Sue Monk Kidd
The American literature period was considered to be born around the time of the Mayflower (estimated 1630s) and is still growing throughout the present time. As America itself was being founded, the literary movement was derived. The American literature definition can be stretched as far as historical documents dated back to the early 1600s to literary works concerning the area of the United States of America.
Sue Monk Kidd is recognized as an author of American Literature because of her novel’s ability to exemplify cultural and social values that take part in America. She was born on August 12, 1948, in Sylvester, Georgia. Her father’s imagination and paramount storytelling contributed to her passion of becoming an author. Henry David Thoreau’s
Walden, as well as Kate Chopin’s The Awakening influenced her writing, as she cited them
To be for her career of spirituality writings. Correspondingly, the start of her writing career contained Christian themes, as she worked as a freelance writer.
The Secret Life of Bees was officially published in 2002, and was bestowed …show more content…
many awards. The setting was in Sylvan and Tiburon, South Carolina, in the 1960s, precisely around the time of the Civil Rights Movement. Associating with the time period, the novel is considered to be categorized as African American Literature. The plot surrounds fourteen year old protagonist, Lily Owens, as she discovers the irrationality of racism, and the power of the female community. Sue Monk Kidd’s novel alludes to the very important historical event of the Civil Rights Movement of 1964. a monumental effort that protected the rights of African-Americans. Although the Civil Rights Act strengthened the black community and protected them from many forms of racism in America, it provoked a fierce backlash. In the South more so than the North, blacks were harassed and in some extreme cases murdered for exercising their new freedoms.
Many of the antagonists in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel are racist whites angered by the new rights granted to the black community.
This sets up the major conflicts that are faced in The Secret Life of Bees, for example; after President Johnson signs the the Civil Rights Movement, Rosaleen decided to register to vote. On her way there, is confronted by three white men. Rosaleen bravely stands up to their harassment, and in result, they beat her up. Police arrive, and her and Lily end up getting unjustly arrested. T. Ray (Lily’s father) collects Lily at the prison, and informs her that Rosaleen will most likely be murdered. Later on in the novel, Zach, an African American that Lily expresses a love interest in, gets arrested for being with a group of friends when someone throws a glass bottle at a white man. These scenes were very important in the novel for building up the theme of racial
injustice. When Lily arrives in Tiburon, South Carolina, she pleads three black women for aid. While discussing what to do with the situation, June objects to sanctioning Lily, saything “but she is white, August”. Lily overhears, and becomes outraged and thinks that it is absurd how someone can dislike another person due to their skin color. This is an ironic scene, due to how the roles have switched. Lily, a white girl, is not used to being discriminated for her skin color. This allows her to be more empathetic towards other races, after seeing how it feels to be treated so poorly.
Another quote from The Secret Life of Bees is stated “ Some things don’t matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But a person’s heart - now that matters. The whole problem with people is… they know what matters… but they don’t choose it.. The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.”
When you are born, you don’t choose your skin color. Blacks would get discriminated for the color of their skin, even though they didn't choose it. This quote explains that the color of someone's skin shouldn't matter considering they don’t even choose it.
The amount of racial injustice in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel and the historical time period of The civil right’s movement
Sue Monk Kidd is recognized as an author of American Literature because of her novel’s ability to exemplify cultural and social values that take part in America. She was born on August 12, 1948, in Sylvester, Georgia. Her father’s imagination and paramount storytelling contributed to her passion of becoming an author. Henry David Thoreau’s
Walden, as well as Kate Chopin’s The Awakening influenced her writing, as she cited them
To be for her career of spirituality writings. Correspondingly, the start of her writing career contained Christian themes, as she worked as a freelance writer.
The Secret Life of Bees was officially published in 2002, and was bestowed …show more content…
many awards. The setting was in Sylvan and Tiburon, South Carolina, in the 1960s, precisely around the time of the Civil Rights Movement. Associating with the time period, the novel is considered to be categorized as African American Literature. The plot surrounds fourteen year old protagonist, Lily Owens, as she discovers the irrationality of racism, and the power of the female community. Sue Monk Kidd’s novel alludes to the very important historical event of the Civil Rights Movement of 1964. a monumental effort that protected the rights of African-Americans. Although the Civil Rights Act strengthened the black community and protected them from many forms of racism in America, it provoked a fierce backlash. In the South more so than the North, blacks were harassed and in some extreme cases murdered for exercising their new freedoms.
Many of the antagonists in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel are racist whites angered by the new rights granted to the black community.
This sets up the major conflicts that are faced in The Secret Life of Bees, for example; after President Johnson signs the the Civil Rights Movement, Rosaleen decided to register to vote. On her way there, is confronted by three white men. Rosaleen bravely stands up to their harassment, and in result, they beat her up. Police arrive, and her and Lily end up getting unjustly arrested. T. Ray (Lily’s father) collects Lily at the prison, and informs her that Rosaleen will most likely be murdered. Later on in the novel, Zach, an African American that Lily expresses a love interest in, gets arrested for being with a group of friends when someone throws a glass bottle at a white man. These scenes were very important in the novel for building up the theme of racial
injustice. When Lily arrives in Tiburon, South Carolina, she pleads three black women for aid. While discussing what to do with the situation, June objects to sanctioning Lily, saything “but she is white, August”. Lily overhears, and becomes outraged and thinks that it is absurd how someone can dislike another person due to their skin color. This is an ironic scene, due to how the roles have switched. Lily, a white girl, is not used to being discriminated for her skin color. This allows her to be more empathetic towards other races, after seeing how it feels to be treated so poorly.
Another quote from The Secret Life of Bees is stated “ Some things don’t matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But a person’s heart - now that matters. The whole problem with people is… they know what matters… but they don’t choose it.. The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.”
When you are born, you don’t choose your skin color. Blacks would get discriminated for the color of their skin, even though they didn't choose it. This quote explains that the color of someone's skin shouldn't matter considering they don’t even choose it.
The amount of racial injustice in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel and the historical time period of The civil right’s movement