Secrets In Sue Monk Kidd’s novel The Secret Life of Bees Lily Owens is seeking to find the truth behind her mother Deborah Owens’s death. Since her mother’s death Lily’s life is incomplete, she hears stories from her father (who she calls T-Ray) about her mother but does not believe them. She has been living with guilt since that one night after killing her mother. T-Ray tells Lily that her mother ran away and left her behind, Lily believes he is just saying to punish her, and does not believe what he says. She says, “What if my mother leaving wasn’t true?
She was again left with Martha as her mother went back to work on the passenger trains. Billie began skipping school and her mother had to attend truancy court. As a result of that in, January 1925, at the age of 9 Billie was placed at the House of The Good Sheppard, which was a Catholic Reform School for troubled African American girls. (Billie Holiday, 2012) She was there for nine months and then was released on parole. Her mother became a business owner by opening a restaurant and Billie worked there with her.
At seven Walker lost both of her parents to yellow fever. Madame CJ Walker had to be cared for by her older sister. As a young girl she had to pick cotton, but when the cotton crops had failed, her and her sister had to move, but found work as washwomen. Her sister married an abusive husband, and Madame Walker left home at 14 to escape the abuse. Soon after she married and had a child, but became a widow a few years later.
She lived on the plantation with her family until she was nine, which was when she was sold to a new master because the previous one had died. Serving her new master was very difficult because she only knew Dutch with the new family spoke only English. Therefore, she received many beatings and punishments for the constant miscommunication. Then, about a year and a half later she was sold again to John Dumont of New Paltz, New York. Again, she suffered many harmful
Because the court didn’t find any evidence Hans-Erik was set free, and Mikael was give three months in jail. At the same time Lisbeth Salander is trying to adapt to her new guardian. He knows all about her dark past, and abuses her on the strongest, but later in the book she takes revenge. It is when Mikael comes back from prison all the attempts to murder him starts, and he suddenly doesn’t feel safe on the island. This story his build up like a rollercoaster.
She was five years old when her mother took her sister and her to live with a cousin in the country because war was coming to their city. While their parents were away at church, the country home was attacked. Martha's relative took her, her sister, and her own five children on a very long journey to find shelter at a refugee camp called Pinyudu. Along the way, they hid from soldiers and fought illness, dehydration, and starvation. Once they reached the camp, they joined many others.
In a slight way with Jack as he makes sure she doesn’t have to go to juvie, but it’s truly shown on pages 258-259 when Vivian pays it forward to Molly and saves her. In this portion of the book Molly has been kicked out of the foster home she was in for the duration of the book. She doesn’t really have anywhere to go and if she went back into the system she would have to move and leave her life behind. Her boyfriend, her last year of high school in a familiar place, and many other things forcing her to start over, a difficult thing to do, especially at her age. Thankfully though Vivian comes through and gives Molly a room in her house.
Stories Theresa L. Flores in the book The Slave Across the Street, shares her story about her being a victim of the involuntary servitude: prostitution. Flores would move from city to city consequently since her parents job required it. She couldn’t have a stable friendship since she would move many times, and in order to change that she decided to join the track team. She thought she would be able to make some new friends since she was now involved in school. She had to stay for practice afterschool, and that’s how her nightmare started.
It contained bracelets for her roommates, necklaces for her mom and Abby, and a necklace in the shape of a shield for herself. They decide they will go to Rome, and the Headmistress even helps them get there. Cameron, Beth and Mackey go with Agents Townsend and Abby watching over them. Shortly after arriving, Beth and Mackey reveal that Zach went missing for 2 weeks in the summer, and they all wonder if he found Cameron during that time. Then, Zach shows up in the middle of the night while Cameron sleepwalks, and she accuses him of finding her in the summer, which he denies, and admits when he couldn't find her, he went searching for his mother, and he went crazy when he wasn't able to find
Her brothers and her husband refused to go with her so she went on her own. Hiding by day and walking by night, she made her way to Pennsylvania, where she found work as a laundress, scrubwoman, and cook there and in the Cape May, New Jersey area. She was able to save money to go back where she led her sister and two children to freedom. She later returned to retrieve her husband, but he had remarried, and wanted nothing to do with her. Over the next decade, Tubman led up to 300 fugitive slaves along the Underground Railway