Sue Monk Kidd's 'Secret Life Of Bees'

“Daddy!” Most often, this is a proclamation of joy, a child announcing happiness toward their father. However, in Secret Life of Bees, a novel brilliantly written by Sue Monk Kidd, this is a cry of despair, a plea for one’s life. This stirring story is the tale of a young white girl, Lily, who with her black nanny named Rosaleen, runs away from home in search of secrets and a better life. Although often portraying events similarly, the book occasionally contrasts the film, which lends itself to the fact that various techniques are necessary when using different mediums. Techniques such as repetition, sentence length, and metaphoric diction are present in the literature, whereas acting and sound are used on the big screen. This narrative, told

A prevalent film technique used to show Lily’s character was acting. Lily acted in such a way that a feeling of bravery emanated from her, opposed to the book in which she demonstrated cowardly behavior. One way the movie portrays her as strong is through her body language: she looks T. Ray in the eyes when he is talking to him, almost daring him to take her home. Her straight posture does the same thing; it gives off a sense of fearlessness and rebellion. Finally, her tone was bold and brazen, she wasn’t going to back down now. The everyday technique of acting was well used in showing Lily’s character of her developing bravery; she didn’t come out and say she was brave you could simply sense how resolute she was. Acting also revealed T. Ray’s character in this scene. However, T. Ray was the same in the movie as he was in the book. He was mean, pessimistic, and a brute. The most definitive cruel moment in the book I believe lies in this excerpt of the film. It lies in the moment where he, while yielding a knife, is grabbing Lily’s hair saying ‘Don’t leave me!’ His true unmasked character makes a starkly clear appearance in this scene. In rage, your true character often comes out, and this is the case for T. Ray. He shows his lack of any care for his daughter by being ready to severely hurt if not kill her to