Essays on The Secret Life of Bees

Well known novels use contrasting strategies to portray a story to the reader. In the novels The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, several strategies are used to express the idea of self discovery. In The Namesake,…

Lily is the main character, protagonist, and narrator of her story. She is a fourteen year old white teenager growing up in Sylvan, South Carolina. When Lily first appears, she is beaten down, and punished by her father. At age four, Lily killed her mother…

In literature, the quest is a device that is commonly implemented into the plot of many stories. According to Thomas C. Foster in How to Read Literature Like a Professor, the five characteristics of a quest are a quester, a destination, a reason for going…

Journey of a Lifetime A journey from old places to new is bound to have a significant impact on one’s life. In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the protagonist Lily Owens sets off on a life changing journey for…

A Worker Bee Within Often hidden from even the most trusted of friends and family, secrets provide a certain mystery around an individual. Honey bees, in way, participate in the circle of life in a similar manner, their ways and cycles are kept for some…

Lily’s Change of Views “This is the moment I remember clearest of all-how I stood in the driveway looking back at them. I remember the sight of them standing there waiting. All these women, all this love, waiting”(Kidd 299). In the novel The Secret Life…