The Secret Life Of Bees Writing Prompts

Prompt 1: In The Secret Life of Bees every character holds a secret and ever big event that happens in the story brings a message. The most important message that Lily brings to the story is hope. Hope and aspiration is represented by the bees that keep recurring throughout the story. In the very beginning when Lily had barely anything to look up to, every single night bees would come into her room. “ The bees came the summer of 1964, the summer I turned fourteen and my life went spinning off into a whole new orbit, and I mean a whole new orbit” ( Kidd 1 ). Everything seemed to be holding Lily back in life and when the bees came into her room that one night everything changed. It couldn’t just be a coincidence that out of everybody Lily
This book shows social challenges on a real and personal form. Although many characters in the book can represent the extremely difficult challenges of racism back in the day, Rosaleen sticks out to me most and the brutal challenges she faced would rarely occur today. The social norm of racism has drastically changed over time. In the past it was a completely normal thing to do what people did to rosaline and nobody would stand up for her. Another thing happening at that time was segregation. White people were raised at that time that anyone different or anyone that had any pigmentation to their skin wasn’t equal. “ Why is it sports is the only thing white people see us being successful at? I don’t want to play football,” he said. “ I wanna be a lawyer.” ( Kidd 120 ). When Lily was growing up, she never once heard of someone of color being a lawyer, so that subject was pristine to her. It was rare for anyone to step out of the boundaries of what was socially acceptable back then. Zach and Rosaleen overstepped what was the social norm in the 1960’s being someone of color, which brought a meaningful message to the