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In what ways is this introductory quote relevant to the events of Chapter 5?
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In what ways is the new hive an adjustment for Lily and Rosaleen?
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The introductory quote is relevant to the events in chapter 5. Rosaleen and Lily have to deal with the Boatwright sister’s troubles. Lily has to deal with June hating her for no apparent reason other than the fact that Lily is white. Everyone also has to deal with may when she breaks down and starts singing “Oh! Susanna”. ” A few times she cried so bad, ranting and tearing her hair, that Rosealeen had to come get August from the honey house”
ReplyDeleteThe new hive is an adjustment for Lily and Rosealeen. They really have never worked with bees before they meet the Boatwright sisters. This is a new experience for them that they will have to get used to if they want to live in their house.” ‘This ain’t charity’ said Rosealeen when August spread them across the kitchen table. ‘I’ll pay it back’. ‘You can work it off’ said August”
The introductory quote to chapter five, “Let's imagine for a moment that we are tiny enough to follow a bee into a hive. Usually the first thing we would have to get used to is the darkness..." is relevant to the events in chapter 5 because Lily and Rosaleen are figuratively “in the dark” about their new home. They are metaphorically entering a new hive and they have to figure out the other bees and their place within the hive. They understand that May is “simple-minded.” August seems like a no nonsense woman, but she can be kind and caring most of the time. May and August seem to welcome Lily and Rosaleen into the “hive.” And then there is the other sister. Lily notices that one of the “bees,” June, doesn’t really want them there. On page 86, Lily comments, “I could tell she was still bristled at the idea of me and Rosaleen staying; it was the one sore point about our being here.” It occurred to Lily that June doesn’t want Lily there because of her skin color. Lily is getting used to all kinds of darkness: the mystery connected with her mother; the reality of an abusive father; and the need to fit in, in a new home.
ReplyDeleteThere are many ways that the new hive is an adjustment to Lily and Rosaleen. First of all, they have to have responsibilities and carry their weight. Lily learns that she is going to assist August with beekeeping. Rosaleen discovers that she’ll be a housekeeper. On page 84, this is confirmed. Kidd writes, “I spent my time in the honey house with August while Rosaleen helped May around the house.” Another change in the lives of Lily and Rosaleen was the use of honey for everything. The book says, “We live for honey. We swallowed a spoonful in the morning to wake us up and one at night to put us to sleep.” Honey was also used to calm the mind, produce stamina, prevent fatal disease, disinfect, in baths, as skin cream, and obviously in food. Furthermore, “Beeswax was a miracle cure for everything.” Getting used to honey was easier than understanding their new housemates. Each of them had their own special personalities. August was stable, June was bitter, and May was emotionally challenged. By the end of chapter 5, Lily lies in the dark wondering if she can adjust to her new “hive.” She thinks, “I sat there and studied the darkness, trying to see through it to some sliver of light.” {page 101} The reader wonders if Lily and Rosaleen will adjust to their hive.
In Chapter 5, the Boatwrights’ house puts Lily and Rosaleen into “darkness” because they aren’t used to living that way. In the beginning, they are lost just like they would be in a beehive, because they don’t know how things work there, since it is so different from their past lives. The darkness that they feel in the beginning is a good thing because it results in the two of them receiving a better quality of life. This “darkness” and very different life is shown on Page 82 when Lily says “The world will give you that once in a while, a brief time out,… where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.” Once they pass the stage of getting used to their new life, the feeling of darkness, is gone.
ReplyDeleteThe new hive is an adjustment for Lily and Rosaleen, because they are treated much better with the Boatwrights. Lily finally has the feeling of a mother and a caretaker since the sisters guide her and teach her lessons. This comfortable life is very different than the abuse that Lily endured during her time with her father. Rosaleen’s life is adjusted for the better since the Boatwright’s are not racist towards Rosaleen like many other people were, including Lily’s father. On Page 82, it says “The first thing they did was take care of Rosaleen’s clothes.” This is very different from her past life, because she never had the opportunity to get new clothes or be taken care of.
This quote is relevant to chapter 5 because they have to get used to all the things that are happening to them. They are learning about why May acts the way that she does, what to do around the house, and they are all becoming new friends. August explained “If you kept things on a happy note, May did fine, but bring up an unpleasant subject…and May would start humming ‘Oh! Susanna.’” June is still suspicious about Lily and wants answers, but she knows Lily needs a place to live. Rosaleen and Lily are helping with May by bringing her to the wall when something bad happens. Lily is becoming friendlier with June because she is spending more time with June. She is also becoming friends with Zach and is helping him by working in the bee house.
