Compare And Contrast The Secret Life Of Bees

T.Ray was always mean to Lily and the only person Lily could run and cry to was Rosaleen her nanny, All Lily wanted was for her father to love her and act like a father to her. Lily didn’t ask for all of his abuse and punishments. The reason T.Ray was always mean and punishing her because she accidently killed her own mother and T.Ray was madly in love with Deborah and married her before Deborah found out she was having a baby. He became really bitter because he lost his wife.

Lily, not being able to comprehend the possibility that her father is telling the Truth, then decides to run away. This practically tells us that, out of T-Ray’s words and the possibility of them being true (at the time), Lily acted off of her father’s words and just decided to run away, making T-Ray the main reason for her to run away. The next piece of evidence is the quote, “Children raised in nurturing environments might be more secure, confident, and capable of dealing with later challenges, while those raised in less enriched settings might feel anxious and unable to cope with life's difficulties” (Cherry 2). What the quote dumbs down to is telling the difference between children raised in caring environments & others raised in more unfortunate conditions. As already known, T-Ray isn’t exactly the most caring father figure, quite the opposite of the appropriate, non–abusive father Lily wished she had, so she is more anxious and unable to deal with life’s

In the novel The Secret Life of Bees (2001), Sue Kidd creates a character, Terrence Ray Owens, that serves as the epitome of internal conflict. Kidd is able to show Terrence’s internal conflict through through a flashback from Lily’s friend August, and a series of violent actions inflicted on his daughter Lily. Kidd’s purpose in this novel is to display the ramifications of a broken home dynamic, in order to show how forgiveness to oneself and others is truly the first step to finding happiness.

T.Ray is shown for once caring about somebody other than his dog and this is also a realization to the main character. Kidd chooses very specific words in this passage such as awe and quivered to describe his body language very specifically creating a vivid image of what he looks like after this thought and shows that he has changed from his malevolent temper to a melancholy state where he reflects on everything he knows. Kidd explicitly states this through Lily by saying, “He looked away, toward the window, like he was contemplating the road that led her here,” (Kidd 295) On it's surface this is referring to Lily and how she got to where he is, however, this also is referring to Deborah, T.Ray’s deceased wife, and how she got there when she ran away from them. T.Ray still feels a powerful burning pain in his heart from this abandonment.

It’s presumed that this is what T.Ray thinks when Lily says "After my morning. Of capturing bees, I spent the afternoon in the peach stand out on the highway, selling T.Ray's peaches" (Kidd 15). At this point in the novel, T.Ray made Lily work on the highway to sell his peaches for him. He thought that Lily was to do anything he wanted her to do. Yes, Lily is his daughter, but the year this book was based on was 1964, after the child labor law has been passed. Lily should not have had to work for T.Ray because he forced her to. After Lily ran away from T.Ray, she called him to apologize. T.Ray started to yell at her for that. It is evident that he was angry at her for leaving him alone when he said "'I'll tell you what you were. You were a goddamn fool who went looking for trouble and found it. Because of you I can't walk down the street in Sylvan without people staring at me. I've had to stop everything and search for you all over

Then it just went off.” (19). T. Ray approaches Lily and fills her in with false information, so she would not say anything horrible about her father to other people. He does this so he can protect his image and reputation, showing how self-centered he is. Lily recalls the terrible, painful memories of T. Ray, remembering him yelling the Lord’s name in vain multiple times and says, “‘...shouting Jesus H. Christ, Jesus H. Christ!

In Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, T. Ray is a frustrated and unloving character who makes an enormous impact on Lily’s character by making her feel self-conscious about herself and not worthy of being loved. T. Ray evokes hatred and disappointment in the reader by permitting this abusive and unfair treatment towards Lily. With his rough and furious exterior that is represented by grits on the hat, he is also proven to be filled with grief and hurt by his wife’s leaving and future death. To hide his heart-break and depression, he lashes out on Lily to build himself up.

