Effects Of Realization In The Secret Life Of Bees

The Effects Of Growing Up Realization can impact a person's life negatively and positively and as a whole someones character. Coming of age is the event that occurs when one starts to see how life really is throughout the journey of growing from experiences to construct an exceptional life to become a better person. The components that play into the characters' coming-of-age development are their perception of parents and their experience of loss. In the novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the central character Lily goes through the development of really realizing who her parents are in the present time and how they acted in the past before and after her birth. In the second novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

It is fulfilling the idea of them being human, making mistakes along the way, and really perceiving that they aren't perfect. Using The Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, Lily had this idea of her mother that she was heavenly as if her mother was the best to exist. “Her very hands were inside here. I feel foolish about it now, but one time I stuffed the gloves with cotton balls and held them through the night.”( Kidd pg. 14) In this quote from the book at the very beginning one is able to see that Lily had this admiration and longing for her late mother and just wanted a sense of her to remember her by. Throughout the story one is able to see that as Lily comes to learn who her mother was and what she did she starts to create some sort of hatred towards her mother. The way she thinks about her mother changes as she comes to hear all the events that played out in her mother's life from a character named August who was important to Lily’s mother and Lily herself. “ “I guess one day it finally dawned on her: oh, yeah, that's right, I've got a little girl at home. Gee, maybe I'll go back and get her now.” … From now on, every time I think of my mother, I could, so easy, slip off into a cold place where meanness took over.” (Kidd pg. 264) One is able to see through this quote that the realization sinks in for Lily that her

In the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian By Sherman Alexie, the main character of this book: Arnold Spirit goes through a journey of loss throughout his family and friendships as he transitions from a school near his home where he is like everyone else, to a more privileged school farther away from his home in order to receive a better education and better future for himself. Events play out throughout his life that cause great grief for himself and his family. When he transitioned schools it strained the relationship between him and his best friend that caused a loss between themselves. Another form of loss he experienced was the death of a family friend, his grandmother, and his sister. In the beginning of the story he was bullied all his life because of the condition he had. Arnold was smarter than most kids at his school on the reservation and was told by one of his teachers that he needed to leave the “rez” or he would end up killing himself. As he arrived at the new school it doesn't start out typically well but he knows that overtime it was the best option for him. “It was courageous of her to leave the basement and move to Montana. She went searching for her dreams, and she didn't find them, but she made the attempt. And I was making the attempt, too. And maybe it would kill me, too, but I knew that staying on the rez would have