Essays on The Secret Life Of Bees

In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, Lily runs away from home due to the abuse she receives from her father in search of a new life. Lily hopes to find a life where she can finally learn to love herself again despite the burden of guilt she carries from…

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is chronicled from the vantage point of a fourteen-year-old white girl named Lily Owens, over the course of the summer of 1964. Lily introduces herself to the reader as a nerdy, aloof teen from the town of Sylvan, South Carolina, whose household has been plagued with…

Conflict between a parent and a child happens in many families. As children get older they begin to speak their mind and do not always agree with the parent and what they have to say. Every family is different, and have their own source of conflict. In the novel The Secret Life of Bees, Sue…

In The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, fourteen-year-old Lily Melissa Owens grows from a child to a young adult without help from her parents. It is hard to grow yourself and educate yourself when you are alone. Lily’s father T-Ray was there but he was not supportive and did not love her…

Christ is held at the highest totem pole—at the head of the altar. No one quite compares with such a noble figure, which is why, of course, so many authors choose to do so. Sue Monk Kidd did just this in her novel entitled the Secret Life of the Bees when creating her main character…