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Analysis Of Bees By Sue Monk Kidd

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Life is filled with challenges and conflict. However only a few can overcome and escape the confinements of their problems, others remain left behind to struggle. Sue Monk Kidd displays this with the imprisonment that Lily deals with throughout the book. While Lily does finds liberation at the end, she first had to break free from the imprisonments of her secrets, T-Ray, and the torment from killing her mother. Throughout the book, one of the major conflicts that Lily has to face is her secrets. Her life is controlled through the secrets and they put a mental strain on her life. They refrain her from living fulfillingly.[add a quote and back it up dude] However, Kidd demonstrates freedom when Lily confronts her problem by finally telling the truth. [add another quote maybe] By doing this, Lily is now able to not worry about shutting herself away with the world. [you have to wrap this paragraph up] …show more content…

With an uncanny resemblance to her mother, Lily is a constant reminder to T-Ray of everything that went wrong. But instead of letting Lily go, T-Ray confines her to the house and abuses her ferociously.[Insert quote and backing up the evidence her.] Even when escaping and growing comfortable in the Boatwright sisters’ house, T-Ray hunts down Lily’s location and attempts to drag her home. Only after Lily refused to abide to his requests and the ____ stood with her, did T-Ray leave her life for good. [Maybe add another quote

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Sue Monk Kidd presents Lily’s insecure personality in her novel The Secret Life of Bees to convince the audience to see Lily in an innocent light. Kidd desires to portray Lily as innocent to justify her running away from T. Ray and her home. An excerpt from the onset of the book reveals Lily’s insecurity: “There was nothing worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and, when I didn’t have any, gnawing the flesh around my fingernails till I was a bleeding wreck”(9). As one analyzes this portion of the book, Lily convinces herself that she does not care what the others think about her.

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In the novel by Sue Monk Kidd,The Secret Life of Bees, discusses the internal conflict of a young girl named Lily. When Lily finds her true identity she transforms into a strong and confident women which helps her face the world and all of its challenges. Lily from the beginning of the novel she felt as if she was” impersonating a girl instead of really being one”(9).This shows how Lily tried acting and doing all the things that girls really do instead of being one. In the middle of the novel Lily gets to Tiburon and when she first gets there she goes into the store and asks about the picture and leaves but leaves with a bottle of snuff without paying. This shows how Lily is changing and not acting the way she did before she left Sylvan.

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Another concept Sue Monk Kidd presents to the reader is the continual emotional devastation Lily experiences because of her mother’s death and father’s opposition. To start off with, throughout the novel is apparent Lily has never found solace with her mother’s departure. However, Lily has a vague memory of a conflict that supposedly resulted in her mother’s death when Lily was only a toddler. Yet, her inability to understand what is the truth and her internal quest to discover what exactly happened that day continually progresses Lily’s characterization and self-discovery. As seen by her internal conflict, while at her house in Sylvan, “This is what I know about myself.

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