Secret Life

sixty percent of children suffer from neglect, sixteen point six from physical abuse and seven point one percent from emotional abuse in their household. Sue Monk Kidd portrays fourteen year old Lily Owens to have an abusive father in her novel The Secret Life Of Bees. Lily’s father T-Ray is abusive in many ways but he chooses to manipulate her more than anything else. He keeps important information about her deceased mother away from her, he forces her to sit on grits for hours at a time until her knees

The concept of innocence plays a very big role in the book The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd. Lily and Zach’s love story represents innocence perfectly. After spending a lot of time together and becoming great friends, Lily starts to realize her feelings for him may lean towards more than just friendship. “The whole time we worked, I marveled at how mixed up people got when it came to love. I myself, for instance. It seemed like I was now thinking of Zach forty minutes out of every hour,

In The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd, August is a strong role model in that she always uses language that is suitable for someone like Lily whereas T. Ray has a foul mouth. August is a strong role model for Lily because she uses appropriate language for and around Lily. When Lily is feeling unlovable and is explaining to August how her mother passes, August tells Lily how she is loved by saying comforting words like these: “But you’re not unlovable [...] you are still the most dear, most

Most of the time you will find, that water with a little bit of honey in it, tends to taste a whole lot better than blood. In the beautifully composed piece of literature, The Secret Life of Bees, we follow the struggles of Lily Owens, as she realizes the true meaning of family and the transcendent power of love. The brilliant author behind this artwork, Sue Monk Kidd, brings forth the hardships of a motherless child with an abusive father, and the Negro community of 1964. I highly recommend this

novel, The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd, a fourteen-year-old girl Lily Owens along with her black housekeeper Rosaleen, escape to a town in South Carolina called Tiburon after Rosaleen got thrown into prison after insulting a group of racists. There, they meet a trio of black beekeeping sisters who take them in and teach Lily about beekeeping. Through these experiences, Lily has discovered many things. But these could not be shown to her without three influentials in her life. The three

The secret life of Bees, is about a fourteen year old girl named Lily who is White. She lives with her father T. Ray who is a peach farmer in Sylvan, South Carolina.In the first chapter Lily is waiting for the bees that live in the walls of her bedroom, as they do every night. T. Ray does not believe her story about the bees, so she decides to collect the bees in a jar to prove him wrong. Rosaleen her nanny and housekeeper is the one who looks after Lily. Lily remembers her last memory of her mother

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is a novel about a young girl named Lily Owens who comes of age caused by many difficulties and obstacles in her life, such as living with the constant reminder that she killed her own mother. Throughout the novel there are many examples of racism, but she learns to overcome that and see everyone equally. What attracted me to the novel was the plot of the story and the conflict between Lily and her father. What kept me engaged were the many conflicts that

According to Lily “People who think dying is the worst thing don’t know anything about life.” (2) The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd is a coming-of-age written novel. Sue Monk Kidd also wrote other books such as, the Mermaid Chair, and the Invention of wings. This novel took place in 1964, in South Carolina in two towns called, Sylvan and Tiburon, during the civil rights movement. The protagonist and narrator of this novel is Lily Owens, she is 14 and is rejected by her parents. T. Ray Owens

The book by the name of The Secret Life of Bees written by Sue Monk Kidd is about a white girl named Lily Owens who goes on a journey to find more about her dead mother who passed away when she was young. She finds herself in the Boatwright’s house (home of the honey makers) that is strictly for African-American women because she believes that her mother spent much of her life there. Lily finds herself dealing with frequent racial issues as the story takes place in Southern Carolina during the Civil

In life, relatively anything can happen for a reason. Whether it occurs upon our own actions or not, instances may arise for a new change. Within the novel, The Secret Life of Bees, our main protagonist, Lily, is tested by making a life-changing decision to either return to her father, T. Ray’s captivity, or stay with the Boatwright sisters, whom she befriended on her runaway adventure. Even through tough times Lily has endured with T. Ray, when it was time for her to decide who should receive custody