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First Impressions Of Lily In The Secret Life Of Bees
My impressions about Lily in the novel were that she was very brave with all the things that happened in her life, and she was only fourteen years old, she wasn’t that mature to know exactly all that things that actually happened, she was a beautiful young girl. She got over all the things that got her traumatized. That sense of humor that she had really help her to survive, because she was a happy girl and with a good mood. Lily grew alone, I mean she never had siblings or someone to play with. After a long time she begun to understand more about her mother, she forgive herself, and her growth took her beyond and to be more and more mature. Another thing that I was impressed about was that Lily has always been beaten down and abused by her father T-Ray, and because of that she never was a bad girl.
He also was a bad guy with Rosaleen, Lily has no choice but to take it. She was tired to keep living that life that
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She always tried to defend her. When they were getting to Tiburon she went to a house to meet the Boatrights girls. The Boatrights told her that they can stay with them in the house. When they got there August said that they can stay there if Rosaleen helps in the kitchen and Lily helping August with the bees. One of the Boatright girls, June, didn’t like Lily. Lily and Rosaleen were very happy because they were living with the girls. Lily was adapting herself to live with black people. She start a new beginning in her life and of course her mother was all the time with her in her heart. She did not know anything about her father, but she didn’t even care of him. The time was going on and Lily still lived there, she was trusting the Boatright girls, May was very funny and a good person with Lily and Rosaleen. June still did not like Lily. Lily met a guy, his name was Zach, he was a really good guy with all the girls in the Boatright’s

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