ReplyDeleteThe new hive is an adjustment for Lily and Rosaleen because they are learning new things. Lily is happier living in this house once she gets used to it. She says, “I loved the silliness of it. Singing made me feel like a regular person again.” Lily is learning how to act around May and how to keep her calm. She is used to living with her father, but now she is living with only women. They are treating her very nice compared to how Lily’s father treated her. Rosaleen is becoming more friendly with the sisters because she knows that they are going to be there for a while helping out. Lily wants to know more about her Mother but she is afraid to ask anything about her because the sisters may not know who she is, or they might ask her to leave. They will continue to learn new things and become friendlier with the sisters and the other people that they are working with.
It all began the moment June answered the door, May soon following behind. It was almost like Lily and Rosaleen were playing the roles of lost kids in a store. They were completely new to their surroundings. The introductory quote at the beginning of the chapter relates to the pair because they are getting used to their new “home.” “The first week at August’s was a pure relief.” Lily opens the chapter with that simple sentence, which proves that it wasn’t so hard to adjust at all. Besides occasionally missing her mother, she never really gets homesick.
ReplyDeleteThe smell of pancakes cooking wafts through the pink house, and the sound of toast springing to life from the toaster wakes up the rest of the slumbering residents. Living with the calendar sisters is a whole new world for Lily and Rosaleen. They finally have some sort of real home, and a place to feel safe. “The world will give you that once in a while, a brief time-out; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.” They feel as if they almost fit in living in the home of the Boatwrights. I think that this new experience is especially nice for Rosaleen, since there aren’t any mentions of friends of hers in the book. It’s good for her (and also Lily) to be able to bond and create more positive relationships with others. Getting used to darkness can be difficult in the real world, and it can take time. Sometimes it’s not all that hard, like in Lily and Rosaleen’s situation. Most of the time, the hardest part is adjusting to something new that you are naïve and ignorant to. But often, the outcome is great; you come out overflowing with new experiences and intelligence.
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ReplyDeleteWhen the lights are turned off, your eyes adjust to the darkness. This adjustment takes time, and patience. And, that’s quite similar to Lily and her situation. The quote in the beginning of chapter five reflects, and is relevant to how Lily adjusted and got situated into the Boatwright’s house. Getting used to something takes time and work. Whether it’s getting used to the darkness of the beehive or the pink house and the bee farm, adjusting is learning new things, adopting new habits, and getting to know new people (or some bees, in Lily’s situation.) In the chapter, Lily got to know what “Bee yard etiquette” was, she learned the Honey Song, and who May, August and June really are. The quote foreshadowed the chapter in the sense that the beehive was the Boatwright’s house, and the darkness of the hive was everything in and around the house. “I learned how to run a steam-heated knife along the super, slicing the wax cap off the comb…” this excerpt from page 84 shows that Lily is in fact adjusting to the ways of the Boatwright sisters, just like a bee has to adjust to its dark hive. During the Holocaust, the Franks had to adjust to their new living arrangements in the annex. Just like Lily, both adjusted to their new lifestyles.
The new hive, really known as the Boatwright’s house was a big adjustment to Rosaleen and Lily. Every night Lily and Rosaleen would join the sisters in praying by Mary. Each day they would ingest honey. On a daily they would witness May going to the Wailing Wall or crying. Lily would work on the bee farm with August and Rosaleen now helped in the kitchen with May. Back in Sylvan, Lily would work the peach stand and Rosaleen helped in the house. Now, Lily has learned new bee farming skills and has freedom from T-ray. And, Rosaleen isn’t discriminated like she was in Sylvan. By living in the new house, Rosaleen and Lily have adjusted to the new life style in a variety of ways. “It was May who taught me the Honey song… singing made me feel like a normal person again… I loved the silliness of it… it said everything about living here.” As Lily explains the Honey song on page 83, it shows her adjustment to her new living arrangements and lifestyle. Instead of living in fear with T-ray, Lily is finally breaking away and learning the happier side of life and all that it beholds. When weather gets colder, birds fly south for the winter. Those birds adjust to the warmer weather by adopting new habits. It was an adjustment for them, but well worth the warmer weather. Just like Lily, a new lifestyle calls for adjustment, but in the end, you don’t regret it.
