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    The book that I read this quarter was Stung by Bethany Wiggins. It is about a 17-year-old girl named Fiona Tarsis who lives in a world where being stung and bearing the mark means you live on the wrong side of the wall. During desperate attempts to save the rapidly declining bee population‚ a new line of super bees were created. Genetically modified to resist all pesticides and engineered to have a more deadly and venomous sting‚ the GenMod bees became the new hope for the future of the bees and

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    began to forget about his business to become a western monk‚ he shaved his entire head bald and he make a circular burn mark.Because here did not have monastery‚ he start build monastery for him to live in foresh. David Aslew donating all his wealth to the poor people all over the Earth. The whole earth was suprised by his actions to become a western monk. Many reporter wants to interview him‚ they want know why he

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    "The Secret Life Of Bees" Have you ever discovered something that changed everything you thought when you were growing up? Lily Owens did. In The Secret Life Of Bees though‚ she was in for a rude awakening. Throughout this story we follow Lily as she discovers things about her past as she sets out with a picture of the African American Virgin Mary with only 3 words on the back: "Tiburon‚ South Carolina". In The Secret Life Of Bees the characters were influenced by beekeeping‚ the "queen bee"‚ and

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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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    Treasure Island and Secret Life of Bees Synthesis Essay The Secret Life of Bees and Treasure Island both have adolescent children‚ who go through their own adventures to mature and change. Lily and Jim both start out as young‚ innocent kids and soon become matured young adults that are able to make their own decisions and do what is best for others. In these two novels both Jim and Lily starts out as very young kids that have a lot of change that has taken place in both of their lives

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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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    “Why‚ Honey?” is a short story written by the American short-story writer and poet‚ Raymond Carver‚ published in his collection Will You Please Be Quiet‚ Please in 1970 (en.wikipedia.org). The text tells the story of a mother’s concern of her son’s behaviour and tendency to lie starting from a young age to present time‚ in a form of a letter‚ an epistolary narrative (sittingbee.com). The woman in the text is the protagonist and narrator of the story and her son is a minor character. However‚ even

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    Extended response Q9 ‘Institutions can change one for better or worse’ this quote is proven in the novel ‘raw’ by Scott Monk and ‘Hero of War’ by Rise Against. Through the contrasting ideas of rebellion and conformity‚ the responders are able to see how institutions can manipulate one and have a negative or positive impact. In ‘Raw’ by Scott Monk‚ Brett uses rebellion to escape from his fears and then be liberated from it; he does this as he believes it is the only way to freedom. When Brett first

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    “Don’t judge a book by its cover”‚ a common American idiom‚ certainly reigns true in the context of this particular novel written by Sue Monk Kidd‚ The Secret Life of Bees. Main character Lily’s stay at the Boatwright farm with three bee-keeping sisters becomes a crucial setting that will forever alter her views on bees‚ racism‚ and life in a way she never would have anticipated. The story begins in Sylvan‚ South Carolina in 1964 at an especially difficult time‚ not only for those divided by race

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