ipl-logo

Secret Life Of Bees Theme Analysis

807 Words4 Pages

In the 1960’s, racial inequality was widely shown but can be easily overcome.(2) In the novel Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, racial inequality is shown a lot through the book. The author puts out the theme in many different parts of the book of racial inequality to prove that is one of the greater themes in the book. Racial inequality is where two specific races are not equal to each other. In the book it is the whites vs the blacks. The whites are living the better life and are mistreating the blacks throughout the book. The whites use many ways to make the blacks feel like unequal. For example they discriminate them and use racism towards them in the book. Not only does the whites use racism but also kids. The book shows this through lily and how she changes over the course of the book. In the novel racial inequality is shown many times throughout white people, and Lily. Not only is it shown but is easily overcome with lily in the book.
One way how racial inequality is shown is by the whites throughout the book. Kidd shows many different examples of racial inequality with …show more content…

Lily is a small and smart, a girl going through a race shift throughout the book.(1) In the beginning of the book Lily is shown as a little racist girl but by the end she changes and understands what racial inequity is. In the end Kidd shows Lily as a girl who has changed and a girl who cares about blacks. In the end of the book Lily explains what teenagers caller her at school because of her change. Lily says “Becca and I watch for Zach in the lunchroom and sit with him every chance we get, we have a reputation as nigger lovers.”(301) This shows how Lily has easy overcomes racial inequality. Lily is shown as racist in the beginning and a “nigger lover” by the end. Kidd wants to give the readers a message that racism is not right and can be changed, she shows this through lily in the

Open Document