The Secrete Life of Bees

Dustin Gagen

From the novel “The Secrete Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd, comes Lilly an amazingly interesting teenager. I think her being an only child and living with T. Ray made her very different, in the aspects of her being very quite and not talking to anyone except Rosaleen. I think her drive to find out who her mother really was and what actually happened to her really made Lilly different form the rest.

In the beginning when she was just lying in her bed listening to the bees I think foreshadowed her going to live on honey harvesting farm. I believe Rosaleen gave Lilly the strength to be different, because Rosaleen herself wasn’t one to fallow the rules. Lilly’s courage to sneak away from home and then break Rosaleen out of the hospital was amazing, I think it really showed her lover for Rosaleen. When they reached Tiburon and got to Augusts house Lilly’s ability to make up a some what believable story was very remarkable. I think that how August just took Lilly and Rosaleen in was foreshadowing that August knew who Lilly was and knew her mother. I believe Zach’s part in the story was to so that Lilly really was a pretty girl if you got to know her, to give her a boost of confidence