How Does Sylvia Plath Use Literary Techniques In The Arrival Of The Bee Box

Sue Monk Kidd’s novel The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of a 14-year-old white girl, Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of her mother's death. Lily meets new people and they help her realize who she is and how the world is around her. Throughout the novel Kidd uses Lily’s various situations to express the theme. Kidd uses imagery, symbolism and similes to express the overall theme which is forgiveness and love.

In chapter one of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees the epigraph is a metaphor for the chapter. The queen is represented by Lily's mother, Deborah. It was shown by the actions of T-ray and Lily after her departure that she was the unifying force of their family; without her they could no longer function. Without her they were no longer a family. With everything lily did, she was constantly reminded of her mother's death. As lily explained, "The oddest things caused me to miss her," and T-ray turned into a miserable excuse of a father. When Deborah died, the result was unmistakable queenlessness. Starting with T-Rays parenting, though it was never adequate, after the family tragedy he became bitter and cruel. He expresses this in

In the passage from the award winning novel Secret Life of Bees, portrays Lily sneaking out of the house to be closer to her dead mother, which paints a picture of how much Lily wants to develop the bond with her late mother. To accomplish this task the author, Sue Monk Kidd, integrates numerous forms of figurative language such as symbolism , imagery, and comparisons using similes and metaphors to convey how much Lily desires to find a connection with her dead mother.

In The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, a young girl named Lily struggles with growing up with only a harsh father and a housemaid while trying to find her own place in the world. At the age of four, Lily accidentally shoots her mother while trying to help her in a fight against Lily’s dad. Ever since that day, Lily has a difficult time trying to be a lady and trying to cope with her somewhat abusive father. One day, when Lily is fourteen, the housemaid Rosaleen is sent to jail for pouring dip spit on white men’s shoes but later gets assaulted by the men and is taken to the hospital where Lily goes to sneak her out. In order to help incorporate the story’s title into the story, the author has written epigraphs, that are about bees, for every chapter in the book. Chapter two’s epigraph says “ On leaving the old nest, the swarm normally flies only a few metres and settles. Scout bees look for a suitable place to start the new colony. Eventually, one location wins favor and the whole swarm takes to the air”(34). This epigraph parallels the story because of the similarities in how bees move on and look for somewhere to start their new lives and how Lily and Rosaleen try to start their new

“But I had such a moment in my own ordinary room. I heard a voice say Lily Melissa Owens your jar is open” (Kidd 41). The bees acted almost as a guide to Lily, when the bees left Lily knew that it was her time to go as well. The bees, messengers from God were signaling Lily that she needed to remove herself from her current situation. “I knew exactly what I had to do -- leave. I had to get away from T. Ray” (Kidd 41). The bees were the reason that this realization occurred to Lily. The bees were telling Lily that God wanted her to leave, it was God’s plan for Lily to live with the calendar sisters so she could learn about her mother. Which is what she needed the most. The bees put Lily on the right track by leading her to her

As Lily adjusted to her life with the Boatwright sister’s, and her job as a beekeeper she developed faith in the power of the beehives. The predictability and the complexity of their lifecycle gave her comfort as well as a renewal of her faith in life. The bees taught her a lot, and as a result she gave them her respect. At the end of the book Lily had to use her faith to believe in herself.

On the first night back in her hometown Olivia has a difficult run in with her bees, “When Bees swarm in the spring, you can often recapture them, and set them up in a new box. This is not a swarm. These bees are angry and these bees are desperate” (Boylan and Picoult). The authors explain the bees like this to portray the battle Oliva went through leaving her ex husband and the complexity of the care of the bees develops the theme of the complexities of abusive relationships. When she says bees swarm in the spring they can typically be put in a new box, she's referring to the arguments with her ex husband where he would simply distract her and charm her into staying, but then Oliva describes the bees as angry and desperate; she's describing her breaking point, she couldn’t allow her son to witness the abuse and wouldn't be able to be convinced to stay.

“To know that a hive without a queen bee was a death sentence for the bees. They would stop work and go around completely demoralized”(kidd 286). In the quote stated above Sue Monk Kidd states that bees are solemnly attached to their queen. If she dies they feel a lack of guidance. Similarly in her book The Secret Life of Bee, Lily Owens has to live her life without a mother figure that can guide her through life. Because of an abusive father lily had no other option than leave the house and find a place where someone cared about her.in the novel secret life of bees author sue monk kidd uses the bee hive without a queen bee to portray how an individual's life is without the presence of a mother figure to provide guidance, love, and acceptance.

A threatened bee will sting its aggressor, and it will subsequently die. The insect will remain peaceful and tame until it realizes it is in danger, then it will give its life to defend its home. In The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, a 14-year-old named Lily learns about how her mother died. She ran away from home and with that, a whole wave of confusion and anger stemmed from learning the truth and facing her fears. From all this, we can learn how we should strive for acceptance.

Sometimes having control can go another way which could be happiness. The play A midsummer night’s dream is a example of this like how Hippolyta and Theseus both take control in confessing their love to each other and that leads to them getting married. “‘Now, fair Hippolyta, Our nuptial hour draws on apace. Four happy days bring in another moon’”. (I.i.1-3) You can tell by reading this quote that there is happiness in their voice and happiness by tracking the days till their wedding. This is how gaining control can lead to happiness by two people’s love for eachother like Theseus and Hippolyta. Also in the movie She’s the man at the end Viola tells the truth and they all forgive each other which makes everybody happy.

In a similar sense, both Little Bee and the narrator are placed in situations that helps compensate for their traumatic experiences. In Little Bee, Little Bee is in a position where she is desperately in need of help. Wherever she goes, suicidal thoughts follow “quote”. That when she is taken in by Sarah, another protagonist, and her son Charlie. Sarah provides

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This paragraph also hints at the return of Little Bee’s Africanness in its wording. The implication is that shade, a relatively simple word with her advanced level of English, is again foreign to her. Then she says, regarding Sarah, “I searched for the name of her expression in your language…frightened,” again struggling for easy language. Given that in the previous paragraph she has discussed transformation at length, it is as if the reader is seeing Little Bee regress to the self she was before England and Sarah’s influence.

Some people may say that having control over someone or something can bring satisfaction and a sense of power. In the an article called “Gunman Kills Himself After Hostage Drama (584)” written by Charles P. Wallace and Tim Waters loss of control and the feeling of being helplessness makes Robert B. Rose commit a last act of asserting control over himself. In another article written by Martin E.P. Seligman called “On Learned Helplessness (585)” the feeling of loosing control of oneself is something that can cause someone to do things that they thought they would never do. What is hard to understand is that some of the things the someone may commit may implicate the lives of others in a negative way and the ending result could be death.

A good control system provides timely information to the manager which is very much useful for taking various decisions. Control simplifies supervision by pointing out the significant deviations from the standards of performance. It keeps the subordinates under check and brings discipline among them.