Growing up. One of the most difficult things someone has to do, but everyone goes through it. A universal experience, Coming of age creates who we are and who we become. Lily from the book/movie The Secret Life of Bees is a big character who has faced coming of age. She lost her mother at the age of 4 and had an abusive father. Mercutio is a character from the play Romeo and Juliet he goes through coming of age with his wittiness and how he cares for others such as Romeo. Both learn about the importance of love, forgiveness, and the power of a community.
Lily a white girl in the 1960s goes through a significant coming-of-age journey throughout the novel The Secret Life of Bees. Lily carries the burden of shooting and killing her mother and she is not very close with her distant and abusive father. Lily and her caretaker Rosaleen began a journey to Tiburon, South Carolina, where Lily tries to find a sense of belonging and discover more about her mother. In Tiburon, Lily finds independence and a sense of self. May, June, and August take care of Lily and Rosaleen just as they did Lily's mother Deborah. The Boatwrites help Lily heal from her past trauma and Lily helps the sisters with their beekeeping and honey business. In the end, Lily realizes that she has a family and she does not need her
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Mercutio is a close friend of Romeo he is seen with wit, humor, and a quick temper. He is very independent and refuses to let others' expectations have a constraint on him. Mercutio begins to understand himself through interactions with other characters such as Romeo, he begins to find his place in the world. He has a deep commitment to himself and his identity disregarding the social norms. Even though he is a great character it gets to the best of him and leads to his death against Tybalt. Even though Mercutio is dead throughout some of the play he still lives