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The Secret Life of Bees The Secret Life of Bees is a fascinating story of a girl who learns much about herself and what she wants after visiting a house in Tiburon, South Carolina. Lily Owens starts out living with her father T.Ray. She shapes her life around the day her mother died; she blames herself for killing her mother. Ever since that day her father has treated her with tremendous amount disrespect. She and Lily embark on a journey that will change their lives forever. Lily is a petite girl with black curly hair, and is the spitting image of her mother. They visit a house in Tiburon and end up staying with three colored women named August, June and May Boatwright. Zach is a colored boy who works at the house with the girls. There Lily learns about beekeeping and several things about her mother. Along the way she makes friends, adapts a new religion and discovers things she never would have thought possible. In this book, The Secret Life of Bees the main purpose is to inform. Sue Monk Kidd had described many events in which racism took place. Throughout the story she describes whites being cruel to colored people. The first is when three men saw Rosaleen and said “Where you going nigger?” (p. 31) she then poured her snuff jug full of spit over their shoes. The men told her to clean it off, and when she didn’t they started to beat her. The next is when Zach is put in jail for something he didn’t do. One of his friends had hit a white man with a bottle, and Zach was taken to jail along with him (p. 179). The author informs us how racism was much worse back then. Whites were superior, and treated with more respect. The Secret Life of Bees has more than just one theme. The first is racism. The author demonstrates Lily struggling with the fact that colored people aren’t very different from whites. Her first thoughts about them were
The Secret Life of Bees The Secret Life of Bees is a fascinating story of a girl who learns much about herself and what she wants after visiting a house in Tiburon, South Carolina. Lily Owens starts out living with her father T.Ray. She shapes her life around the day her mother died; she blames herself for killing her mother. Ever since that day her father has treated her with tremendous amount disrespect. She and Lily embark on a journey that will change their lives forever. Lily is a petite girl with black curly hair, and is the spitting image of her mother. They visit a house in Tiburon and end up staying with three colored women named August, June and May Boatwright. Zach is a colored boy who works at the house with the girls. There Lily learns about beekeeping and several things about her mother. Along the way she makes friends, adapts a new religion and discovers things she never would have thought possible. In this book, The Secret Life of Bees the main purpose is to inform. Sue Monk Kidd had described many events in which racism took place. Throughout the story she describes whites being cruel to colored people. The first is when three men saw Rosaleen and said “Where you going nigger?” (p. 31) she then poured her snuff jug full of spit over their shoes. The men told her to clean it off, and when she didn’t they started to beat her. The next is when Zach is put in jail for something he didn’t do. One of his friends had hit a white man with a bottle, and Zach was taken to jail along with him (p. 179). The author informs us how racism was much worse back then. Whites were superior, and treated with more respect. The Secret Life of Bees has more than just one theme. The first is racism. The author demonstrates Lily struggling with the fact that colored people aren’t very different from whites. Her first thoughts about them were