Lily Owens's The Secret Life Of Bees

The Secret Life of Bees, is what many would consider a meaningful story of racism, humanity, and women’s rights. This story has a way of capturing one’s complete attention and making it tough to leave the book. One can easily relate to the characters and their pain as the author has made it her main mission to tell the story in the context of women and their profound vulnerabilities throughout the times. This inspiring story invites us into the 14-year-old Lily Owens’s life which has been greatly impacted by a terrible accident and a distorted memory of her mother Deborah. Lily’s world and development are forever changed when her mother is tragically shot by Lily accidently during a heated fight between her mother and father in a hot summer

However, the main focus will be on Lily, who is now a young adult in search for answers and clarities in life. Besides growing up in an isolated environment during her early and crucial time in life, Lily has also been subjected to physical and emotional abuse by her brutal father who used to make a living by running a peach farm. Years after running off with her only mother figure, Rosaleen, and settling in a warm and welcoming household of women, Lily is still striving to find a more positive and relatable view of herself and life. In many ways, she tries to connect her past with her father and mother with the one she has created with Rosaleen and her new supportive family. Lily’s current ‘family” according to herself, consists in part of her estranged father T. Ray Owens, presumingly her deceased mother, Deborah, Rosaleen, the Boatwright sisters August, May and June, and her love interest Zachary. Along with her new life and reality, Lily struggles with a blurred memory of killing her mother at the age of 4 during an escalated fight between her parents. For this, she expresses a strong sense of guilt and a true desire for forgiveness from her mother in not knowing whether she is really to blame for that accident or not. In many ways, Lily has developed an imaginary relationship with her mother whom she converses with at times in

However, at any given moment when Lily feels comfortable or desires to bring in her father T- Ray or any of the other members of her extended family, the Bowen family therapy would be a good choice for therapy as well. The idea behind this therapy theory is to view the individual(s) within the context of a system, and teaching him or her to recognize triangles in order to detriangle him or herself Nichols,