What would you do if a random girl asked to stay at your house? That was the situation that August Boatwright found herself having to think about in The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. In the book, Lily runs away from her house with Rosaleen, looking for answers about her mom and running from the police to Tiburon. She finds a house with August and her two sisters, letting Lily and Rosaleen stay. Eventually, August lets Lily and Rosaleen live at the house permanently. August is the most influential character in The Secret Life of Bees because of her generosity to Lily and the truths she tells her. The first reason that August is the most influential character to Lily is that she let Lily and Rosaleen live in their house.“"Well, you can stay here …show more content…
August told Lily the truth about her mother and comforted her about it, which makes her the most influential character. While August is influential, some say that Rosaleen is the most influential character to Lily, acting like the mother she didn't have.“We had just started to clean them up when T. Ray burst in, threatening to boil the chick for dinner and fire Rosaleen for being an imbecile. He started to swoop at the biddy with his tractor grease hands, but Rosaleen planted herself in front of him.”(Kidd 22) Lily brought a chick home and it made a mess, T.ray threatened to boil the chick but Rosaleen saved it. Rosaleen was the only one defending Lily in her younger years and was always protecting her from T.R.A. Rosaleen was always there for Lily when no one else was.Even with Rosaleen helping Lily in her younger years, August filled the same role at the house, and even made a bigger impact on her for the short time she was in her life compared to Rosaleen. August taught Lily how to be a beekeeper while teaching her many life lessons, she was also the one to tell her about her mom and had a bigger role in that part of the book compared to