Sue Monk Kidd

about the intelligence of black people in comparison to white people. Her first thought is that “they could be smart, but not as smart as me, me being white.” (Kidd 78). However after further thinking, she comes to the realization that “August is so intelligent, so cultured… That's what let me know I had some prejudice buried inside me.” (Kidd 78). Lily loves August like a mother, yet growing up during her time period she is taught that people with August’s skin color will never be worthy of the same

I chose to read The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd because when I read the back of the book, it seemed to portray an interesting plot. When reading it, I knew I was right. I feel that certain people could relate to this and I know that situations like these are happening all around us even as we speak. When reading the book, I knew who my favorite character and least favorite character were right away. My favorite character was Lily. she is a very relatable character who goes against all

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

In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd, Lily is the character whom has changed the most. First of all, Lily is the fundamental character, protagonist, and narrator of her story. At the point when Lily first shows up in the novel, she is a beaten down, misused, and abused by her brutal father. He runs a peach farm where Lily has carried on with her entire life. However, inside of Lily are qualities she finds when she leaves home and goes on the run with her nanny, Rosaleen. Through

family has parents and maybe some siblings too, it is what makes the family a family. Some kids are adopted and some are not and some like Lily Owens in The Secret Life of Bees got to choose her family. In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd, the theme that appears a lot is how much family means, even if it is chosen. The theme that appears a lot is how much family means, even if it is chosen. In every family if the person has siblings, there is always sibling rivalry. June and Lily

In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the symbolism of the color blue as Lily uses her favorite color to judge whether a person truly loves her. Lily believes that for someone to truly love her, they must know the most trivial detail of her: the color blue. For example, Lily, in an argument with her father, blatantly asks her father if he knows her favorite color. Although one would expect a father to know such fact, Terrence, her father, does not know Lily’s favorite color and

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

In Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, “The Secret Life of Bees,” about a troubled girl named Lily, the motif of curiosity is developed as an underlying characteristic of Lily and the novel. The development of curiosity within Lily is demonstrated more efficiently in the novel by Sue Monk Kidd than the movie. The motif of curiosity evolves as Lily matures in the novel, while in the movie the meaning of her curiosity is lost. By incorporating the feature of curiosity within Lily throughout the entire novel gives

In The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd’s focuses on prejudice through descriptive comparison and a shift in tone to reveal the harsh and racist standards of the society in the book. In doing so, Kidd describes the racial prejudice that those of a minority has faced due to the majority’s biases and ignorance. In the novel, our main character, Lily Owens, runs away from home with Rosaleen and lives with the Boatwright sisters in Tiburon, South Carolina. The Boatwright sisters, however, are colored

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 book to any individual that has any, if even the slightest, spark of curiosity within them, to understand the hardships