The story, The Secret Life of Bees takes place in South Carolina in 1964. The story tells of a fourteen year old white girl, Lily Owens, whose life has been turned around the ever since the afternoon of her mother’s death. As the novel begins, Lily lies in bed while she wait for the bees to come. T.Ray is her abusive father and he doesn’t believe her story about bees. Her nanny, Rosaleen also agrees with her dad about the bees. Deborah, her mother died when she was a little kid. Her dad told her that she accidentally killed her, she was trying protect her from her father. Together, Rosaleen and Lily hitchhike to a town (Tiburon, South Carolina). She searches to find answers about her mother’s past and death. Lily learns that the black Mary