A bee forms a colony, one bee never sustaining itself properly unless surrounded by the comforting buzz of its companions. This is displayed through the themes of the Secret Life of Bees, as throughout the book, Lily thrives in her new and more beneficial environment amongst the bees that will be able to increase her efficiency not only of her physical wellbeing, but as well with her mental stability. She allows herself to change with the help the women who already helped her previously, to her mother, and although the women might have changed her path in a debatably bad or debatably good direction, she still becomes something more than she originally was. As August said “You know, Lily, people can start out one way, and by the time life gets through…end up completely different.” (248), and while Lily …show more content…
Lily was, for a lack of better terms, a white girl, indicated many times by other characters in the story, and was an influential factor; significant to the story and future inconvenient strife’s. In the novel, Lily is surrounded by many people of color who many show different opinions on her skin relevance to her environment. And while people had treated the people of color poorly, she had her own biased treatment amongst those of opposite nature. A very important figure to the book, the black Mary statue, had her own involvement on the perspective of the racial diversity. Unexpectedly, as announced by the novel, she was black, as when many hear the Virgin Mary, one would think of the birthing and more