Sue Monk Kidd

The American literature period was considered to be born around the time of the Mayflower (estimated 1630s) and is still growing throughout the present time. As America itself was being founded, the literary movement was derived. The American literature definition can be stretched as far as historical documents dated back to the early 1600s to literary works concerning the area of the United States of America.

Sue Monk Kidd is recognized as an author of American Literature because of her novel’s ability to exemplify cultural and social values that take part in America. She was born on August 12, 1948, in Sylvester, Georgia. Her father’s imagination and paramount storytelling contributed to her passion of becoming an author. Henry David Thoreau’s
Walden, as well as Kate Chopin’s The Awakening influenced her writing, as she cited them
To be for her career of spirituality writings. Correspondingly, the start of her writing career contained Christian themes, as she worked as a freelance writer.

The Secret Life of Bees was officially published in 2002, and was bestowed
This sets up the major conflicts that are faced in The Secret Life of Bees, for example; after President Johnson signs the the Civil Rights Movement, Rosaleen decided to register to vote. On her way there, is confronted by three white men. Rosaleen bravely stands up to their harassment, and in result, they beat her up. Police arrive, and her and Lily end up getting unjustly arrested. T. Ray (Lily’s father) collects Lily at the prison, and informs her that Rosaleen will most likely be murdered. Later on in the novel, Zach, an African American that Lily expresses a love interest in, gets arrested for being with a group of friends when someone throws a glass bottle at a white man. These scenes were very important in the novel for building up the theme of racial