The Secret Life Of Bee1
The Secret Life of Bees
By: Sue Monk Kidd
Text:
Except:
Chap.1- “This is what I knew about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.”(8)
Excerpt:
Chap.1- “I want to say they [the bees] showed up like the angel Gabriel appearing to the Virgin Mary, setting events in motion I could never have guessed.”(2)
Quote:
Chap.2- “The truth is, your sorry mother ran off and left you. The day she died, she’d come back to get her things, that’s all. You can hate me all you want, but she’s the one who left you.” (39)
Simile:
Chap.2- “The one thing about him was the smallness of his ears, the ears of a child, ears like little dried up apricots.”(34
Tamia Brinson
August 18, 2014
My Response/Reaction:
Lilly feels like it is her fault her mom is dead, and it’s the only thing she really ever thinks about. Her mother was her fault her mother was the only person who ever really loved and cared for her, unless T.Ray actually has feelings or even a heart at that matter. Now that she’s gone Lilly has nobody and she wishes she could take it all back.
I sense some foreshadowing in this sentence. Lily is basically saying that the bees coming into her life has a purpose and a series of important events are going to happen that will tell her about herself.
T.Ray is a coldhearted person that will say or do anything to try and make Lilly’s life miserable. The fact that he would even tell her something so evil and mean like that shows that he couldn’t care less about Lilly’s feelings and only wants her to shut up and forget about her mother.
I find it funny the way Lily describes Mr. Gaston’s ears. I can just imagine the smallness of them and from how she describe them as dried up apricots I imagine them being really wrinkly which makes it even more amusing
Excerpt:
Chap.3- “When I looked, I saw crop duster plunging his little plane over a field of growing things, behind him a cloud of pesticides parachuting out. I couldn’t decide what part of this
By: Sue Monk Kidd
Text:
Except:
Chap.1- “This is what I knew about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.”(8)
Excerpt:
Chap.1- “I want to say they [the bees] showed up like the angel Gabriel appearing to the Virgin Mary, setting events in motion I could never have guessed.”(2)
Quote:
Chap.2- “The truth is, your sorry mother ran off and left you. The day she died, she’d come back to get her things, that’s all. You can hate me all you want, but she’s the one who left you.” (39)
Simile:
Chap.2- “The one thing about him was the smallness of his ears, the ears of a child, ears like little dried up apricots.”(34
Tamia Brinson
August 18, 2014
My Response/Reaction:
Lilly feels like it is her fault her mom is dead, and it’s the only thing she really ever thinks about. Her mother was her fault her mother was the only person who ever really loved and cared for her, unless T.Ray actually has feelings or even a heart at that matter. Now that she’s gone Lilly has nobody and she wishes she could take it all back.
I sense some foreshadowing in this sentence. Lily is basically saying that the bees coming into her life has a purpose and a series of important events are going to happen that will tell her about herself.
T.Ray is a coldhearted person that will say or do anything to try and make Lilly’s life miserable. The fact that he would even tell her something so evil and mean like that shows that he couldn’t care less about Lilly’s feelings and only wants her to shut up and forget about her mother.
I find it funny the way Lily describes Mr. Gaston’s ears. I can just imagine the smallness of them and from how she describe them as dried up apricots I imagine them being really wrinkly which makes it even more amusing
Excerpt:
Chap.3- “When I looked, I saw crop duster plunging his little plane over a field of growing things, behind him a cloud of pesticides parachuting out. I couldn’t decide what part of this