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 By: Sue Monk Kidd Text: Except: Chap.1- “This is what I knew about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.”(8) Excerpt: Chap.1- “I want to say they [the bees] showed up like the angel Gabriel appearing to the Virgin Mary‚ setting events in motion I could never have guessed.”(2) Quote: Chap.2- “The truth is‚ your sorry mother ran off and left you. The day she died‚ she’d come back to get her things‚ that’s all. You can hate me all you want‚ but
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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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The Secret life of the Brain The PBS special "The Secret Life of the Brain" took us through all different aspects of the brain and its formation through life. These five movies taught us that the brain is plastic and is always changing‚ cutting unused neurons and filling with different ideas and thoughts that you learn from your environment. The five videos go through the five stages of life; baby‚ child‚ teenager‚ adult and finally the aging brain. The Baby’s Brain: Wider than the Sky When you
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when his son went off to school. Initiating Incident: When his father called him to the bushes. Rising Actions: The father shows his son how to find water using an alder branch. The son never really thought about the lesson. He then moves on with his life by getting married‚ having children and travelling. Climax: The climax is when it the story says “T he alder stayed motionless in my hands and the water beneath the earth refused to sing.” Because we knew he lost the gift at that point
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“My breath came faster‚ and something coiled around my chest and squeezed tighter and tighter‚ until suddenly‚ like somebody had snapped off the panic switch‚ I felt myself go limp” (Kidd 150). The line form Sue Monk Kidd’s novel The Secret Life of Bees demonstrates how Lily Owens had felt throughout most of the book. Lily Owens has a young girl was blamed for killing her mother by her father‚ T-Ray. She grew up very curious and inspired. Within this journal I will be predicting what happened to
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“I thought about August’s words. People can start out one way‚ and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different” (Kidd‚ 293). Although it may seem as if this quote has a negative viewpoint‚ in relation to Lily‚ it represents how her life took a turn for the better and how she developed on the knowledge she obtained. In the novel ‘The Secret Life of Bees’ Lily’s decision to leave her home allowed her to learn and grow. To begin‚ Lily learns that she can care for yourself
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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 and a group
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Racism in The Secret Life of Bees During the Civil Rights Movement there was a lot of hatred and violence between the black community and the white community all because of skin color. When Whitney Moore Young‚ Jr. states‚ “Together‚ blacks and whites can move our country beyond racism and create for the benefit of all of us an open society‚ one that assures freedom‚ justice‚ and full equality for all”‚ Whitney means that if all the hate is put aside‚ the community‚ even the entire country‚ can
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Moderation over Extremism “The virtue of justice consists in moderation‚ as regulated by wisdom” (Aristotle). The philosophies of moderation and extremism‚ two completely different ways‚ have been implemented in the past to overcome many different challenges. However‚ of the two moderation has always been the better philosophy to embrace. Moderation has been used‚ successfully‚ by many notable figures in the past. The philosophy of extremism has been attempted by many in the past as well. Nevertheless
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