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Lily Searches for another source of love

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Lily Searches for another source of love

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Lily finds someone to replace her mother (Rosaleen) in order to fill the void left by her mothers death, and the hatred she receives from her father T. Ray

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Lily has become withdraw from her father 

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Lily has become withdraw from her father 

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"We had never spoken of this, and I felt a shiver pass over me". (p 17)

Lily and her father hadn't spoken about her mother and about the incident ever since she died. Whenever Lily tried to talk about her mother in front of her father he would get mad adn wouldn't wan to talk about her.

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"'I'm leaving now. You tell your daddy I'm going into town tomorrow instead of coming here.'You're going to town? Take me,' I said. 'Why do you wanna go?' 'Please, Rosaleen.' 'You're going to have to walk the whole way.' 'I don't care.'"(Kidd 26)

Here, Lily want's to go with Rosaleen to town to connect with her and she says that she doesn't care if she has to walk the entire way.

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#Lily is searching for love in any fashion or form.

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#Lily is searching for love in any fashion or form.

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"This will sound crazy, but up until then I thought T. Ray loved me some."

Here, Lily admits that she still looked for love in T. Ray. She was so desperate for love she looked for it in the man who abused her for most of her life. She found love though in Rosaleen who acted like a mother to her. This was not acceptable where she lived but she still found more love in Rosaleen

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#Lily is trying to find another source of love

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#Lily is trying to find another source of love

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"Mother, forgive me. Please forgive, and she would kiss my skin till it grew chapped and tell me I was not to blame" (Kidd 3).

Here Lily imagines what her mother would be like, and imagines an idealistic version of her mother. Because Lily does not know what her mother is like she envisions what she is like to make herself feel love and affection.

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Lily is feeling unloved because of how her father treats her and won't pay attention to her. Her mother died and she does not have a parent that loves her as much as her mother did.

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Lily is looking for another source of love.

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Lily is looking for another source of love.

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Here, Lily is searching for another source of love because T. Ray does not show any affection towards her. Lily is searching for another mother because she grew up without her mom. Lily is looking for that love from Rosaleen who colored, but even though Rosaleen is colored Lily does not care she just wants to be loved by someone. " I used to have dreams in which she [Rosaleen] was white and married T. Ray and became my real mom." This show that Lily looks at Rosaleen as more than person that's works around the house.

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"Your going to town? Take me, I said." ...  "Please Rosaleen"

Here, Lily is desperate for attention and love. Her father neglects her so much, that its almost like she is not even there in his eyes. Because of this, Lily looks to Rosaleen as her sou

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#Isolation and limits interaction with others

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#Isolation and limits interaction with others

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Lily shows a limitation of interaction with her father and Rosaleen. She portrays this trait when she states "It was my plot of Earth, my cubbyhole" (Kidd 14)

This refers to a spot hidden in "...the long tunnel of trees no one knew about..." (Kidd 14) The spot she is describing is where she usually goes to be away from T. Ray or Rosaleen. She uses her "Cubbyhole" as a safe getaway where she can

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"I lay there thinking about this one, wondering if the bees had come with my death in mind. Honestly I wasn't that disturbed by the idea"(kidd 3)

Here, lily shows a start of some type of depression and some sort of a suicidal thought.  When Lily is thinking about the bees and how she thinks they are her fate to death, she did not bothered by thinking about death.  At that moment in time she really was not bothered about her self dyning

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"...dig up the tin box that held my mother's things. I wanted to lie down in the orchard and let it hold me." (Kidd 22)
She uses the items from her mother to try and conjure the love and the memory of her mother. When she looks and holds these items it comforts her.

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Lily looks for another source of love in her mothers items. In the novel it states, "...but I could see he'd already given his answer...I could slip out to the orchard and dig up the tin box that held my mother's things" (Kidd 22). When Lily is neglected by her father she turns to her mother's items that she has to try to connect to the love she could have had if her mother was around.

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Lily Looks for another Source of Love   

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Lily Looks for another Source of Love   

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Lily is feeling unloved because of how her father won't pay attention to her and also she doesn't have a motherly figure because her mother died. Since she doesn't have a mother, Rosaleen is the womanly figure in Lilys house. For example,  it says "He started to swoop at the biddy with his tractor grease hands, but Rosaleen planted herself in front of him" (Kidd 22) This explains that Rosaleen is not

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Lily searches for another source of love. Vince Tarara

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Lily searches for another source of love. Vince Tarara

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"There is a special place out there in the long tunnel of trees nobody knew about not even Rosaleen. I started going there before I could tie my shoelaces. At first, it was a hiding spot from T. Ray's meanness.After T. Ray goes to bed , just to lie under the trees and be peaceful. It was my little cubbyhole." (Kidd 14)

Here, Lily is describing how she has no love and comforts herself by being independent. She comforts herself by sitting under her tree which is like a new roof to live under for Lilly.

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"I used to have day dreams in which she [Rosaleen] was white and married T. Ray and became my real mother" (Kidd 12)

Here, Lily is so desperate for a mother that she imagines Rosaleen, who acts as a motherly figure, as her actual mother. Lily is still hopeful that she can find maternal love somewhere since she is not lashing out in anger or aggression.