The character who has changed the most in Sue Monk Kidd's novel, The Secret Life of Bees, is Lily Owens. When the novel begins, Lily is constantly pushed around by her father. She has no courage against her daddy, T. Ray, who abbuses and taunts her. His parenting ways, of overpowermeant, fear, and physical punishments are barbaric. Once, Lily was caught under an apple tree with her top unbottoned. She insists to T. Ray that nothing happpened. He calls her a slut and does not believe her T. Ray proceeds to give her a severe punishment. Monk states, "He poured a mound of grits the size of an anthill onto the pine floor. 'Get over here and kneel down,'...I swayed from knee to knee, hoping for a seond or two of relief, but the pain cut deep into my skin" (24).

Many people say that you need to read the book before you watch movie based on the book because the movie is always different. The movie for The Secret Life of Bees is no exception to that rule. The Secret Life of Bees is about a 14-year-old, white girl, named Lily Owens, living in 1964. While Lily was just 4 years old, her mother, Deborah, died, and her only memory of her mom is hazy and unsure. In her memory, Deborah was packing a bag to leave her abusive husband T. Ray and take Lily with her. Before they could leave though, T. Ray tried to force her to stay, and she grabbed a gun. T. Ray knocked it out of her hand, so Lily wanted to hand it back to her. Then she accidentally shot her mother, and she died. In the summer of ‘64, Lily ran

The devastating tragedy of losing a person's mother at an early age can drastically affect that person's life. It can impact the way someone thinks, corresponds with others, and the way someone handles themselves emotionally. In the novel The Secret Life of Bees Lily Owens loses her mother at the early age of four. During Lily's 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, Rosaleen, and the Calendar Sisters.

In the novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the main character, Lily Owens struggles with the notion that she killed her mother and has to live with her abusive, neglectful father, T-Ray. Throughout, Lily searches for information about her mother and why she left her. Unexpectedly, she stumbles upon new mother figures that play an important role in changing Lily to the person she is in later. The typical sequence of a hero’s journey includes a departure, initiation and trials, and reintegration into society. By the end, Lily Owens developes into a more mature, independent young women after experiencing a difficult childhood.

Lily shows her non-racist side in the very beginning of the book, after Rosaleen has been put in jail for spitting on a very racist white man’s shoe. She willingly sneaks into jail and attempts to free Rosaleen, but gets sent home with the racist and mean father, T. Ray. She once again tries to free Rosaleen, and this time sneaks into a hospital to free her. Lily is successful this time, and runs away with Rosaleen.

In view of that, relationships between characters in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ are clearly similar and different to ‘The Secret of Bees’. Lily explains her relationship by saying, “Rosaleen had worked for us since my mother died. My daddy– who I called T. Ray because ‘Daddy’ never fit him” (2). This quotation from ‘The Secret Life of Bees’ is by Lily, narrating her relationship with Rosaleen and T. Ray. Rosaleen treats Lily like her daughter as she compliments Lily and gives advice on her decision of fashion school. Comparatively, when Lily tells her father T. Ray about the swarm of bees in her room, T. Ray does not believe her daughter and instead threatens punishment. This quote states Rosaleen genuinely cares for Lily as she thinks for her best while T. Ray does not treat her own

Organization Safe Voices lists that, "More than 1 in 4 teenage girls in a relationship (26%) report enduring repeated verbal abuse." (Safe Voices). With it stating more than 1 automatically jumps to at least half, half of teenage girls have been revealed to verbal abuse in a relationship; no matter it being, platonic, familial or romantic. In The Secret Life of Bees verbal abuse is highly prevalent throughout the novel, the abuse is mainly taken in by protagonist Lily Owens. The main abuser is her father T. Ray, with a constant demeanor of Lily being a dumb blonde girl, he constantly calls her numerous obscene names such as "you act no better than a slut" and "why you little bitch" (pg. 27&39, Kidd). While no adolescent should have to endure that mental beat down, Lily later uses that to better herself and she learns herself value while overcoming the repeated verbal abuse from her

First of all, The Secret Life of Bees is a 1960’s novel based on a child named Lily, who was bossed around and treated unfairly by her dad T-Ray, which he himself had a black maid named Rosaleen working for him since before Lily was born. Lily and Rosaleen had a very special relationship that had loyalty, trust,