The Secret Life Of Bees By Sue Monk Kidd

Losing a loved one helps you to rethink everything. If you want something in life, you have to fight for it. Right? In the novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, we learn what a grieving process can really do to a person. Main character, Lily Owens, loses her mother at a young age and further along begins to realize that maybe her whole life could be a lie. This young girl is fighting with her emotions and is going against reality to find out the real truth about her life and what really happened. Below is how the young girl manages to do all that and what struggles she faces while trying to find the impossible. This also shows a deeper look of how much this young girl grew mentally throughout the book.
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Rosaleen is a larger African American woman who was commonly disgraced due to the color of her skin. Lily felt trapped and sheltered her whole life. It was like Lily didn’t even have a life but if T-Ray had two. As it states on page 47, “But I had such a moment right then, standing in my own ordinary room. I hear a voice say, "Lily Melissa Owens, your jar is open.” By having this in the novel, it shows that Lily is struggling internally with her emotions and acts impulsively on them. Since she feels that T-Ray wouldn’t even care if she left, she decided to run away to gain her much needed freedom. “I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don’t even know it. (pg.63)” This quote shows that Lily learns after running away from home that people live life differently. She also learns that everyone experiences pain and that she is not alone. But this also shows that some end up seeing that pain and others are oblivious to

The sisters are all of African American descent and openly welcomed the runners to stay with them for as long as they needed to. While working on the bee farm with August, Lily begins to question herself because of a statement August had made. “Takes out the bad stuff, leaves in the good. I’ve always thought how nice it would be to have spinners like this for human beings. Just toss them in and let the spinner do its work.(pg.77)” Lily feels that these words were directed to her and felt like a bad person for the mistake of killing her mother. In a newspaper written by The Newcastle Herald, a statement stands out to the resemblance of this book and what the author is trying to show. As it states, “Lily finds solace in the guidance of the senior sister August, who holds the key to her past and slowly the rhythm of a new life with its funniness and sweetness is born…” THis helps to support my statement that Lily’s happiness and funniness grows when meeting and spending time with these girls. This was just the thing the young girl needed because at the time, Lily was feeling deep guilt for her actions. The sisters helped her to get her spark back after losing it for almost ten years. Also, a brief article by Aislinn McCormick, reveals a personal opinion that Lily “finally feels loved” while living with the Boatwright sisters. At the end of the book, Lily