The Secret Life Of Bees By Sue Monk Kidd

In the book The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, August and Rosaleen are extremely different in their upbringing and the way it affects them. Due to the knowledge she gained growing up, August is “so intelligent, so cultured” (78), while Rosaleen’s limited education makes it so she could “get some manners” (75). August has a lot more academic knowledge and understanding of what to do in social situations than Rosaleen due to her education and upbringing. Rosaleen came from a poorer family and didn’t have as an extensive education as August did. Another way that Rosaleen and August are different is that August is “the woman who makes the Black Madonna Honey” (68) while Rosaleen “worked as one of [T. Ray’s] pickers” (2).

Bee’s Essay Lily relates to the bees in many ways throughout the book, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. She relates to the bees because she deals with separation, threats, and insecurities. First, if the queen dies the colony dies and eventually the colony falls apart. When Lily’s mother was packing her bags to leave T-Ray, he saw her and they got into a violent fight.

The Secret Life of Bees By: Sue Monk Kidd 1. Character List Lilly Owens is the main characters, narrator and the protagonist of this novel. She is fourteen years old and lives on a peach farm in Sylvan, South Carolina with her father who she calls T-Ray because they are not close and “daddy never fit him”. She also lives with their housekeeper Rosaleen. Throughout most of the novel, Lilly believes that she killed her mother when she was four years old during an argument between her and her father.

Nearly 20 million kids grow up without a mother. In The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Lily lost her mother at age four and had a father who hated her. Lily accidentally shot her mother at a young age, and ever since her father blames her for what happened. Lily decides to run away with her house maid, Rosaleen, and start a new life. Change can really affect a person, just like it did with Lily, T-Ray and May. Change is a crucial part of life.

Much like love, peace is not handed to one, it is a reward of chance and faith. In the Secret Life of Bees, written by Sue Monk Kidd, peace is accoladed to three women who take risks in life. Lily, the main character risks her relationship with August to gain mental and emotional peace, June achieves peace within her relationship by taking a risk and marrying Neil. However, May does not take risks and does not achieve peace.

When is breaking the law or defying an authority’s wishes ever a beneficial action? In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees, Lily Owens is motherless and stuck with a father who doesn’t give two pennies about her. In the summer of 1964, when Rosaleen, the slave who cares for her, gets thrown in jail, Lily makes what she feels are the right decisions. Their journey to live in a Pepto-Bismal pink house and meet the calendar sisters, August, June, and May, is the peculiar solution for Lily so that she may know who she can be and what is in her heart (Kidd 67). The author, Sue Monk Kidd, creates a theme in The Secret Life of Bees of how rebelling against authority can, under certain circumstances, be beneficial.

In the year of 1964 the Civil Rights Act was passed. In the novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, at that time period, a young girl named Lily Owens had a tough life and was forced to live alone with her abusive father since she accidently killed her mother, Deborah Owens. Lily now has to live with the fact that she killed her mother, and her father does not help her through it at all, but who does help her is one of Lily’s many and one of the most important mother figures which in Rosaleen, Lily’s nanny. Some awards that the book has won was New York Times Bestseller List and 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards. The Secret Life of Bees grew, says Kidd "out of my Southern background and my intimacy with the racial wounds and tensions

Lily longs for the truth about her mother and finds that truth is hiding in Tiburon South Carolina. She is painfully aware that her father might come and take her back to the horrible life she used to live. However she learns that the bees are free, that they live and rely on each other, and she tries to be free and happy like them. Lily soon discovers and comes to terms with her mother’s past, learns about beekeepers and is happy that she can now trust people and have friends that are like

Facts That Can Ruin a Relationship between Parents and Children In the book The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the writer tells a story of a young white girl facing challenges, struggling throughout her life, and trying to find out about the death of her mother. Sue Monk Kidd explains several different factors that can ruin a relationship between a parent and child, for example: the separation of a child from a father, when a father lies to his child and when there is no trust between them. To begin with, the relationship between a parent and a child can lead to separation from each other when there is not healthy interaction with each other or when there is not enough support from a father to a child.

Stories about children have always captivated humans young and old. From poems and short books written for children about children to autobiographies written about childhood for adults, youth has always been a fascinating topic. Perhaps this is because childhood brings a unique innocence and magic to any story. Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees and Leo Tolstoy’s Childhood both detail scenes from the protagonist’s childhood.

Separated for the Worse From religion to health care, segregation has impacts on everything within our daily lives. It divides communities and physically and mentally hurts those involved. In Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, segregation leads to devastating consequences such as violence, the separation of loved ones, as well as unfair and unequal treatment between races.

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is a novel about race, faith, and growing up in the American South in the 1960s. The story follows Lily Owens, a 14-year-old girl from Sylvan, South Carolina, and her struggles with not only struggles with the usual hardships associated with growing up, but also an abusive father and a dead mother. After being pushed to the limit by her father, she runs away from home with her “stand-in mother” to the town of Tiburon, South Carolina, having seen it on the back of an image of a honey label her real mother had owned. She is taken in by the eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters and is immersed into their world of bees, honey, and the Black Mary. Through Lily’s interactions with the sisters and her

The act of racial discrimination impacts innocent people's lives in numerous, negative ways; hence why multiple people, worldwide can not tolerate racism and discrimination. The novel written by Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, displays a wide range of scenarios where racism results in suffering. Rosaleen, a black woman, will never forget how three white men negatively impact her life; she will remain scarred unto death. Also, ever since the racial incident involving April and her twin, May, pain is constantly accompanying April; consequently, she commits suicide. Finally, when May loses April, she endures all the various sufferings of the world, including racial discrimination.

This past summer I read the novel the Secret Life of Bees. Set in 1964, around the time the Civil Rights Act was passed. The Civil Rights Act is basically like an embellishment upon The Jim Crow law. The law was enacted to pursue segregation between people of color and whites. When the Civil Rights Act was legislated it changed the law, giving civil rights to anyone and everyone regardless of their skin color.

In the 1960s, change progressively began to establish itself in the United States, especially in 1964, when the Civil Rights Act was signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson. These years proved to be violent amongst the African American and White communities, sometimes taking the lives of innocent black Americans who were trying to fulfill their rights as American citizens. Lily Owens, a 14-year-old white timid school girl and the protagonist in Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, witnessed this cruelty with her own eyes. Growing up in the south in Sylvan, South Carolina, Lily inadvertently developed her own stereotypes about African Americans. As the novel progressed, Lily came to realize her prejudice upon meeting August Boatwright,