The point of view is first person and viewing from Lilys thoughts and eyes. We everything from Lily. We hear everything that happends but from Lilys side. We are able to feel her pain and know how she feels. Also see howthings go as she grows.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Conflict
In this book there are two types of conflicts internal and external. the first problem internal, is about how Lily is not liking the way T.Ray is treating her for that she runs away and lives in the pink house for a while. The external conflict is about how T.Ray keeps treating Lily like she is her mother. At the end T.Ray finds Lily and thinks that Lily is her mother Deborah, so he grabbeds her and Lily screams "no T.Ray its me Lily" and her father relizes that and lets Lily stay.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Plot
Plot- Exposition, rising action ,climax ,falling action, resolution.
Lily Owens, a fourteen-year-old white girl, lives alone with her father, a peach farmer, in Sylvan, South Carolina. T. Ray, her father, is abusive. Lily remembers very last memory of her mother, Deborah, who died when Lily was a small kid. Lily thinks that she did a horrible thing in her moms death. T. Ray tells Lily that on the day her mother died. Deborah had returned home to pick up just her clothes, and to leave Lily behind.She then thinks she needs to run away with Rosaleen her nanny.
On the way, Lily feels free, as if a new life has begun for her. Rosaleen feels annoyed that Lily has broken the law only to head toward a town that she thinks her mother went to. Relaying on a picture of a black Mary.
Searching for this honey maker, she comes across the bright pink house of August Boatwright and her sisters. August invites Lily and Rosaleen to stay, although Lily makes up a fake story so she can stay at the house . August decides that Rosaleen will help her sister May Boatwright around the house and Lily will learn beekeeping.
Lily meets the honey farm helper, Zach an African American boy on she starts to crush on. He also starts having feelings for her as well and buys Lily a notebook so she can write stories.
Lily asks May if she ever knew anyone named Deborah Fontanel and finds out that she has. Lily now knows for sure that her mother once had been at the Boatwright house.
On her way to talk to August, Lily decides instead to ride with Zach into town to buy pieces for the car. In town Zach is with a group of black boys that assault a white man, and the entire group gets taken to jail. When Lily goes home, Clayton, the lawyer, has arrived to tell the Boatwrights that Zach has been arrested. They decide to hide the news from May, the sister that has emotional problems , because they know how upset she’d be. But May finds out and leaves the house alone. May then kills herself by drowning herself in the river. The next week is taken up with mourning and a funeral. Once another boy confesses, the crime that was committed against the white man Zach is let out of jail, unpunished.
Lily finds herself alone with Zach. He kisses her, and they vow to try to be together in the future.
Lily then goes to August’s room to wait for her. When August gets to her own room, Lily tells her the truth of her life, of how she ended up in Tiburon and of how she killed her mother. Lily’s worst fear, that Deborah had already left her when she returned home and was shot to death. Deborah had gone to the house only to pick up her clothes.
Days later, after she has recovered from her grief, her father arrives at the Boatwright house. T. Ray is angry and violent, Lily finally has the strength to confront him about the past and to call him “Daddy.” August convinces him to let Lily stay in Tiburon.
In the fall, she returns to school, which she attends with Zach and where she gets other friends. August and her community become Lily’s new family, and finally, Lily develops into a loved and loving person. She is finally happy with herself.
Lily Owens, a fourteen-year-old white girl, lives alone with her father, a peach farmer, in Sylvan, South Carolina. T. Ray, her father, is abusive. Lily remembers very last memory of her mother, Deborah, who died when Lily was a small kid. Lily thinks that she did a horrible thing in her moms death. T. Ray tells Lily that on the day her mother died. Deborah had returned home to pick up just her clothes, and to leave Lily behind.She then thinks she needs to run away with Rosaleen her nanny.
On the way, Lily feels free, as if a new life has begun for her. Rosaleen feels annoyed that Lily has broken the law only to head toward a town that she thinks her mother went to. Relaying on a picture of a black Mary.
Searching for this honey maker, she comes across the bright pink house of August Boatwright and her sisters. August invites Lily and Rosaleen to stay, although Lily makes up a fake story so she can stay at the house . August decides that Rosaleen will help her sister May Boatwright around the house and Lily will learn beekeeping.
