She thought that herself was the problem, which made T rye aggressive and it was her fault not T-rays. So lilies faction was to improve it by leaving her dad and taking the only person who respected her Roselyn.. Rosalyn was alway a motherly figure to her worrying about her need and never let T rye effect her negatively But she knew lilys consequences (CD). Her dads sympathy for hus daughter is very minimal because she lie is becoming rality that she was the on that mad ehis wife and lilys mom leave/die. Lilys has many influences but the strongest pushed her to leave her home and wanted her to find her own way in life because she wasn't gonna deal with her dads abuse. Lily wants to be a writer, and has this fascination with bees.
Her intentions may be pure as she wants the best for Phoebe, but it doesn’t deny the fact that she’s also doing that for her own self preservation. Secrets that are kept for one’s own, selfish intention cause pain to other, no matter who they are. A different time secrets caused pain to others was when David comes back after days of being away with a pregnant girl named Rosemary. When Paul’s trying to convince his mother to let him stay home from school he describes her as talking calmly and with red eyes from crying (276). Norah is obviously hurt that David has come back with a pregnant girl as she assumes that Rosemary’s pregnant with David’s child.
She realizes that she needs to tell August Boatwright about her mother soon. Unfortunately, Lily finds out that her mother did leave her and T-Ray was telling the truth all along. Thus, Lily was upset about her mother; she comes to realize that not all secrets can be kept for so long it needs to come out to find the
There is only life” – said August Boatwright (Chapter 12). August is the only one who knows the story about Lily’s mother, she also the one who tells her the truth. When Lily finds out the story that her mother left her and run away, Lily shocked. But August is the one who guides Lily out of her misfortune life, August explains to Lily that her mother is a human, she can also make mistakes. This shows how life is imperfect from Kidd’s point of view.
Book report on The Secret Life of Bees Although the title is called The Secret Life of Bees, this book is not actually about bees. Lily was raised in a broken family. Her mother left her when she was little and her father did not represent the right father figure. The only person that actually loved Lily was ironically Rosaleen. The fact that Rosaleen truly cared for and loved Lily is ironic because Rosaleen is African American while Lily is White.
When Barbara introduces Verge to Den she simply says “this is Virginia”, Verge is strongly upset by this introduction and says “Verge. Verge. Verge. ‘Your daughter’, say.” After Verge and Den are introduced she says “Everyone else has got these mothers.” To Den, this statement clearly shows that Verge has a longing to have a closer relationship with her mother like other people have. When Barbara says that she will take her back to sunshine hostel Verge says “I don’t belong there.” She then goes on to say “I belong with you” while sitting down on her cases to indicate that she is not going to leave.
Following Atticus’s decision to defend Tom Robinson in Part Two, Aunt Alexandra takes it upon herself to relocate to Maycomb to help look after the children during the trial. She does not approve of Atticus’s involvement in the trial, nor does she believe he is doing a good job of raising his children to the standards becoming of the, “fine folk’ the Finches are. We quickly learn that Aunt Alexandra is a woman of her time and settles into the town, “as if she had always lived with us… Maycomb welcomed her.” At this stage Harper Lee is presenting Aunt Alexandra as a typical southern lady. The use of Scout’s naivety as a narrator, allows Lee to be subtly critical of many of the characters, including Aunt Alexandra.
The Sisters let Lily and Rosaleen stay at their house and they worked there. From the beginning August knew the truth about Lily, but she just waited until Lily told her the truth about why she ran away, August also knew Lily’s mother. Living there she worked with August and Zach. Rosaleen helped clean with May. Lily was happy living away from her abusive
The act of worshipping the Black Mary with those around her gives her a sense of comfort and belonging. Due to the fact that Tiburon is an unfamiliar place, Lily acts immature and naïve, yet prayer makes her realize that others can’t replace her mother, but act as
Because Skeeter’s parents weren’t a big part of her life as a child, they left their help to raise their daughter. Constantine encouraged Skeeter and gave her confidence. She taught Skeeter that each day she would have to decide wether or not she would listen to what others said about her. She also made Skeeter to believe that she could do what she wanted with her life, “All my life I’d been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine’s thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe” (00).