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= = =** __The Secret Life of Bees.__ **= Syndi, Thalia Oris, Maciel, Shamaela,Saida Spring 2014
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 * || The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd || Scout bees look for a suitable place to start the new colony. ||  ||


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 * [[image:http://www.bookbrowse.com/images/authors/kidd_sue_monk.jpg caption="Author Image" link="http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm/author_number/820/Sue-Monk-Kidd"]] || Sue Monk Kidd was born in Albany, Georgia graduate from Texas christen university with a B.s in nursing 1970 and worked throughout he life as a registered nurse and college nursing instructor. she got her star in writing when a personal essay she wrote for a writing class was published in Guideposts and reprinted in Reader's Digest. Her first book **__God's joyful surprise__** in 1988 and **__When The Heart Waits__** 1990.__**The Dance of the Dissident Daughter**__ 1996 introduced themes from Feminist theology. Her first novel __**The Secret Life of Bees**__ 2002.HER Second novel, **__The Mermaid Chair__** was published in 2005 and mad into a lifetime movie of the same name.in 2006 **__First light__** a collection of Kidd's early writings was released in hardcover by Guideposts Books and in paperback by Penguin in 2007. The invention of wings, a novel released in January 2014 was selected for Oprah's Book club. ||




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** __ Content __ **

 * 1) Author
 * 2) Introduction
 * Characters
 * Setting
 * Plot
 * Point of view
 * Conflicts
 * 1) Lilly’s mother’s death
 * 2) ·Rosaleen went to register to vote
 * 3) Their escape
 * Themes
 * 1) Discrimination and racism
 * 2) Domestic abuse
 * 3) Civil right in the 60’s
 * 4) Mother- Daughter relationship
 * 5) Honey and bees

** Characters ** Here are the major characters: -Lily Melissa Owens: She is the main character in the book and the daughter of T.Ray and Deborah. -Rosaleen Daise: She takes care of lily after lily mothers died. - Terrence Ray: He is the father of lily. -Deborah: Lilly mother's name. -Mr. Avery Gaston: The police man who put Rosaleen in jail. · -Franklin Posey: This guy who hit Rosaleen when she wanted to vote. · -August Boatwright: She given a place to stay Lily and Rosaleen. She also has three sisters named June and may unfortunately April died in her early age. -Zach: He worked for August. And became a friend of Lily collecting the honey· -Neil: June’s boyfriend. And later they got married.

=**Setting**=

The novel **__The Secret Life of Bees__**, by Sue Monk Kidd, is set in Sylvan, South Carolina in 1964, where the Civil Right was a proved. Then the novel took place in Tiburon, South Carolina, where the drama begins.

= **The plot** =

Setting in South Carolina, The Secret Life of Bees is mostly about the little girl named Lilly. She lives with her father T-Ray (Terrence Ray) and has a baby sitter, Rosaleen. She never called him daddy because it never fit him. Her mother Deborah Owens died in December3, 1954. Unfortunately, Lilly only have a few memories about her mom. Lily has spent much of her life craving for her mother who died among strange accident when she was only four. She is strong girl who is trying to know more about her dead mother. Every times she would bring up the subject, T-ray would not tell her much. According to Lilly, He was the meanest person in the world; He never spent time with her and also punished her when he thought she did something wrong. Only Rosaleen would understand her. At the age of fourteen, she ran away with her nanny to know her mom’s past. **Point of view**   Lily Owens, a fourteen years old girl, had already developed a different meaning about life. At her short age, Lily has gone through different issues that have been constantly affecting her in a physiological way. Lily has experienced pain, loneliness, physical abuse, and the arduous time that was the high racial discrimination that existed in the 1960s. In spite of this motherless girl, she gives us a glimpse of how one’s willingness can take you to the adequate place. Lily’s determination of leaving her father T-Ray was an unaware decision that probably would involve many problems that she did not know- like when Rosaleen’s snuff jug poured on the white men’s shoes and both Lily and Rosalen got to the jail-that in any moment troubles could happen. However, leaving her father was an act of credibility of love as well. In this case, the searching of her mother’ life and death

**The Conflicts**  Lily had often dream about her mother, however she did not remember how she died. One day Lily and her dad were arguing, he said she was responsible for her mother’s death. Then she had a flashback about the situation. She remembered her parents fighting because her mother was leaving him. Deborah picked up the gun but dropped it. By mistake, Lily took the gun and shot her accidentally. Lily had had her mind twisted for a while because her father said her mother was leaving her.

When black women had finally the right to vote, Rosaleen took the opportunity to register to vote. While Lily and Rosaleen were heading to town, some white dudes were laughing at Rosaleen. She was at point where she could not take the jokes anymore. She spit her snuff’s juice on the men shoes. Unfortunately, Rosaleen and Lily were arrested. When they were in prison, Rosaleen got beat up. T-ray came for Lily but he could not do anything for Rosaleen.



Themes ·  Discrimination and racism: The black people mayn’t vote. These shows in the book when Rosaleen wanted to vote the white man start back of her. When she went to vote three man insulted Rosaleen and hit it her up they send her to the hospital. · Domestic abuse: When Lily’s father said bad things to her. When her father do oil on the floor because he wanted Lily felling down. T-Ray Lily's father keeps telling Lily that she killed her mother. · Civil right in the 60’s: The black people were not able to vote. Lily was traveling with Rosaleen who was a black raise it Lily. What people were going to think about a white girl traveling with a black woman? · Mother- Daughter relationship: Lily wishes to have a relationship with her mother, but her mother past away when she was litter. Lily misses her mother at lot while she wanted to found more information about her mother. Honey and bees: Lily sees the life is as same of bees they have honey moment but in any moment they could died same like her mother. **The title** ==== Sue monk kid named her book the secret life of bees because as a child she lived in South Georgia, she knew about the cruelty of racism. She thought she should write against the discrimination. In addition, in her house, they had a guest room where bees lived for many years inside the wall. She had had a lot of book to know more about the bees. Chapter one 3/10/2010 ====

== It begin in 1964, Lily the narrator who is a white girl how was about to turn fourteen, by that time Lily was trying to protect her mom killed her by mistake. It begins when T-Ray and her mom started to argue because she wanted to leave the house. T-Ray got in the room to stop from leaving. Then he approaches to her, then she pulled the gun, they tussle and it falls to the floor. In addition Lily was wondering what was going in the room, when she got in the room trying to help her mom, then she pick up the gun to give it to her mom and accidently shot her mom. Moreover, she was four years old when that happened and didn’t know what she had done to her mom. However Lily dreams about her mom everyday and misses her a lot. Rosaleen keeps the Owens house in order after the death of Lily mother. She cooks and has become the substitute mother for Lily. The bees appear in Lily room in the summer of the 1960 and Rosaleen told Lily that was a symbol of death. ==

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