Sofina Lin ENG4U Ms. Mirrlees July 27, 2015 The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Averhart, Cara J., Rebecca S. Bigler, and Lynn S. Liben. "Race and the Workforce: Occupational Status, Aspirations, and Stereotyping Among African American Children." Developmental Psychology. American Psychological Association, Inc., 20 Dec. 2002. Web. 26 July 2015. . This study, performed on 92 African American children (47 girls and 45 boys) from a school in the Midwest, examines whether African-American people’s
As orated in the quotation above, the Mary of Chains serves as a great object of growth for Lily to find her own inner self and to be her own mother. In The Secret Life of Bees Lily struggles to find and connect with her mother throughout the novel. In the novel Lily continually prays to the black Mary as a way to cope with her inner troubles, including with herself and her mother. Lily continues to look at her past and dwell upon the fact that she doesn’t have a mother, and because of that Lily
The Secret Life of Bees displays the way memories of someone’s past affects the way they live in the future and how difficult maturing and being who you really are is. A girl, Lily Owens, accidentally kills her mother and is haunted by the memory. She lives with the constant wonder of what her life could have been if that dreadful incident did not happen. Her father is still around, however they have a minimal relationship and he tends to be abusive towards her. It is not known if the abuse stems
Breanne DiBernard Mrs. Greenlee HN ENG III 01, June 2015 Independent Novel Project The Secret Life of Bees Knowledge Significance of Title Some readers seem to see the title as a simple play on word that characterizes the main topics of the book, but others find the title to be a bit deeper. Throughout the book bees are present in Lily’s life and they seem to influence her decisions and thinking. At the beginning the bees come to her room and leave when she doesn’t notice. For some reason Lily interprets