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What is the main idea of Secret Life of Bees?
The main idea is the strength of women, the weakness, and the ability in all of us to grow and change. The themes of the novel are about racism, the strength of a community of women, nature, and the importance we place on rituals.
What inspired Kidd to write The Secret Life of Bees?
The Secret Life of Bees draws on both Kidd’s personal experience as a child growing up in the segregated South and on American history. Kidd has cited the storytelling influences of her father and of the African American maids who worked in her childhood home as forces that helped shape the novel.
Who is the intended audience for The Secret Life of Bees?
The intended audience is for women around the age 14 to 25. Because some girls lose their mothers then they have to go through abuse.
What is Lily’s goal in The Secret Life of Bees?
Lily has a deep human need to be loved, so much so, in fact, that she risks her life and freedom by breaking Rosaleen out of jail. Similarly, she goes off to Tiburon, South Carolina, on the slim chance that there she will find a link to her dead mother.
What does the black Mary represent in The Secret Life of Bees?
The black Mary serves several functions in the novel. As the picture, it symbolizes mothers and mother surrogates. This picture literally symbolizes Deborah to Lily, and eventually the picture leads Lily to August, a black woman who will become a surrogate mother.
What point of view is The Secret Life of Bees in?
the first-person
point of viewLily narrates the novel in the first-person, describing the events she experiences from her unique perspective and retelling the stories others tell her in the same manner.
What is one of the author’s purposes in contrasting Walter Mitty’s daydreams and his real life?
Q. What is the difference between how others treat Walter Mitty in real life and how they treat him in his daydreams? In real life, others treat him with more respect than they do in his daydreams. In his daydreams, others see him as more dangerous than he is.