Review Of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life Of Bees

Classics explore aspects of human identity and reveal how people struggle with mistakes and pain, how people realize their own childishness, and how to learn from mistakes. The Secret Life of Bees, set in the American South in 1964 amid racial unrest, tells story of Lily Owens, a white 14-year-old girl who is searching for the truth about her deceased mother. She lives on a peach farm with her cruel and abusive father, T. Ray, who tells Lily that she accidentally shot her mother, Deborah, when she was four. Lily accompanies the family’s black housekeeper, Rosaleen, to town to register to vote. Taunted by white men, she spills the contents of her snuff jar on their feet, is beaten, taken to jail, and later in the hospital. T. Ray reacts by punishing

She even lived during the time in which she wrote this novel. She saw and heard racism and hatred towards African America when she was growing up. The novel is based on Kidd's personal experiences of growing up in the segregated south. She puts her personal experiences of growing up in the novel to show how bad of an issue segregation was while she was growing up. Kidd used specified memories and social matters in her novel to show you how her life was as a child. She was an immensely religious woman and this is shown throughout the novel by the characters of the Boatwright sisters. Using the Boatwright sisters in her novel showed that she had brawny conviction. In the novel the Boatwright sisters created a church in their home to practice their beliefs which may have been unorthodox. Boatwright sisters and Kidd's beliefs were selfsame. She used her beliefs to create the novel and make the novel feel like you were living in it. Kidd lived in a very important part of history which shaped the world into what it is today and she wanted to show you her experiences in her novel by using her real life