Sonny And Kany Comparison

In The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd and Rocket Boys by Homer (Sonny) Hickam Jr., the protagonists, Lily and Sonny, respectively, both learned that they had the power to escape their seemingly predetermined and immutable fates and to decide their futures for themselves. After her mother died in a tragic gun accident when she was four, Lily Owens was left in the hands of her unloving father, T-Ray, and her colored stand-in mother, Rosaleen, feeling as if she does not fit in because she had no mother figure, not “a grandmother, or even a measly aunt” in her life (Kidd 9). Instead of staying with her father, where she would have endured abuse and neglect for the rest of her life, Lily took the reigns on her future and decided that her and Rosaleen would flee to Tiburon, South Carolina, a town written on the back of one of her mother’s belongings, in hopes of
To avoid going to the mine, of course, Sonny would need to achieve his goals, and in order to do so, he had to teach himself calculus when his school did not allow him to take the class, rocketry and chemistry, so that the rockets would launch, increasing the chances of recognition of the rocket club, but most of all, he needed to learn that, in the words of Wernher von Braun, “If you work hard enough, you will do anything you want,” even escape Coalwood and become a NASA scientist, which is ultimately what Sonny did. Evidently, both Lily and Sonny led by example, becoming the masters of their fates when they were unsatisfied with the lives others had laid out for