The devastating tragedy of losing ones mother at an early age can drastically affect that persons life It can impact the way someone thinks corresponds with others and the way someone handles them emotionally In the novel The Secret Life of Bees Lily Owens loses her mother at the early age of four During Lilys journey she finds comfort and support in the women that she meets Throughout the novel Lily goes through many changes because of the impact of the motherly figures of the Black Mary Rosal
In the book The Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd main character Lily Owens is a very scared emotional young girl In the beginning of the book Lily is just a frightened young girl who is just trying to find out more about her mother Throughout the book she changes by her relationships with Zach August and her father TRay At the end of the book Lily begins to in fact see her true self as living with the Boatwright sisters and working with the bees In the beginning Lily learns how to have a fr
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd takes place in Sylvan and Tiburon South Carolina in 1964 In the novel Lily Owens leaves her home in Sylvan along with her stand in mother named Rosaleen in search for her dead mothers past She finds the town of Tiburon written on the back of her mothers picture of a black Virgin Mary When she gets to the town she discovers a big pink house where three African American sisters live and where the Virgin Mary picture came from The three sisters show Lily ne