Lily In The Secret Life Of Bees

As reported by The National Center for Families Learning, “In a hive, the female worker bees are the bees that sting. The larger male drone bees don't have stingers. Queen bees also have stingers, but they rarely leave the hive to use them. When a bee stings you, its sharp, barbed stinger pierces the skin to inject venom called apitoxin.” Abruptly, a buzz startled Lily, the protagonist in The Secret Life of Bees, as bees swarmed into her bedroom. “Bees swarm before death” (Kidd 2), Rosaleen expressed. Cautiously, she walked down to her father’s room to wake him, fearing his wrath. Bursting with anger, he awoke, threatening to bring out the grits to Lily as they stepped into her room, where the bees vanished. Lily stopped calling T. Ray daddy

Over the course of the time Lily has been staying with the sisters, she lied about having a very different life, so she wouldn’t be judged for once. She thought August believed her, but she knew who Lily was the whole time. As time went on, Lily started to feel guilt about lying to the only people that cared for her, she finally loved someone. Once she confessed to August, Lily was appalled to know that her mother left without her, with her insane father. Lily felt betrayed, “I’d spent my life imagining all the ways she’d loved me, what a perfect specimen of a mother she was. And all of it was lies. I had completely made her up” (251). It was as if Lily had lost her mother all over again and needed time to grieve. Eventually, she begins to socialize once again and soon enough, she makes a new friend named Zach Taylor. They develop a friendship, which turns into a relationship, making her have a real friend finally. One day Lily heard a sudden knock on the front door. It was T. Ray, standing there with a smile that was not the slightest genuine. Immediately, he tells her to come with him, but August and Rosaleen are there to protect her. Lily soon realizes that a mother is someone that loves you