The book was good.The end had a happy ending. but some chapters in the book got a little boring. Its like she would just hit a spot that she died down in keeping me awake. i like the romance between Zach and lily in the book. In the book it had some good points that people can use in life. It has like real like issues and it talks about how to deal with them, so it could help people in the world with the same problems.And in the book when it talks about how Lily's dad had just thought all the years after Lily's mom died that Lily was her mom. He was taking it out on Lily since he could not take it out on Lily. And so in life that happens a lot of people that they get blamed for something that they didn't even do.
The book " The Secret Life of Bees" is mostly about racial and acceptance issues. The racial issues affect lily the most with her most loved acquaintance,zach "one third brother, one third friend, one third boyfriend, and one third something else." ............
A Secret Life of Bees, A story about Lily Owens who has ran away from home finding refuge with three colored women. Basically I ended up loosing interest after the whole incident about Zach and the bottle. Lily finally found out that her mother actually did leave her and that her mother had also sought refuge with August just like her primary gut feelings had told her. She goes into denial and mopes about for only a few pages of the book but that was enough to blow it for me. After getting to the part where Lily was grieving for her mother I was ready to throw the book into corner and never pick it up again. However, after persisting into the book for a the sake of a grade, It came to light that in the end every thing will be ok. Reminding me of the saying that in the end everything will be ok, and if it's not ok, it's not the end
The Secret Life of Bees was a really great book. It showed how life could be found and filled with love after years and years of being hated for killing her mother. She found that there is love in this world even if she has only seen bad, hard times. Lily also found that you have to find things within you and not look for a "sign". Lily is a real person that has real problems and in the end everything works out just fine for her. This book portrayed a lot of deep emotions that are not just love hate and being upset. Its so much deeper than that. its her love for Zach but not being able to be with him because of race. Its Zach hate towards the world for them being so narrow minded. its the Guilt over lily killing her mom its the true love of the sisters. This book is real
I enjoyed reading the book Secret Life of Bees it was enjoyable and made some very good points about life and searching for the meaning of life. In the book a hurting father abused his young daughter because she reminded him of his deceased wife. The wife, however did not die of natural causes, she died at the hand of Lily, her only child, when Lily picked up a gun and it accidentally went off; killing her mother. The father is deeply hurt by this and even more so because he had deeply loved and cared about his wife, who had left him not long before the accident. This open wound causes him to handle his hurt and pain in a negative way by treating his only daughter like she was not worth any more than the dirt on his shoes. In the end a lesson of forgiveness is taught and Lily forgives her father for the way he had treated her. Lily also had to find forgiveness within her for her mother, who had left her with the ruthless father. She blamed her mother for the way her life was. Lily had to dig deep inside her and forgive her. At one point in the book Lily says that sometimes at night she will have a dream about her mother and she will have to forgive her all over again. The lessons of forgiveness in this book are astounding as a young girl searches for the meaning of her life in the cruel world.
Okay here is my review: The secret life of "killer" bees seemed to me like a soap opera on overload. So she shoots her mother, has an abusive father, breaks her nanny out of jail, runs away, steals from a store, starts a forbidden love, and other things right in the middle of the civil rights movement. Tad much for me. I did like the fact that Lily ends up retracing her mother's steps and finds a safe haven, a place where she is cared for and accepted without delay.I also liked the fact that Lily finds out that the death of her mother not only left a hole in herself, but left T. Ray struggling and stumbling as well. He was a good guy turned bad by tragedy. However, the filling of the rest of the book with June's marriage, May's suicide, Zach's imprisonment, and other dramas seemed a little too thrown together. Right after Zack is imprisoned, May commits suicide. After May's suicide, June gets married, going from sad to sad, to happy, to depressed, etc. It's a roller coaster of emotions. Overall, i liked the plot with Lily's family and her escape to a personal heaven, but the drama was way too much.
Alright...so we're here to compliment and rip the book...well I'm here to do both. I feel like the book does a great job of telling a story about a lost girl who is trying to find out about her mother, and ends up finding three great ones in three African-American women. It also does a good job of showing how much pain and sorrow there is in missing someone that was so close to one but yet so far away in a sense that Lilly barely even knew her mother. However, the meaning gets lost in all of the drama, and by the time I was reminded heavily and repeatedly about her missing her mother and looking for a sign I started getting lost and yearning for a little more meaning. Another thing I would like to bring up is how Lilly reacted to the finding out all she wanted to know about her mother from August; I feel like she acted very ungrateful and she should have felt relief and felt like everything had been resolved. Instead, she cries and brings back all the drama in one full tsunami, and she reminded me why I lost interest in the first place.
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ReplyDeleteI did not like this book, I wasn't interested in it. I guess it could be enjoyable to someone with a personal experience.
