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Symbolism In The Secret Life Of Bees

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The Secret Life of Bees: Metaphor & Symbolism
Audre Lorde a revolutionary Black feminist once said “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” The book “The Secret Life of Bees” is about a little girl named Lily who is haunted by the memories of her mother and chooses to run away from her dad T.Ray with her caretaker Rosaleen. They both end up at a pink house in South Carolina and began to live with the Boatwright sisters. In the novel “The Secret Life of Bees” Sue Monk Kidd portrays the theme of the irrationally of racism through lily and metaphor and symbolism.
Lily is the main character, and narrator of her story, through her interactions she gains an understanding
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