Lily meets the honey farm helper, Zach an African American boy on she starts to crush on. He also starts having feelings for her as well and buys Lily a notebook so she can write stories.
Lily asks May if she ever knew anyone named Deborah Fontanel and finds out that she has. Lily now knows for sure that her mother once had been at the Boatwright house.
On her way to talk to August, Lily decides instead to ride with Zach into town to buy pieces for the car. In town Zach is with a group of black boys that assault a white man, and the entire group gets taken to jail. When Lily goes home, Clayton, the lawyer, has arrived to tell the Boatwrights that Zach has been arrested. They decide to hide the news from May, the sister that has emotional problems , because they know how upset she’d be. But May finds out and leaves the house alone. May then kills herself by drowning herself in the river. The next week is taken up with mourning and a funeral. Once another boy confesses, the crime that was committed against the white man Zach is let out of jail, unpunished.
Lily finds herself alone with Zach. He kisses her, and they vow to try to be together in the future.
Lily then goes to August’s room to wait for her. When August gets to her own room, Lily tells her the truth of her life, of how she ended up in Tiburon and of how she killed her mother. Lily’s worst fear, that Deborah had already left her when she returned home and was shot to death. Deborah had gone to the house only to pick up her clothes.
Days later, after she has recovered from her grief, her father arrives at the Boatwright house. T. Ray is angry and violent, Lily finally has the strength to confront him about the past and to call him “Daddy.” August convinces him to let Lily stay in Tiburon.
In the fall, she returns to school, which she attends with Zach and where she gets other friends. August and her community become Lily’s new family, and finally, Lily develops into a loved and loving person. She is finally happy with herself.
Dialogue
During the story there is allot of dialogue and interaction between the main characters (Lily, Rosaleen, August, Zach, May, June). The dialogue in the story reveals shocking secretes and important information that moves the story along. For example, One day Lily's curiousity started to develope questions about August and her life. " So what did you before to came here?" She gave me a teasing look that seemed to say, My goodness you sure do wanna know allot of things, but then she dived right in, her hands not slowing down one bit pasting labels' (page 145).
' Ok, I thought here goes. I said " May did you ever know A Deborah? Deborah Fontanel? A white women form Virginia? It would have been a long time ago."
" oh yess, Deborah Fontenal. She stayed out there in the honey house. She was the sweetest thing." (page 173). As shown through open conversation or Dialogue the characters discuss important parts of the story that keeps the book interesting.
' Ok, I thought here goes. I said " May did you ever know A Deborah? Deborah Fontanel? A white women form Virginia? It would have been a long time ago."
" oh yess, Deborah Fontenal. She stayed out there in the honey house. She was the sweetest thing." (page 173). As shown through open conversation or Dialogue the characters discuss important parts of the story that keeps the book interesting.
Characterization
Characterization is the method the author uses to describe the character. The author uses flashbacks to describe Lily Owens. The author takes you back to the time when lily killed her mother. without these flashbacks, you would have never known what this girl has to go through everyday. "What i know about myself. She was all i wanted. And i took her away." this was said after a flashback of her killing her mother. Without this flashback and quote. You would never understand why and how T Ray was so mean, or why lily was very different from the other girls. Lily never had a mom when she needed one, but the author shows through Lily's reactions towards Rosaleen that she is her mother figure. Throughout the story, the same flashback repeats itself, it just becomes more vivid, and as you learn more about lily and Lily learns more about herself, the flashback is full and u know exactly what happened on the day she killed her mother.
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.
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.
Symbolism
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Symbolism
Symbolism: anything ( object, animal, event, person, or place) that represents itself but also stands for something else on a figurative level
The Secrete Life of Bees represents allot of meaning. The most important part of the whole story shows allot of strong symbolism. One day after working in her father's peach orchard, Lily's emotions started to run high. She became fed up with the way she was living with T-Ray. She then set out to find answers.
"The jar is open" (page 41) the voice said. Lily could not comprehend where the voice came from but it was telling her to free herself. This was a very important part of the story because the voice led Lily to turn her life around to find truth. The story changed drastically because lily ended up running away. Her plan was to dig up the roots of her family. T- Ray had never exposed her to her family and that's what led to her to curiosity. Without that voice would she know the truth? Would she be able to live on with her life?
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