English 9- CPA 9/13/10 The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd “In a matter of seconds I knew exactly what I had to do-leave. I had to get away from T. Ray‚ who was probably on his way back this minute to do Lord-knows-what to me.” (p. 41). When people come of age‚ they follow through with their actions that they think are right for their welfare. In Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees‚ Lily Owens‚ a fourteen-year-old girl‚ had always done things behind her father’s back to avoid
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people out there who have troubles getting along with blood relatives usually because they are so similar it makes them different and causes them to argue. In The Secret Life of Bees Lily Owens doesn’t get along with her Father T.Ray not because they are similar but because Lily is exactly like her mother. T.Ray takes things out on Lily because he lost his wife and his daughter is so similar it kills him inside to see her
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and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different” (Kidd‚ 293). Although it may seem as if this quote has a negative viewpoint‚ in relation to Lily‚ it represents how her life took a turn for the better and how she developed on the knowledge she obtained. In the novel ‘The Secret Life of Bees’ Lily’s decision to leave her home allowed her to learn and grow. To begin‚ Lily learns that she can care for yourself and create your own happiness. Additionally‚ Lily learned that who
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Prompt 1: In The Secret Life of Bees every character holds a secret and ever big event that happens in the story brings a message. The most important message that Lily brings to the story is hope. Hope and aspiration is represented by the bees that keep recurring throughout the story. In the very beginning when Lily had barely anything to look up to‚ every single night bees would come into her room. “ The bees came the summer of 1964‚ the summer I turned fourteen and my life went spinning off into
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Lily Owens‚ the main character of the novel The Secret Life of Bees‚ is a protagonist and narrator of her story. She is fourteen years old and lives in Sylvan‚ South Carolina with her father T-Ray. She is beaten and abuse by him and is forced to work on his peach farm. When Lily was four‚ her mother decided to leave Lily and T-Ray. Lily ended up killing her mother accidentally and neither her nor T-Ray has forgotten. Lilly soon discovers her own qualities after she runs away from home with Rosaleen
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Character Sketch: Lily Owens from The Secret Life of Bees Lily Owens is the main character in ‘The Secret Life of Bees’. She is a young girl who escapes her abusive father while searching for information on her mother‚ who passed away when she was only four years old. Lily finds herself in Tiburon‚ South Carolina with her ‘stand-in mother/house keeper. Lily’s character goes through many different hardships on her journey throughout the novel. Despite Lily’s difficult and confusing childhood
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Secret Life of Bees Book Journal Chapter 1 Lily Owens is lying in her bed watching bees squeeze in and out of cracks in her walls. She thinks about her mother‚ who died when Lily was a child. She also thinks about Rosaleen‚ a black woman who looks after her and her father‚ T. Ray. When the bees begin to swarm around Lily‚ she wakes T. Ray to show him but when he comes‚ the bees are gone. He threatens to make her kneel in grits if she wakes him again. Lily decides she will catch some bees in a
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special outside washroom just for black people and not letting black people into stores or hotels in The Secret Life of Bees. Black maids are not allowed to use whites’ washroom and the guest washroom as white people think they carry ‘disease’ that will transmit to them through using the same toilet. “‘I did not raise you to use the colored bathroom!’ I hear her hiss-whispering‚ thinking I can’t hear‚ and I think‚ Lady‚ you didn’t raise your child at all. ‘This is dirty out here‚ Mae Mobley. You’ll
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The Secret Life of Bees Essay “There is nothing perfect‚ there is only life‚” is one of the most inspiring aphorisms that August uses in the book The Secret Life of Bees. August says this to Lily to teach her about life and how it is not perfect. This lesson is shown in many ways‚ one being when Lily knows that it was her who killed her mother. Also how she had to deal with T-Ray treating her the way he did and him being rude to her most of her life. These words that August says to Lily in Chapter
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Literary Analysis of Theme in The Secret Life of Bees In The Secret Life of Bees‚ Lily the main character in the book‚ travels to new places to learn about her mother who died when she was only four. She grew up in Sylvan‚ South Carolina in 1964 with her abusive father‚ T-Ray and black maid‚ Rosaleen. She and Rosaleen escape to Tiburon‚ where they meet the Boatwright sisters‚ who happen to know a lot about Lily’s mother. Sue Monk Kidd‚ the author of The Secret Life of Bees‚ develops the idea that you shouldn’t
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