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Gianni Spinella
Miss Drosdick
Language Arts/Period 7
3/26/14
Option F
The introductory quote is similar to chapter 5 because in this chapter Lily and Rosaleen had to deal with the Boatwright sisters’ personalities. August was always welcoming and loving towards Lily and Rosaleen and she never was a problem. May has been a surprising person throughout the chapter. First it started with her hollering “Oh, Susanna!” and then she acted like all the problems in the world were her own and she would hysterically cry. Someone like this would be very difficult to adapt to. June on the other hand is another story. Lily has had to be very self-conscious of her skin color since she moved in. Lily overheard June making comments about her skin color to August. According to page 85 it says, “ It was Rosaleen who figured out the mystery of, “Oh! Susanna.” She said if you keep things are happy note, made it fine, but bring up an unpleasant subject-wake Rosaleen’s head full of stitches for the tomatoes having rot-bottom-it would start humming, “Oh! Susanna.” It seemed to be her personal way awarding off crying. It work for things like tomato rot, but not for much else.” This shows how May’s negativity was quite unusual and Lily had to get used to it. Also in the text on page 87 it says, “ ‘But she’s white, August.’ This was a great revelation- that I was wait but that it seem like you might not want me here because of my skin color. I hadn’t known that this was possible-to reject people for being white.” This proves that Lily overheard a conversation between June and August, and that June was emphasizing the fact that Lily has white skin. This was diverse for African Americans to be making a big deal out of white people. Usually white people would be the ones who would segregate the African Americans.
The new “hive” is a major adjustment to Lily and Rosaleen because they are now working jobs. This is not a new concept for Rosaleen but it is most definitely for Lily. The catch to the siters letting Lily and Rosaleen live with them is that they have to work. Lily is working with August at the bee farm and Rosaleen is working with May doing chores around the house. Lily must adjust to working with August and the bees. Rosaleen must grow accustomed to working around the house with other people helping and other African American females. Rosaleen is used to working alone and just with Lily and T.Ray. On page 93 it states, “ ‘ We have to make sure the queen has plenty of room to lay her eggs, or else we’ll get a swarm,’ she said. ‘What does that mean, a swarm?’ ‘Well, if you have a queen and a group of independent-minded bees that split off the rest of the hive and look for another place to live, then you get a swarm. Though usually cluster on the limb somewhere.’” This shows that Lily had to get used to her knew job and ask many questions about how things worked and what to do and what new things were. Also on page 82 in the novel it says, “ ‘ This ain’t charity,’ … ‘I will pay it all back’ ‘You can work it off,’ said August.” This shows how Rosaleen will be working. This is similar to a dog going into a new house. You can notice how the dog will sniff around and explore and adapt to the new house and not get lost. Like Lily gets used to working by asking questions. Rosaleen gets used to new people and is determined to repay all that the sisters have done for her.
The quote relates to chapter 5 with Lily and Rosaleen. This is due to the fact that Lily & Rosaleen have work in order to stay with the Boatwright sisters. With T-Ray out of the picture the two are gonna be seeing some new and friendly faces. The new home Lily & Rosaleen will be staying in will involve beehives, and cleaning. It doesn't seem to bother Lily though. Even on page 91 when August was telling Lily their mother's story Lily commented "I'm not tired of my chores."
ReplyDeleteLily and Rosaleen are gonna have to adjust to living with labor and new people. June already protested not keeping Lily due to her skin color so that is something she is forced to get used to. On page 87 Lily doesn't wanna explain her reasons of staying. When August takes her side June replies with "But she's white!" She also said "I don't see that we owe her anything!"
In what way does the quote to chapter 5 relate to the events? This quote is basically saying that you need to get used to the “hive”. This quote relates to the chapter because Lily and Rosaleen need to get used to May always crying and saying “Oh! Susanna”. Lily also needs to get used to the fact that June doesn’t like her because of her color. According to page 87 it states “But she’s white, August.” This shows how June is judging Lily by her color. Basically Lily and Rosaleen need to get used to the Boatwright sisters. June is like the person yelling at Elizabeth in the photo. In Language Arts I learned about the Civil Rights era. June judging Lily for her skin color is something similar that would have happened in the Civil Rights ear. This is how the quote relates to chapter 5.
