Rosaleen fills in for Lily’s parents with her openness and determined
As the bees have a mother to care for them and provide sustenance, so Lily has a mother for whom she yearns. Each of the bees has a job to do, and Lily is learning her own job at the Boatright
Four years prior to his second Inaugural Address, President Lincoln had given a speech about war, “an impending civil war.” Now, after four years of such conflict, the President is issuing a speech of reconciliation, trying to convince his people to come back together with their Southern brethren, and try and heal the grievously wounded nation. A gifted rhetorician, the President used three primary literary tool s to make his point: parallel structure to illustrate similarities between Northerner and Southerner, allusions to the Bible to highlight the Christian values so important to both, and personification to paint the war as an evil enemy, and the nation as a wounded friend. In the second paragraph, Lincoln concludes with the parallel statements “one… would make war rather than let the nation survive… the other would accept war rather than let it parish, and the war came.”
Lily’s mother was stripped of her limits by Lily’s father and her sense of independence was gone. As Lily’s mother said, the more she accepted her husband's apologies, the more her tolerance for the abuse went up, which ultimately resulted in Lily’s mother being somewhat of a villain while her father was alive. Lastly, Lily’s dad plays the role of an antagonist perfectly as he shows the reader what a negative force looks like. Lily continuously shows the reader of the book the violent temper and the mental and physical abuse that they had to encounter with Lily's father.
In this next step in her journey, Rosaleen becomes the next person to answer some questions about who Lily’s mother was. Although the answer is short, and not really an answer, it still manages to help her in the forming of who her mother was. During the conversation between Lily and Rosaleen, Lily mentions to Rosaleen what TRay had said about her mother, and Rosaleen doesn’t say a word, instead, she stayed in silence. According to Lily, “she squinted straight ahead as if weighing the possibility. ”(Kidd, 52)
For insistence in the very beginning of the book there was a part where Lily catches a bee in a jar and keeps it as a pet but, Rosaleen makes her let it go. So Rosaleen buys Lily a chick instead.
Lily returns home to take some things to Rosaleen when T-Ray informs her that her mother had left her as a child. Lily has worshipped her mother for her entire life, and she refuses to
Although Lily did suffer a great loss from losing her mom, she gained so much more with the love and support that the Boatwrights and their group gave her. She has gained friends, someone to look up to, and the sense of family from all of them. Without the loss of her mom and the abuse of her dad she would never of gotten the experience of such powerful female role models and a new
Lily’s mother is the cause of much of her grief, through her journey she imagines her mother in a way that does not accurately depict who her mother truly was. When she finds out what her mother actually was she, “I stood
In the beginning of the book we knew nothing about her mother. Mostly about how T- ray is the meanest man in the world. In the novel lily said that he wouldn’t let her read or have fun. What she had to do was help him work his peach farm all day. Lily also said that she hated him for telling her that her mother didn’t love her.
Continuing, another theme that led us through Lily’s adventure of growing up was her discovering how important storytelling was. She was going through gruesome horrid things, and when she read things like Shakespeare she realized how important it was because it helped her escape to a fantasy world for a little bit of time. Lastly, Lily learns the power of the female community. Lily grew up without a mother, so for a large chunk of her life she didn’t know the real power the female community held.
She finds herself in a small town called Tiburon in South Carolina, living with August Boatwright who was once her mother’s maid. After staying in Tiburon for a while, Lily calls her father, curious if he knows what her favourite colour is. They only spoke for a short period of
Lily has the strongest relationship with Rosaleen, in which she describes her: She had a big round face and a body that sloped out from her neck like a pup tent, and she was so black that night seemed to seep from her skin. She lived alone in a little house tucked back in the woods, not so far from us, and came every day to cook, clean, and be my stand-in mother. Rosaleen have never had a child herself, so for the last ten years I’d been her guinea pig. (Kidd 2)
All is quiet in the beautiful ocean then you hear a scream then you look out into the ocean and the only thing you could see was a shark tail. Older Than Dinosaurs? Sharks have lived on the earth longer than you think for example, over three hundred years ago sharks roamed in waters, that is one hundred million years before dinosaurs roamed the earth!
She is the only one who truly has never done anything wrong - James Potter, Albus Dumbledore, Sirius Black, even Harry himself, they all did cruel acts and had moments of questioning themselves and their morals. Lily always stood up for what is right and in the end, even sacrificed her life for her son. Mothers seem to be given a special role in Harry Potter and sometimes even held up as an ideal. Lily Potter saves her son by sacrificing herself and through this, leaves a mark in him that helps Harry even after Lily’s death.
