Lily Owens's The Secret Life Of Bees

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The Secret Life of Bees begins with fourteen-year-old Lily Owens who is reflecting back on the summer and all of the growth and change that she made as time progressed. The novel starts of by introducing her home which is a peach farm in the town of Sylvan, South Carolina where she lives with her abusive and ignorant father T. Ray Owens. Lily lost her mother when she was four years old, and every since she has not felt right in the world as though something has been taken away from her life. Thus, she always has flashbacks of her mother Deborah Fontanel Owens. The last memory she carries of her mother was the day she passed away. She describes the scene as her mother and father were arguing while her mother was packing her suitcase as if to