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Racism is unjust and people are people no matter the color of their skin. 

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Racism is unjust and people are people no matter the color of their skin. 

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No matter the challenges you face there are people who still care for and love you. 

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No matter the challenges you face there are people who still care for and love you. 

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Stand up for what is right even if people don't accept it. 

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Stand up for what is right even if people don't accept it. 

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This picture repents this theme because even if your mother is not their. Their adoptive mothers, Godmothers and people that girls look up to as mothers so no matter who you are they are always people who love you.

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This picture represents the theme because it shows how white people have treated African Americans as slaves under there control, and that African Americans are not people there monkeys.

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This picture represents the theme because it shows a kid being a hero and that is kinda what Lily is in the story, a hero for standing up for what's right

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How are kids affected by the lost of a parent when they are younger and how dose it affect them mentally?

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How are kids affected by the lost of a parent when they are younger and how dose it affect them mentally?

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How do abusive parent relationships affect kids who grow up in this situation?

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How do abusive parent relationships affect kids who grow up in this situation?

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How dose prejudiced against another person by a group affect how people view the group socially? 

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How dose prejudiced against another person by a group affect how people view the group socially? 

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How did segregation and racism in the south in the 60's affect people?

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How did segregation and racism in the south in the 60's affect people?

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How did political views of governors in the south affect how people view African Americans. 

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How did political views of governors in the south affect how people view African Americans. 

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How did political views of governors in the south affect how people view African Americans?

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How did political views of governors in the south affect how people view African Americans?

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How are people affected when people don't stand up for what is right and the wrong just keeps happening?

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How are people affected when people don't stand up for what is right and the wrong just keeps happening?

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Why is it important to stand up for things that you know are right even though other people aren't standing up?

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Why is it important to stand up for things that you know are right even though other people aren't standing up?

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The book The Secret Life of Bees starts out right away talking about bees, the bees are a recurring thing all throughout the story. The story takes place in Sylvan, South Carolina.The main character is Lily Owens the daughter of T. Ray. The book begins out describing Lily’s life on the peach farm. The author, Sue Monk Kidd, also gives us a veage background story of her mother's death when Lily was four. Since then T. Ray, Lily’s father, had a picker from the peach farm take care of Lily. Lily’s caregiver is named Rosaleen, a colored woman, the author describes some of the things Rosaleen and Lily do. The story then shifts to Lyndon Johnson, the president, signing the Civil Rights Act and Rosaleen decides she wants to register to vote. Lily, wanting to get out of the house, asks to go with Rosaleen to register and that's when things went downhill. Rosaleen and Lily get arrested. T. Ray bails Lily out but leaves Rosaleen, this makes Lily extremely upset. The author then touches on the subject of a abusive relationship between Lily and T. Ray and shows some of the awful things T. Ray does he then tells Lily that her mother on they day she died that she left them and was just coming back for somethings and that struck Lily hard. Lily then feels the bees speak to her to leave and she finds herself running away from home and sneaks Rosaleen out of jail and they run off. She decides to go to a place called Tiburon, South Carolina, Lily had found a block of wood with a black Mary picture on it and it said Tiburon so she felt her mother had been there and she sought out to find this place. They find their way to Tiburon and Lily goes into a store and finds where the picture is from. She then meets August Boatright and her sisters (all black) and they have a honey business. Their sister May seems emotional. June is suspicious of Lily. They also meet Neil, June's boyfriend, who wants to marry June but she keeps saying no. The other sister, May, is over sensitive, and when she gets upset she writes it down on a paper and sticks it the rocks at her "wailing wall," a wall of stones back in the woods. This seems to have came from their sister Aprils death. Some time goes on and Lily helps August with the beekeeping, and Rosaleen keeps an eye on May in the house and helps cook and clean. Lily is given a room in the "honey house," where she sleeps. She really likes August but is afraid to tell her the truth about her previous life, she fears that August will reject her and she knows June and August already know she's lying. She meets Zack, a black boy that helps August, and develops a crush on Zach. Lily and Rosaleen become comfortable with the sisters. A group of women called the Daughters of Mary also come to the house, because they all practice their form of a religion.The group displays a wooden ship's statue of a black Mary. The Daughters pray to her, believing she can give them power and lead them to unchain themselves from various social barriers. Lily and Rosaleen join them, and soon Lily realizes the women do not see her as one of them. The society of women helps August, June, and May encourage Lily to believe in herself and feel loved. But still she cannot tell August the story of her family or earlier life. Lily talks and gets close to Zack and talk about Lily wanting to become a writer and Zach's of becoming a lawyer. The author touches on the topic of racism and Zack trying to become a lawyer and how hard he’ll have to work harder because he's black. Zach gives Lily a journal to record her stories. They go to town and take honey to the law office of a white lawyer who is helping Zach. While Lily is alone in the office, she suddenly calls her father, she wants to know if he even knows her favorite color. T. Ray gets angry and threatens to find her and beat her.

One day, Lily walks into the kitchen and sees May doing something she remembers her mother, Deborah, doing. She confronts May and discovers she knew Lily's mom. Lily doesn't know how to react. She decides to face August about it, but before she can, Zach takes her into Tiburon again to buy parts for his car. The two park the truck at the same time that a group of African-American boys near the truck throw a bottle at a white man. Zach is arrested with the group, and a terrified Lily has to walk back to the Boatright’s house. They don't want May to know about Zach's arrest because she is so fragile so they exclude her. But Zach’s mom calls the house and May answers the phone, finding out about what happened and she is shocked. Leaving the house by herself, still in shock not crying but something was wrong. She then commits suicide by drowning in the river by her wailing wall. Everyone is sad.T. Ray shows up at the Boatright house, having traced Lily's call from the lawyer's office. He and Lily have a terrible argument, and T. Ray hits and kicks her. But Lily is able to call him "Daddy" and get him to realize she is not her mother. His pride was wounded when Deborah left, and he has taken his anger out on Lily ever since. August convinces him to let Lily stay with her and, as he leaves, Lily goes to school with Zach at the white high school and learns to love herself living with this community of strong, independent women. Through these experiences, Lily has learned to trust her own instincts and matures and believes in herself.