ReplyDeleteHow is this new hive an adjustment for Lily and Rosaleen? This new hive is an adjustment for the two because Lily has to work with bees and she has never done that before. Now that they live In the Boatwright home they need to work every day. According to page 82 it states “this ain’t charity said Rosaleen when August spread them across the kitchen table. “I’ll pay it back”. “You can work it off,” said August.” This shows that now they need to work in order to show the Boatwright’s that they deserve to stay and show they aren’t just taking advantage of them. Lily and Rosaleen are like animals because if they stop working they will be homeless, just like if an animal stops hunting, it will die. A prediction can be made that Rosaleen and Lily will work super hard because that is the only way for them to stay in the home. This is how the hive is a new adjustment to them.
The first thing that Jackie Robinson had to get used to I'm the major leagues was racial discrimination. People jeered nasty and cruel names at him as he played, and he ignored them as if they were nothing but the wind. He became used to the "darkness" of the hive that is major league baseball. The quote about getting used to the darkness of a beehive pertains to chapter five mainly because of the racial differences between Lily and the Boatwright sisters. "That was a great revelation-not that I was white, but it seemed like June might not want me here because of my skin color." This was the thought that was going through Lily's mind as she was trying to get used to the "darkness" or in this case the racial differences and tensions. Lily staying with the Boatwrights has some obvious tensions and differences but in order to stay Lily will have to get used to dealing with the "darkness" of the hive.
ReplyDeleteLily and Rosaleen majorly adjusted their lives when they started staying with the new "hive." Since they've been living with the Boatwrights, their daily routine has morphed into an entirely new creature."Each night after the news, we all knelt down on the rug in the parlor before black Mary and said prayers to her, or rather the three sisters and I knelt and Rosaleen sat on a chair." Never in a million years would T.Ray have let Lily pray to a black Mary. Also, the only time when Lily was on her knees is when T.Ray made her kneel on the Martha Whites as his form of a cruel punishment. Another positive change in their daily routine at the Boatwrights house is that they are treated kindly by August and May. Overall, the change in Lily and Rosaleen's daily routine is as obvious as night and day.
ReplyDeleteOne picture and one word lead Lily and Rosaleen to a place like Heaven, but, before they enjoyed the perks, they needed to experience the downs. The introductory quote, “Let's imagine for a moment that we are tiny enough to follow a bee into a hive. Usually the first thing we would have to get used to is the darkness...” is relevant to the events of Chapter 5 because Lily and Rosaleen follow a trail her mother left to Tiburon and need to get used to the new place and it’s residents. One thing Lily needs to adapt to is June’s mistrust her, for the sole reason of her skin being white. Due to the fact that Lily had previously been aware that some Negros may have prejudiced thoughts towards Caucasians she now claims, on page 89, “I felt white and self- conscious sitting there, especially with June in the room. Self-conscious and ashamed”. Suddenly, Lily’s small dose of racism causes her to realize what discrimination truly felt like for Negros in that time period or Jews during the Holocaust. Lily begins to recognize that there are people with struggles worse than hers, in this case May’s twin April. Once, when August and Lily were talking, the reasons for May’s inability to cope with sadness came up. On page 96, Lily writes, “August said… ‘It’s not a pretty story’ ‘My story’s not pretty either,’ I said, and she smiled.” Lily realizes that the life she had been moaning about is not nearly of the magnitude of pain that others, like April, struggled with. The introductory quote is alike to Chapter 5 because both are about adjusting to a new location: for Lily, she must adapt to the residents inside and their backstories, too.
The new hive is an adjustment for Lily and Rosaleen because they are now out of the abuse fro T. Ray and into a world of learning new things and kindness. On page 84, Lily proudly touts that, “I learned how to run a steam-heated knife along the super, slicing the wax cap off the combs, how to load them just so into the spinner.” This emphasizes how different this new world is for Lily since the previous one discouraged learning, like her passion of literature, and this place is oriented on learning the tricks of the trade for beekeeping.bIt is almost like a parallel universe in a science fiction novel because they are opposites like heaven and hell. Additionally, on page 84, Lily asserts, “I caught on so fast she [August] said I was a marvel. Those were her very words: Lily, you are a marvel.” Previously, Lily had rarely been complimented, so this positive comment meant a lot to her and her meager amount of self- esteem. Even Rosaleen first-handedly experienced the generous nature of the sisters, especially August, as the first thing that the calendar sisters did was “take care of Rosaleen’s clothes” on page 82. This new hive in Tiburon, painted a brilliant pink hue, is a major alteration from Lily and Rosaleen’s former home with T. Ray due to the fact that, here, they acquire new skills and receive large amounts of benevolence.
