Another example is when everyone starts playing in the sprinklers, their actions are playful, excited, and childish. The plot in “The Secret Life of Bees” is both exciting and interesting. This is because it shows how white and black people treated each other with disrespect even after The Civil Rights Movement. Also, it shows that Lily is determined to learn about her deceased mother, and along the way she meets The Boatwright sisters, Zach, and Neil. It is possible that this plot does or could happen in real life.
Huck Finn and Lily Owens Comparisons During and after reading both of these books, one cannot stop and think that the Secret Life of Bees was modeled from the plotline of The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin. Both of these books are far too similar for one to have not been influenced by the other. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn contains all of the major plot themes and conflicts present in the Secret Life of Bees. Huck and Lily both grow as people during these two books and their adventures are closely related with similar people along with similar events. The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin is about a boy who never really had much; he was born into rags and lived in rags his entire life until he was taken in by the Widow Douglas, who gave him clothes and tried to educate him.
Life’s journey is a struggle. However through this journey one is able to obtain a better understanding of life. It is the struggles that individuals overcome in life that defines ones true identity. The novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kid examines the struggles the protagonist; Lily overcomes to obtain a meaningful life at great length. The purpose of this paper is to attempt to reveal that when individuals encounter life’s obstacles, they are granted access to acquire a fulfilling life.
In The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd conveys the message that Lily learns to admire the little things in life and the people around her. With the loss of a mother at a young age a person’s life can significantly change, not always for the worst but also for the better. It can change the way someone thinks, handles problems, and control their emotions. This is the case with Lily Owens which loses her mother in a dreadful accident when she was only four years old. During her life journey she discovers many women to aid her and help her find herself.
Throughout The Secret Life of Bees, Lily, the main character of the novel, undergoes many important changes. These changes occur as she grows in her understanding of herself and the world that surrounds her. As Lily travels deeper into the South and is confronted more frequently with racism, her understanding and hatred for racism grow. In addition, Lily comes to terms with the death and absence of her mother. Lily finds peace within herself by seeking other means to fill the void left by her mother’s death and becoming spiritually linked with Our Lady Chains.
Dolphus Raymond. He relates it to himself in the context of racism towards him and his family and identifies it as the result of the white society of Maycomb not realizing that the black society is also human and equal. Throughout the book, the society in Maycomb is shown to be a very racist community, so racist that racism has been integrated into the culture of Maycomb. In this community, the black society is hated, and suppressed by the predominantly white society. Due to this, the black community is prejudiced against and does not ever get the chance to rise in society.
But this did not matter to Atticus; he went against everyone, and what everyone said just to prove that Tom was innocent. We are shown Tom Robinson’s humanity and point of view through Atticus’s actions, while the majority of the white population see Tom as just as inferior with no rights. Atticus was scorned by many of his fellow citizens because of his attitude that a black man should have the same rights as a white man. Atticus’s rejection of authority was felt by everyone in his town. His determination to defend Tom causes his own family grief from others in town.
During this particular time blacks in America had no rights. Society viewed them as niggers. Because of this prejudice many of them, like Crooks "retired into the terrible protective self-respect of the negro". Lennie is a victim of social prejudice in the fact that, being retarded, he couldn’t socially interact without the natural ease of George. Women also had very few rights, like Curley’s wife had to be dependent on Curley’s dad and him for shelter.
His own family disapproved of it. The reason for that was because they knew it was going to be biased. There were too many risks in taking that case. He risks being criticized by the townsfolk in Maycomb. Mrs. Dubose criticizes him at one point and says, “Atticus is a Nigger lover!” or when she says, “Your father’s no better than the niggers and trash he works for!” He also puts his re-election for legislature in jeopardy because of all the racist people living there.
He scared everyone he came into contact with and was labeled as the "breathless horror"(56) which made it impossible for him to socialize with any humans.Unlike Victor who chose to be alone. Valerie, in the other novel was isolated by ones who at one point, did love her. The creature was abandoned from the start, he was rejected and hated from the moment he opened his eyes. Complete isolation for Valerie doesn't happen until much later in her story. The horrible image of the creature's outward appearance physically isolated him from society.