Liliana Rangel September 5‚ 2013 FR. Lit and Comp. Period 2 Dear Sue Monk Kidd‚ I am writing to you today telling you about your book The Secret Life of Bees. The Secret Life of Bees is an interesting story that I enjoyed very much. This story has a very complex plot and storyline. The main character‚ Lily‚ has a tough life living with her abusive father I wish T. Ray could have been a little bit nicer to Lily. I do not like how he is so ridged with her. I love Lily as a character because
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“The Secret Life of Bees” Literary Analysis Essay Inevitable conflicts with parents happen frequently in the lives of many adolescents. In the novel “The Secret Life of Bees‚” a young girl named Lily Owens runs away from home‚ leaving her abusive father behind‚ on a hunt for more connections to her dead mother‚ Deborah. Kidd places obstacles of parental conflict for Lily throughout her whole novel. Lily battles with the internal conflict of the knowledge that she killed her own mother and the struggle
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Female Power in The Secret Life of Bees All throughout history‚ women have been looked down upon lower and not as good as men. They are the ones who do all of the dirty work and care for the children. In the novel The Secret Life of Bees‚ Sue Monk Kidd depicts women as possessing much strength that does not have the chance to shine through in reality because men have all the authority and control. Rosaleen‚ a very strong woman mentally and physically‚ stands up for what she believes in‚ no matter
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Thematic Interpretation Monk Kidd‚ Sue | The Secret Life of Bees | Harmondsworth‚ England: Viking Penguin‚ 2002 In the novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd there were many themes‚ motifs and symbols that presented their selves throughout the story. The two themes that stood out to me in this book were the irrationality of racism and the power of the female community. These themes had a major significance in the overall message of the book. If I have learned anything from reading
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“People can start out one way‚ and by the time life gets through with them‚ they end up completely different” (Kidd 248). During the civil rights era in the book The Secret Life of Bees‚ teenager Lily escapes her abusive father. She takes her black house maid with her to find answers about her mother‚ who died when Lily was very young. She leaves T. Ray‚ her father‚ and secretly goes to live in a small town of Tiburon‚ SC with a family of women. These women slowly become her new family with love
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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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Sonsyrea Tate states that home will always be with you‚ no matter where you go. In this sense‚ home is where aspirations‚ experiences‚ and growth lie. In Secret Life of Bees‚ the main character‚ Lily‚ finds herself trapped within an abusive‚ constrained home‚ but eventually finds a safe haven in Tiburon‚ with the Calendar Sisters. As Lily travels to search for a place where she belongs‚ she not only takes Rosaleen with her‚ but her unresolved emotions of her mother and aspirations of freedom as well
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issues or transgressions. The result often becomes an inability to exculpate others as well. However‚ if a person can seek forgiveness‚ then happiness will become more apparent in his or her life. In the novel The Secret Life of Bees‚ Sue Monk Kidd demonstrates how contentment becomes prevalent in a person’s life through the characters Lily and June once they seek forgiveness. Lily‚ a fourteen-year-old runaway white girl‚ not only struggles to forgive herself‚ but her father‚ T Ray‚ and her mother for
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Set in the American South in 1964‚ the year of the Civil Rights Act and intensifying racial unrest‚ Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees is a powerful story not simply about bees‚ but of coming-of-age‚ of the ability of love to transform our lives‚ and of the often unacknowledged longing for equal women and human rights. Although this novel is not one of a higher reading level‚ Kidd displays many hidden meanings‚ ones that require the reader to dig beneath the surface. Addressing the wounds
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Maddie Carlson Mrs. Schlangen Honors English II 12 August 2013 Sue Monk Kidd: The Secret Life of Bee’s Very rarely do readers ever come across a book that they can relate to in various ways. The Secret Life of Bees is a captivating novel that uses extraordinary characters that engage readers to continue the novel. It influences them in ways that may change their experience of life. Sue Monk Kidd gives the main character‚ Lily Owens‚ many traits that which make this book even more delightful
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