Secret Life of Bees Study paper
Chapter 1:
-summer of 1964, lily is turning 14
-doesn’t call T-Ray daddy b/c it “doesn’t fit him” aka he mistreats her so she isnt able to see him as a father figure
-rosaleen was a stand-in mother
-lily calls t-ray into her room saying there’s a swarm of bees
-t-ray comes in and there isn’t any bees and he’s like “the fuck nigga y u b playin”
- does lily have schizophrenia??????? or just a very imaginitive mind
-only memory of her mom lily has is the day that she died, December 3rd, 1954. lily was 4 years old -her mom was taking things out of the closet, and packing them into the suitcase
-t-ray came upstairs and dragged lily out of the room, but somehow she found her way back in
-lily picks up a gun and shoots her mom (what a hoe)
- *remember that t-ray and lily have a peach business where she assists him*
-t-ray forces her to kneel on grits b/c he finds her in the orchard looking at the box of her mom’s things that she had buried (he thinks she’s out with a boy super late at night)
-t-ray is very ignorant and doesn’t support lily reading when she’s selling peaches, although he is educated enough himself.
-story takes place during the time of the atomic bomb
-when lily asks for a silver bracelet for her birthday, t-ray pretends to not hear her and avoids talking about it #shady
- when rosaleen spills snuff on the racists, she does it as if she’s spelling her name out in curves “Rosaleen Daise”
Chapter 2 & Chapter 3: **sparknotes version has all the details from both of these chapters**
Chapter 4 & 5: - August Boatwright, standing in front of the house is the lady making the Black Madonna Honey.
- Lily had used the picture from her mom’s box of things to find the Boatwright house. (picture had Tiburon S.C [South Carolina] written on it)
- In the living room, there is a huge statue of Virgin Mary, called Our Lady of Chains
- in the story, virgin mary is portrayed as being black which seems to be more accurate than how
-summer of 1964, lily is turning 14
-doesn’t call T-Ray daddy b/c it “doesn’t fit him” aka he mistreats her so she isnt able to see him as a father figure
-rosaleen was a stand-in mother
-lily calls t-ray into her room saying there’s a swarm of bees
-t-ray comes in and there isn’t any bees and he’s like “the fuck nigga y u b playin”
- does lily have schizophrenia??????? or just a very imaginitive mind
-only memory of her mom lily has is the day that she died, December 3rd, 1954. lily was 4 years old -her mom was taking things out of the closet, and packing them into the suitcase
-t-ray came upstairs and dragged lily out of the room, but somehow she found her way back in
-lily picks up a gun and shoots her mom (what a hoe)
- *remember that t-ray and lily have a peach business where she assists him*
-t-ray forces her to kneel on grits b/c he finds her in the orchard looking at the box of her mom’s things that she had buried (he thinks she’s out with a boy super late at night)
-t-ray is very ignorant and doesn’t support lily reading when she’s selling peaches, although he is educated enough himself.
-story takes place during the time of the atomic bomb
-when lily asks for a silver bracelet for her birthday, t-ray pretends to not hear her and avoids talking about it #shady
- when rosaleen spills snuff on the racists, she does it as if she’s spelling her name out in curves “Rosaleen Daise”
Chapter 2 & Chapter 3: **sparknotes version has all the details from both of these chapters**
Chapter 4 & 5: - August Boatwright, standing in front of the house is the lady making the Black Madonna Honey.
- Lily had used the picture from her mom’s box of things to find the Boatwright house. (picture had Tiburon S.C [South Carolina] written on it)
- In the living room, there is a huge statue of Virgin Mary, called Our Lady of Chains
- in the story, virgin mary is portrayed as being black which seems to be more accurate than how