Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life Of Bees

Emotions, the cause of many different outcomes, and lingering thoughts. Those thoughts of ours can be as bad as an earworm, considering how it repeats over and over, until people begin to doubt themselves, but it’s worse when the thought is negative. It slowly becomes so irrational, and everything just becomes assumed. The author Sue Monk Kidd exemplifies this in her novel, “the Secret Life of Bees,” when the main character lies of her past and her feelings. Lies can affect ones feelings about him or herself, but they can’t define him or her. Lily, the main character in this novel is an insecure girl due to not only girls at school, but also her father, T-Ray, and his lies about her mother. By not having a motherly influence, lily didn’t have the example of a fine woman which is usually learned from girls’ mothers She even contemplated on going to an all girl school, in which it would teach her to be quote in quote “proper’. Rosaleen, as her housekeeper didn’t necessarily have a motherly influence on Lily, thus causing a lack of confidence in the teenage girl. This didn’t help the situation that Lily is haunted by the lingering thought of her mother’s death. In the end she ran away with her housekeeper Rosaleen, and to the only place she knew of, the

In the end, a person needs to adapt to the life that was lied about, that was , made up. Living the life of a lie and getting trapped in it, falling deeper and deeper into a cave that was made. This is so much worse than facing the consequences of the truth. Kidd was using these methods in her novel to reflect on how lies could get you places, but it would have the worst of consequences. in Lily’s case, she’s afraid to see what would happen if she broke the circle between august and herself. This only batters on her self-confidence, so until she tells the truth. it will only rage on with the consequences becoming