SECRET LIFE OF BEES – REVISION NOTES Central Characters Lily Melissa Owens Lily is a fourteen-year-old girl whose mother died when she was four years old‚ an accident that Lily feels she was responsible for. She dresses in clothes she made in home economics. She is not a popular person in school. She has jet-black hair that resembles a nest of cowlicks‚ no chin‚ Sophia Loren eyes and an inferiority complex. She takes to picking scabs on her body and biting the flesh around her fingernails
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A mother influences a child’s growth‚ specifically a daughter‚ and helps them towards independence and maturity. “ The Secret Life of Bees” written by Sue Monk Kidd is a novel about a young teenage girl‚ who runs away from her unloving and bitter father to search for the secrets of her dead mothers past. This novel allowed the author to share the importance of the truth and accepting the realities. Kidd also explores forgiveness‚ racism and feminine power. The author demonstrates that a family
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In the text “A Long Walk to Water”‚ by Linda Sue Park‚ there are many themes that are developing as we read. Some of these themes are abandonment‚ poverty‚ loneliness‚ etc. we will explore how these themes have developed thus far in the novel. When reading the text we can see the theme of poverty through Nya’s story. As stated on page 8‚ chapter 2‚ the narrators says‚ “…she looked at the bottom of her foot. There it was‚ a big thorn that had broken off right in the middle of her heel. If Nya had
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Many people do not like the idea that celebrities are in advertisements. Sue Jozui in her passage‚ argues that having celebs in advertisements is misleading and insults intelligence of the audience. She supports her argument by giving examples‚ like questioning why they think that someone will buy a suv just because some attractive famous person is pretending to drive it to get paid. The authors purpose is to persuade her audience to boycott this kind of advertising so people are not mislead anymore
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“A Long Walk To Water” by Linda Sue Park is a sensational story about an 11-year-old boy who has to fight his way through life‚ and an 11-year-old girl named Nya who has to make a Long walk every single morning. Linda Sue Park grew up in Urbana‚ Illinois where she loved to write Historical fiction for teens. In her Historical fiction books‚ you would most likely see that her topics would relate to Surviving and Working hard to stay on pace. Linda attended Stanford University for her college career
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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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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 be afraid of change. You can see this theme through Lily’s development‚ the setting‚ and the plot structure of the book. The development of the character Lily on
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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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The Effects of Patience “Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” (Saadi‚ 13th century Iran.) A Single Shard‚ by Linda Sue Park‚ is about Tree-ear (M.C.)‚ an orphaned child who lives in the seaside village of Ch’ulp’o‚ a place where potters reside because of the bountiful amount of clay‚ with a homeless person named Crane-man. Tree-ear’s number one dream is to become a potter like Min‚ the best potter in all of their town. Once he is hired as an assistant for Min‚ he goes
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if someone runs away‚ that isn’t the outcome. They would probably be caught and would have a more difficult life because of what they chose to do. When May died‚ the family changed around quite a bit and Lily got to live there with them. The author‚ Sue Monk Kidd‚ uses Lily‚ June and Zach to show that you should be careful over the choices you make and also to show that you should love your family. Lily changed throughout the story because of the decisions she
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