Flashbacks

Flashback- is an interruption in sequence of events to relate events that occurred in the past.

In the secret life of bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the style of writing of the author makes the book more interesting when he adds Flashbacks. This makes the novel more interesting and makes the audience of people wanna read it more. The main character Lily Owens experiences many Flashbacks.
An example of Lily's Flashback is on pg 5 " The day she died was December 3,1954. The furnace had cooked the air so hot my mother had peeled off her sweater and stood in her short sleeves, jerking at the window in her bedroom, wrestling with the stuck paint. Finally she gave up and said ," well, fine, we'll just burn the hell up in here ,i guess." This is an example of a Flashback because Lily is remembering her mother how she spent the last moments with lily and how she was happy to be with her mother event thought she was like 4 years old.
Another example is on pg 7 " When i saw the gun in her hand, i ran toward her, clumsy and falling ,wanting to save her ,to save us all."
This quote is another example of Flashback because she's remembering when her mom died and how she died because she remembers she killed her and how she was so dumb for killing her own mom and blames herself.
These two quotes represent flashback because the author shows how Lily always thought about her mom and that she didn't mean to kill her.