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ReplyDeleteThe book was good.The end had a happy ending. but some chapters in the book got a little boring. Its like she would just hit a spot that she died down in keeping me awake. i like the romance between Zach and lily in the book. In the book it had some good points that people can use in life. It has like real like issues and it talks about how to deal with them, so it could help people in the world with the same problems.And in the book when it talks about how Lily's dad had just thought all the years after Lily's mom died that Lily was her mom. He was taking it out on Lily since he could not take it out on Lily. And so in life that happens a lot of people that they get blamed for something that they didn't even do.
ReplyDeleteThe book " The Secret Life of Bees" is mostly about racial and acceptance issues. The racial issues affect lily the most with her most loved acquaintance,zach "one third brother, one third friend, one third boyfriend, and one third something else." ............
ReplyDeleteA Secret Life of Bees, A story about Lily Owens who has ran away from home finding refuge with three colored women. Basically I ended up loosing interest after the whole incident about Zach and the bottle. Lily finally found out that her mother actually did leave her and that her mother had also sought refuge with August just like her primary gut feelings had told her. She goes into denial and mopes about for only a few pages of the book but that was enough to blow it for me. After getting to the part where Lily was grieving for her mother I was ready to throw the book into corner and never pick it up again. However, after persisting into the book for a the sake of a grade, It came to light that in the end every thing will be ok. Reminding me of the saying that in the end everything will be ok, and if it's not ok, it's not the end
ReplyDeleteThe Secret Life of Bees was a really great book. It showed how life could be found and filled with love after years and years of being hated for killing her mother. She found that there is love in this world even if she has only seen bad, hard times. Lily also found that you have to find things within you and not look for a "sign". Lily is a real person that has real problems and in the end everything works out just fine for her. This book portrayed a lot of deep emotions that are not just love hate and being upset. Its so much deeper than that. its her love for Zach but not being able to be with him because of race. Its Zach hate towards the world for them being so narrow minded. its the Guilt over lily killing her mom its the true love of the sisters. This book is real
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading the book Secret Life of Bees it was enjoyable and made some very good points about life and searching for the meaning of life. In the book a hurting father abused his young daughter because she reminded him of his deceased wife. The wife, however did not die of natural causes, she died at the hand of Lily, her only child, when Lily picked up a gun and it accidentally went off; killing her mother. The father is deeply hurt by this and even more so because he had deeply loved and cared about his wife, who had left him not long before the accident. This open wound causes him to handle his hurt and pain in a negative way by treating his only daughter like she was not worth any more than the dirt on his shoes. In the end a lesson of forgiveness is taught and Lily forgives her father for the way he had treated her. Lily also had to find forgiveness within her for her mother, who had left her with the ruthless father. She blamed her mother for the way her life was. Lily had to dig deep inside her and forgive her. At one point in the book Lily says that sometimes at night she will have a dream about her mother and she will have to forgive her all over again. The lessons of forgiveness in this book are astounding as a young girl searches for the meaning of her life in the cruel world.
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ReplyDeleteThe secret life of "killer" bees seemed to me like a soap opera on overload. So she shoots her mother, has an abusive father, breaks her nanny out of jail, runs away, steals from a store, starts a forbidden love, and other things right in the middle of the civil rights movement. Tad much for me. I did like the fact that Lily ends up retracing her mother's steps and finds a safe haven, a place where she is cared for and accepted without delay.I also liked the fact that Lily finds out that the death of her mother not only left a hole in herself, but left T. Ray struggling and stumbling as well. He was a good guy turned bad by tragedy. However, the filling of the rest of the book with June's marriage, May's suicide, Zach's imprisonment, and other dramas seemed a little too thrown together. Right after Zack is imprisoned, May commits suicide. After May's suicide, June gets married, going from sad to sad, to happy, to depressed, etc. It's a roller coaster of emotions. Overall, i liked the plot with Lily's family and her escape to a personal heaven, but the drama was way too much.
Alright...so we're here to compliment and rip the book...well I'm here to do both. I feel like the book does a great job of telling a story about a lost girl who is trying to find out about her mother, and ends up finding three great ones in three African-American women. It also does a good job of showing how much pain and sorrow there is in missing someone that was so close to one but yet so far away in a sense that Lilly barely even knew her mother. However, the meaning gets lost in all of the drama, and by the time I was reminded heavily and repeatedly about her missing her mother and looking for a sign I started getting lost and yearning for a little more meaning. Another thing I would like to bring up is how Lilly reacted to the finding out all she wanted to know about her mother from August; I feel like she acted very ungrateful and she should have felt relief and felt like everything had been resolved. Instead, she cries and brings back all the drama in one full tsunami, and she reminded me why I lost interest in the first place.
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