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T. Ray And Lily Relationship Essay
Lily and T. Ray’s relationship

In the beginning of the book "The secret Life of Bees", the protagonist, Lily, had a very tough life with her father, T. Ray, and Lily didn't have a mother. What I mean by this, is that when Lily was four years old, her mother dies by a gunshot and she blamed herself for what had happened; while her father, T.Ray, has always treated her bad and didn't acknowledge her.

One day, Lily went with her nanny, Rosaleen, to town after they had signed the civil rights movement and given the right to vote to the negro. Rosaleen had been practicing how to write her name with a perfect cursive letter; she has written about twenty-five times, Rosaleen Daisy, on a plain sheet of paper. Rosaleen had been planning to go register to vote in the negro church and Lily wants to go with her to town, so she tells, T. Ray, that she need to go to town to buy sanitary supplies and he
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She finds were Rosaleen is at and sees a policeman about side Rosaleen's door. The policeman was distracted so Lily sneaks into her room. Lily tells Rosaleen that she is going to take her out the hospital and that they are going to go somewhere else. The policeman enters Rosaleen's room and sees Lily inside the room and asked what was she doing there and Lily tell him that she was reaching her aunt. Lily went to the telephone that was in the hospital and calls to the secretary of the hospital were Rosaleen was and pretends to be the wife of the policeman's superior ask for the policeman guarding Rosaleen's door to be sent back to the station.

Lily goes back to Rosaleen's room and makes her put her dress on and takes her bandages off and puts a hood on. They whent out of the hospital and Lily told her that both of them are going to Tiburon, Sout Carolina. Rosaleen asked why but lily just told her that in one of the pictures of her mother there was a black mary picture in the back was written Tiburon, Sout

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