the secret life of bees
Maddy Maddox
Mrs. Brown
Honors English 9 Period 6
27 August 2014
Summer Reading: Thematic ZOOM for Sue Monk Kidd’s “The Secret Life of Bees”
Primary Theme Statement (Claim)- The primary theme that Sue Monk Kidd’s “The Secret Life of Bees”, is that everybody needs a mother figure in their life to guide them through the obstacles and bumps along on their path of life. Unfortunately not every person is fortunate enough to have a mother but that does not mean they cannot find a woman who can fill in for the mother figure.
17 Thematic Quotations (Data)-
Quote 1- “Rosaleen had worked for us since my mother died…Rosaleen had never had a child herself, so for the last ten years I’d been her pet guinea pig.” (Kidd 2).
Quote 2-“The oddest things cause me to miss her. Like training bras. Who was I going to ask about that? And who but my mother could’ve understood that magnitude of driving me to junior cheerleader tryouts...But you know when I missed her the most? The day I was twelve and woke up with the rose-petal stain on my panties. I was so proud…and I didn’t have a soul to show it to except Rosaleen.” (Kidd 13).
Quote 3-“I looked across the water for Rosaleen. She was gone...Mother, forgive. Rosaleen, where are you...Mother, Forgive. That’s all I could feel.” (Kidd 54-55).
Quote 4-“It’s about a girl whose mother died when she was little…what happens to the girl?...She’s just feeling lost and sad.” (Kidd 131).
Quote 5-“So how did the black Mary statue get in the parlor?...the slaves believed it was Mary who had come to be among them…she’s really just the figurehead off an old ship, but the people needed comfort and rescue, so when they looked at it, they saw Mary.” (Kidd 141).
Quote 6-“There’s the queen…egg laying is the main thing, lily. She’s the mother of every bee in the hive, and they all depend on her to keep it going. I don’t care what their job is---they know the queen is their mother, she’s the mother of thousands.” (Kidd 149).
Quote 7-“August began to speak.
Mrs. Brown
Honors English 9 Period 6
27 August 2014
Summer Reading: Thematic ZOOM for Sue Monk Kidd’s “The Secret Life of Bees”
Primary Theme Statement (Claim)- The primary theme that Sue Monk Kidd’s “The Secret Life of Bees”, is that everybody needs a mother figure in their life to guide them through the obstacles and bumps along on their path of life. Unfortunately not every person is fortunate enough to have a mother but that does not mean they cannot find a woman who can fill in for the mother figure.
17 Thematic Quotations (Data)-
Quote 1- “Rosaleen had worked for us since my mother died…Rosaleen had never had a child herself, so for the last ten years I’d been her pet guinea pig.” (Kidd 2).
Quote 2-“The oddest things cause me to miss her. Like training bras. Who was I going to ask about that? And who but my mother could’ve understood that magnitude of driving me to junior cheerleader tryouts...But you know when I missed her the most? The day I was twelve and woke up with the rose-petal stain on my panties. I was so proud…and I didn’t have a soul to show it to except Rosaleen.” (Kidd 13).
Quote 3-“I looked across the water for Rosaleen. She was gone...Mother, forgive. Rosaleen, where are you...Mother, Forgive. That’s all I could feel.” (Kidd 54-55).
Quote 4-“It’s about a girl whose mother died when she was little…what happens to the girl?...She’s just feeling lost and sad.” (Kidd 131).
Quote 5-“So how did the black Mary statue get in the parlor?...the slaves believed it was Mary who had come to be among them…she’s really just the figurehead off an old ship, but the people needed comfort and rescue, so when they looked at it, they saw Mary.” (Kidd 141).
Quote 6-“There’s the queen…egg laying is the main thing, lily. She’s the mother of every bee in the hive, and they all depend on her to keep it going. I don’t care what their job is---they know the queen is their mother, she’s the mother of thousands.” (Kidd 149).
Quote 7-“August began to speak.