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    English 9- CPA 9/13/10 The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd “In a matter of seconds I knew exactly what I had to do-leave. I had to get away from T. Ray‚ who was probably on his way back this minute to do Lord-knows-what to me.” (p. 41). When people come of age‚ they follow through with their actions that they think are right for their welfare. In Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees‚ Lily Owens‚ a fourteen-year-old girl‚ had always done things behind her father’s back to avoid

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    full title · The Secret Life of Bees author · Sue Monk Kidd type of work · Novel genre · Bildungsroman (coming-of-age novel) language · English time and place written · 1997–2001‚ near Charleston‚ South Carolina date of first publication · 2002 publisher · Viking Penguin narrator · Fourteen-year-old Lily narrates the novel in retrospect‚ from the house where she now lives with the Boatwright sisters. point of view · Lily narrates the novel in the first-person‚ describing the events she experiences

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    In the film “The Secret Life of Bees” directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood an important idea was motherhood. It was the strongest idea in the film and can be described as the linkage of the story. It showed you the effects of guilt and the importance of love and home. Lily Owens was the character that most strongly connected to this idea. Visual and oral features such as costume‚ music‚ and camera movement help us understand the idea of motherhood throughout the film. The first time the theme of the

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    English 102 12/10/13 Secret Life of Bees In 1964‚ Lily Owens is fourteen years old. She has no mother‚ a father whom she despises‚ and no friends to turn to when she needs a shoulder to cry on. Not only does Lily have to deal with feelings of loneliness and betrayal caused by her parents‚ but in a time troubled by negativity towards the Civil Rights Act‚ she is also faced with situations that force her to grow up very fast. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is a page turning novel

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    The Secret Life of Bees Essay “A queen less colony is a pitiful and melancholy community; there may be a mournful wail or lament from within… without intervention the colony will die. But introduce a new queen and the most extravagant change takes place.” - The Queen Must Die: And Other Affairs of Bees and Men. Sue Monk Kidd writes a powerful story about a young girl who finds herself living with African-American sisters after running away from her unloving father. In The Secret Life of Bees Sue

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    The Mysterious Way Bees Live Bees relate and foreshadow many things that happen in this story. For example‚ at the beginning of the novel‚ when Lily catches a bee in a jar and opens for it to leave shows that Lily should leave too. She realizes she has to save Rosaleen and escape from her abusive father‚ T. Ray. The Secret Life of Bees‚ by Sue Monk Kidd‚ is a novel that possesses a strong symbol of bees and how they can relate to human life. When August said “Well if you have a queen

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    the quote‚ two of the novel’s main metaphors are mentioned‚ bees and the queen‚ which is referring to society and a mother figure. Although this quote is largely interpreted as a metaphor for Lily looking for a new queen or mother figure‚ and perhaps August being that mother‚ I believe that it has another meaning as well. I believe that the Black Madonna also serves as a “queen” and mother figure to all the women in “The Secret Life of Bees.” Chapter three begins with Lily waking up feeling

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    her bed‚ Lily waits for the return of the bees that have begun to live in the walls of her bedroom. The year is 1964; Lily is about to turn fourteen. She lives alone with her father‚ Terrance Ray‚ and their black housekeeper and nanny‚ Rosaleen. Lily can’t bring herself to call her cruel‚ confused father “Daddy‚” so she calls him T. Ray instead. Rosaleen warns her to watch out‚ because “bees swarm before death.” Lily insists on telling T. Ray about the bees‚ so she wakes him up‚ even though she suspects

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    DeAndré Morgan March 8‚ 2012 English Secret Life of Bees Essay The Secret Life of Bees takes place in 1964. During that time period there were a lot of racial issues and this book portrays some of these incidents very well. The prejudice in this book changed some of the characters forever. The first prejudice incident that occurred was to Rosaleen. She was a strong opinionated black woman. Since the Civil Rights Act was passed she wanted to go vote and finally have a voice. On her way

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    The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd’s novel‚ The Secret Life of Bees‚ is greatly influenced by her own personal childhood growing up in a small town known as Sylvester‚ Georgia. Her environment of life growing up carried much impact on the contents and controversies played throughout her novel. As Sue Monk claims‚ “My job is to imagine deeply‚ not recount my history.” She powerfully reveals inspiring divine female power in her famous novel The Secret Life of Bees. Sue Monk Kidd grew up in

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