysteries

"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.”

Picture being the cause of a life-changing event including the loss of the woman who gave birth to you ‘The Secret Life of Bees’ was by Sue Monk Kidd. The main characters are Lily Owens, T Ray Owens, Rosaleen Daise, and August and June Boatwright. It is 1964 in Sylvan, South Carolina, and Lily Owens, a fourteen-year-old white girl, lives on a peach farm with her father, T. Ray, who is both neglectful and abusive. There are Bees that seem to be at home with her, often visit Lily. Lily Owens takes part in on the desperate search for answers about her mother lead to the discovery of how powerful love can transcend through a strong female community, overcoming racism and how a tiny bee may teach bigger life lessons.

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

In Sue Monk Kidd’s novel The Secret Life of Bees there is a psychological allegory present, which is proven by the characters in the story. The psychological allegory is based on the theory by Sigmund Freud, this theory states that in the human brain there is three major psychological portions, the id, the ego, and the super ego. The id is the portion that induces selfishness and hatred and other “bad” actions, the super ego is the opposite of the id, putting others before ones self and caring for others, the ego is the perfect balance between the two and is almost always the psyche portrayed be the protagonist. In this novel it is T. Ray who illustrates the id, through his bad treatment of Lily, his lack of

Written by Sue Monk Kidd the novel "The Secret Life of Bees" traces the life of a 14 year old girl searching for love and care. The story begins in a peach farm in Sylvan, South Carolina but travels toward and ends in Tiburon, South Carolina. The city of Tiburon unleashes many truths that lily has wondered throughout her life. The town brings her what she has been longing for since she was a child.

The novel “Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd depicts the life of a fourteen-years-old white girl Lily Owen. Lily lives in Sylvan, South Carolina with her father, Terrance Ray (T. Ray) Owen, who is negligent and abusive. Lily holds a very dangerous secret, believing that she shot and killed her mother, Deborah Owen, when Lily was four years old. Lily’s unclear memory of the unfaithful incident continues to worry her; she desires to know more about her mother after her death. The novel open where Lily lies on her bed, patiently waiting for bees that live inside the wall of her bedroom to appear and fly around as they normally do every night. His father T-Ray does not in any way believe her story about bees. However, Rosaleen, Lily’s black nanny and housekeeper believe her, but think Lily is a fool for trying to gather the bees in a jar. There are some ways in which Lily has grown and also some ways in which she is also still a child throughout the novel.

The novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, is about a teenage girl named Lily who lives in South Carolina during the 1960s. Throughout the story, Lily struggles with the guilt of killing her mother Deborah as a child. This guilt leads Lily to run away from her father and go looking for any information she can find about her mother. She comes across the Boatwrights who know about Deborah and tell Lily about her life. August steps in as the mother figure in her life and helps her blossom into a bright young woman. Much of this information is a surprise to Lily. Lily goes through changes mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Sue Monk Kidd uses literary devices to show the guilt Lily feels. Kidd uses the techniques of simile, imagery,

“The Secret Life of Bees” by: Sue Monk Kidd was a book that really showed me how African American people were actually treated in the early 1960s. How they could actually be beaten just for not apologizing to a white person. They were treated very cruel by some people, but, not by all people. Lily Owens was a young girl in the year 1964; who lived in South Carolina. She loved African American people. She loved how interesting they were, and she adored the stories they had to tell. Her best friend was an African American woman who worked on her father’s peach farm. That woman’s name was Rosaleen, and she helped Lily feel better all the time when she was sad. Especially, when her father abused her. Lily thought Rosaleen was her only friend, until she ran away to a place called

Sue monk kidd wrote a book called secret life of bees published on november 8, 2001 . The book was about a girl named lily and how she wants to know more about her mom and wants to run from her father T. ray. In the book their is a well developed character named June boatwright. June was going to have a wedding and her fiance left her at the alter. August , sister of June took care of a little girl named Debra Owens during the time of segregation. Since june was born during this dark time I believe that she distrusted every white person that she didn't know because most were racist during this time. Due to the segregation and the distrust she had it was hard for her to trust white people like debras daughter lily and for her to gain confidence to marry again.

The Secret Life of Bees written by Sue Monk Kidd, is a Bildungsroman fiction novel published in 2002. This story takes place in Sylvan and Tiburon, South Carolina, where a 14-year old girl named Lily Owens lives a lonely and difficult life with her father, T-Ray. In order to escape her past life and haunting memories of her mother’s death, Lily and her caregiver escape to another town in South Carolina, where for the first time in her life she feels like she can call this place her home. Kidd develops the plot through internal and external conflicts of Rosaleen to illustrate how people’s lives are more complex than they appear.

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.

In the 1960s United States started some problems. They treated color people different from whites. In the book “The Secret Life of Bees” the author talked about the civil right which is related to Jim Crow that happen in the 1960s.