Lily wasn’t sure that she’d fit in the Boatwright house and June confirmed her insecurity. Especially when she pointed out Lily was white. Lily thought to herself “I hadn’t known this was possible-to reject people for being white.” The introductory quote is relevant to this because Lily knew she was going to have to accept her differences from the Boatwrights. When she heard June not accepting the difference between her and Lily changed everything. Metaphorically, June “did not get used to the dark” because during this time the crevice between skin colors took over her thoughts and she didn’t look past it.
ReplyDeleteRosaleen and Lily finally found shelter away from T.Ray, but they were in a completely new environment, they weren’t sure how to act. When Rosaleen said to August she’d pay August for the new clothes, August replies with “You’ll work it off.” as if it were a normality to do that. When it comes to owing someone normally you’d pay with money. In some cases, like Amulet the trouble the Elf Prince caused was eventually owed by changing sides. It was hard because he had to gain trust and understand how a really friendship worked. Like Lily and Rosaleen will most likely go through in The Secret Life of Bees.
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This quote relates to chapter five because Lily is walking into a whole new world and something she hasnt been around before. Rosaleen is slowly losing contact with Lily because she has almost become apart of the hive in a different way that Lily has. Lily is now spending all of her time with Zach and Rosaleen is with August and May.
ReplyDeleteAdjustments that Lily and Rosaleen have had to make is not being around each other all that much. I feel that this is slowly breaking them apart and they will look at each other differently than how they did before moving into the Boatwright house. Lily is also adjusting to the new hive because she kinda has a thing for Zach and we'll see how that works out
You flutter your eyes open and find yourself in a house that you’ve never seen before. As you begin to explore, you realize that things around here aren’t the same as what you are used to. It takes some time, but you begin to adapt to this new place. This scenario relates to the introductory quote at the beginning of Chapter 5. The quote states, “Let's imagine for a moment that we are tiny enough to follow a bee into a hive. Usually the first thing we would have to get used to is the darkness..." In Chapter 5, Lily and Rosaleen have to get used to how things work in the Pink House. August helps Lily by teaching her how to do some helpful things. Lily stated, “I adjusted the flame under the steam generator and changed the nylon stockings August used to filter the honey in the settling tank.” This shows that Lily is “getting used to the darkness” (in this case, beekeeping) in the bee house when helping August. In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry is thrown into Hogwarts where everyone is magical. Like Lily, he needed to adapt to his new surroundings.
ReplyDeleteThis “new hive” is a huge adjustment for Lily and Rosaleen. They both need to adjust their lifestyles to fit in with the Boatrights. Rosaleen had to learn how to work with someone else rather than working solo like she had in the past. She also had to learn to deal with May’s loving nature towards bugs and animals. Lily recalls, “But what really drove Rosaleen crazy was May catching spiders and carrying them out of the house in the dustpan.” While Rosaleen had things to get used to, Lily was having problems of her own. She had to learn all about beekeeping and she had to also adapt to people giving her strange looks because she lived with African Americans. Both Lily and Rosaleen had to get used to sleeping in the hot bee house on tiny cots. Another thing they had to get used to was walking back to the Pink House to use the bathroom at night. In The Walking Dead, Rick wakes up from a coma to find the world overrun with zombies. Like Lily and Rosaleen he has to learn to adjust to this new environment.
Chapter 5 of The Secret Life of Bees is when Rosaleen and Lily begin life at the Boatwright household. The quote “Let's imagine for a moment that we are tiny enough to follow a bee into the hive. Usually the first thing we would have to get used to is the darkness…,” is relevant to the events in chapter 5 because this quote represents the introduction of Lily and Rosaleen to the Boatwright home. While everything appears to be happy in the house, there is still sadness in May’s depression and April’s death which represents the darkness. Also, Lily has to deal with June’s hatred for her. On page 95, August says about May “Everything just comes into her – all the suffering out there – and she feels as if it is happening to her. She can’t tell the difference.” This quote is explaining how there is something wrong with May and that she is one of the sisters that create the darkness for Rosaleen and Lily have to get used to. It must be hard for them to get used to this because they haven’t seen a type of behavior like this ever before and it can be related to people that move to other countries because there is always that dangerous or harsh thing, which is the darkness in the quote, that they have to get used to in order to be excepted in the hive.
