Conflicts In The Secret Life Of Bees

Conflict between a parent and a child happens in many families. As children get older they begin to speak their mind and do not always agree with the parent and what they have to say. Every family is different, and have their own source of conflict. In the novel The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd uses the death of lily’s mother and lily’s resemblance of her mother as a source of the conflict between Lily and her father TRay. Lily is raised by her father TRay and their help Rosaleen. Rosaleen is the closest thing she has to a mother. Her father is very mean and doesn’t treat Lily right. As punishment TRay would make Lily kneel on grains of rice for a long period of time. Lily would have countless bruises and scars from the rice being stuck