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    Style Analysis English Honors 1 30 April 2012 The Secrets Behind The Secret Life of Bees Novelist Sue Monk Kidd in her book The Secret Life of Bees illustrates Lily Owens’ journey as she overcomes the irrationalities of racism‚ discovers the power of the female community‚ and defines the importance of storytelling. Kidd’s purpose is to convey that even though society might drag a person down‚ the person still has someone who believes in them. She also wants people to be able to understand how

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    Can a teenager bear a pang of sadness when especially a loved one passed away in a crucial moment of their life? Losing someone or something that is deeply cared and loved can very painful to anyone. However‚ for most of the teenagers‚ a sense of the death of loved ones can be more strange because they are young to have a chance to think about its meaning‚ and because of its unfamiliar‚ it can cause them greater suffers if they are facing in reality. Even so‚ Sue Monk Kidd has a different point of

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    dream of Nina ’s since she was a little girl. Luckily‚ Nina is one of the few dancers Thomas deems worthy of auditioning for the role. A stunning dancer‚ Nina ’s audition is going magnificently until the interrupting entrance of fellow auditionee Lily (Mila Kunis) causes her to falter. Thomas does not allow for Nina to continue with her routine‚ saying that if she were only auditioning for the Swan Queen‚ the role would be hers; however‚ he is not convinced that the pure‚ innocent Nina is

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    and race-based prejudice. In female power you see Rosaleen being lily mother even though she is not her mother but she does it because she loves lily and August giving her knowledge and helping her be strong so that she can be good in the world. Then another female power is lily asking for her mother forgiveness for killing her and remembering her mother. The other theme in the novel would be Race-based prejudice. On how Lily was growing up in the south where races were divided by the laws and

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    Virginia Woolf Rachna Bhutoria ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would genuinely like to thank our Literature Teacher Ms. kundu for giving us the opportunity to work on this topic and especially giving us a great author like Virginia Woolf. We were touched to know her struggles in life and also greatly impressed by her works which are truly exceptional and modernist . We would also like to thank the people who gave in their inputs after reading Virginia Woolf’s work which helped us out to do our project

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    insignificant. Mr. Ramsay and Lily Briscoe especially strive for this long lasting remembrance and become blinded by their desire for eternal fame. Neither realize that true greatness‚ true immortality‚ can be achieved only through the world apart from man. Though both Mr. Ramsay and Lily worry about their legacy‚ only Mrs. Ramsay‚ who concerns herself naught with how she will be remembered‚ continues to exist after death‚ and her spirit guides both Mr. Ramsay and Lily toward a path of understanding

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    book the let the reader know the progression in becoming an artist. Woolf’s use of Lily throughout the novel showed the upbringing of an incomplete character. Lily along with her painting became a complete object at the end when she realized the reasons behind her need to become an artist‚ a unique person and above all learn to take advantages of moments and vision in life. In the first section of the book‚ Lily was not portrayed as the visionary artist that she becomes at the end of the novel

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    The Mysterious Way Bees Live Bees relate and foreshadow many things that happen in this story. For example‚ at the beginning of the novel‚ when Lily catches a bee in a jar and opens for it to leave shows that Lily should leave too. She realizes she has to save Rosaleen and escape from her abusive father‚ T. Ray. The Secret Life of Bees‚ by Sue Monk Kidd‚ is a novel that possesses a strong symbol of bees and how they can relate to human life. When August said “Well if you have a queen

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    people and cause them to be at a thin line. When Lily and Zach are eating lunch after a day of work‚ Zach explains his dream job and what he plans to accomplish in the future. When Lily hears about it she cannot believe it. She has a sense of annoyance. Without even knowing it‚ she is being a bit of a racist when she states‚ “I’ve just never heard of a Negro lawyer‚ that’s all. You’ve got to hear of these things before you can imagine them” (Kidd 121). Lily does not realize she is putting Zach down by

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    Dongjiao Li Professor Sandra Orser English 3331 Feb 3rd 2014 A Study of the conventions of Fairy Tales: Lily and the God of the river Fairy tales are not only popular in children but also appeal to adults because they always provide people with good wishes. For hundreds of years‚ fairy tales have become a very important part of children’s literature. As we learn more about fairy tales‚ we found out that there are several conventions of the fairy tales‚ such as a specific setting to remove

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