ReplyDeleteLily and Rosaleen both have to adjust to their new hive but it might not be as easy as they think. The new hive is an adjustment for Lily because she has to become a beekeeper and a honey farmer which is something she hasn’t done. She is getting adjusted to her new job by August training her to be able to do this job successfully. Rosaleen is adjusting to the new hive by working with someone else to clean the house, she used to work alone to clean the house. She is being told what chores she has to do by May who is her partner that also cleans the house. On page 92, Lily narrates “I hadn’t been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called ‘bee yard etiquette’.” This quote shows that Lily has no idea what she is doing because she has never worked with bee hives before, but August is helping her adjust to her new job by teaching her the lesson of “bee yard etiquette.” This situation is just like The Giver because Jonas had to adjust to becoming the giver who was able to see colors and shades that all the other citizens couldn’t, so it was harder for him because he had no one to help him adjust to what those colors actually meant.
The introductory quote to chapter 5 is relevant in different ways. Lily has a lot of darkness going on in her mind, she has to deal with June not liking her and discovering how April died. “Excuse me, June Boatwright, but you don’t even know me!” She has to constantly live at the Boatwright sisters house knowing that June doesn’t like her. Learning more about April’s death might have also leaded her to certain darkness. April committed suicide because of all the unfairness in the world, the inequality that was going on around her. The bees live in a world of darkness, but not the same kind. The world they live in is physical darkness, while the world we live in is mostly emotional darkness. Lily has to cope with many things going on in her head, and most of them aren’t good. This is how the introductory quote relates to chapter 5.
ReplyDeleteIt was a big adjustment for Lily and Rosaleen. They are living in what started as a stranger’s house, not too long ago. ”Well, Miss Williams, you can start work tomorrow.” They have to work for August on the bee farm. Lily went from being treated cruelly to having people treat her nicely. August acts like a mother to Lily. This is an adjustment to how she used to live, constantly hoping that T. Ray would like her even the slightest bit. But, that didn’t happen, or at least he didn’t show it to Lily. They have more people living in the house, than there was at T. Ray’s house. Lily and Rosaleen made new friends, all because Lily decided to leave her old house. The Boatwright sisters are nice to Lily and Rosaleen, which didn't happen often back in Sylvan. Lily feels like she actually belongs, rather than just being there, but never really fitting in. These are some of the adjustments that Lily and Rosaleen adjusted to the new hive.
The chapter 5 introductory quote relates to the events of Lily and Rosaleen moving in. The quote is symbolizing the hive to be The Boatwright’s house. The people tiny enough to fit in are Lily and Rosaleen. The darkness in the quote relates to the unknown, and the worries of going into an unfamiliar and different place. It turned out alright, as page 82 starts off by saying “The first week at August’s was a consolation…” Much like how in “Of Mice and Men”, George and Lenny were going into a brand new job with brand new people after their incident.
ReplyDeleteThe new “hive” was surely a huge adjustment. For one, Lily’s knees are probably more relaxed from not kneeling on T-Ray’s Martha Whites. Lily also had to possibly adjust to living with “colored” people, as they were called back then. On page 87, Lily overhears a conversation between August and June where June says that Lily should not be trusted “because she’s white”. Obviously, racism was a lot more severe towards black people, but Lily has just realized that prejudice works the other way around. I’m sure this was an actual occurrence back in the civil rights era. This may have been a problem when white people had tried to help get African Americans their rights. Perhaps some thought that white people were lying and just trying to make things worse. Thankfully, in the end, we were able to work out our differences and create equality.
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ReplyDeleteAt the beginning of every chapter in The Secret Life of Bees, there is an interesting quote about bees, not only is it there but it always seems to relate to the chapter. Let's imagine for a moment that we are tiny enough to follow a bee into a hive. Usually the first thing we would have to get used to is the darkness..." this was the beginning to chapter 5. This refers to Lily's and Rosaleen's immersion in the Boatright home, there is a great happiness and love on the surface, but there is also darkness in April's suicide and May's depression.. Explaining why may was the way she was, was in the quote “When April died, something in May died, too. She was never normal after that. It had seemed that the whole world became May’s twin sister.” Found on page 97. Also on page 97 it explains April’s death. “….when April was fifteen, she took our father’s shotgun and killed herself.”
In this community of women, Lily comes to find the love she so desperately wants. She is attracted to the family atmosphere, as she had never truly had the same experience and she is attracted to the way the sisters love and protect each other. Lily has lied about her identity, her past, and Rosaleen's injuries. Lily is keeping lots of secrets from the Boatrights. Lily has come up with a fake identity, and story. June is also too wise for this and calls them out, but not to them but to her sister August. One example of June’s doubts is “What if her father didn’t die in this so-called tractor accident.”