The july ends, and still lily and rosaleen are living with the Boatwrights. Lily imagines herself naming like the boatwright sisters and after thinking a lot she decides her name as october. Since it would make her initials O.O. now lily is becoming more like the boatwrights. One day, august asks lily to stick the pictures of virgin mary to the honey jars. She starts to think how her life would be if she didn’t find the picture of virgin mary on the honey jar in the store. August starts to ask lily what is the thing she loves? And she answers that she loves to read and write, rosaleen, blue color and Coca-Cola. August tells lily a secret about the black statue in her house that the statue isnt virgin mary it’s just a statue she got from an …show more content…
August also tells lily about her grandmother and how she taught her to takecare of the bees. She tells lily that according to her grandmother used to say that the bees hummed the music of Jesus Christ but that’s not true. August also tells lily about her parents and how her mother met her father. August continues to tell lily about her life and that She and June never got teaching jobs. August worked as a housekeeper and after her mothers death, as a beekeeper. She had many offers of married but always refused them thinking that she doesn’t need a man, even though she was in love with a man but she loved her freedom more. After that, august and lily go out to inspect the hives. On the bee farm august tells lily to close her eyes and listen to the sound of humming bees. August tells lily about the life of bees and how they work hard to make the hive successful. There are queen bees, mortician bees, field bees, and worker bees etc. As lily starts to think about bees she goes in a strang estate of mind. she starts to imagine the bee which in the mid of the hive, queen bee and mother of thousands, and then lily hears august calling