Essays Tagged: "Secret Life of Bees"

"The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

In The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd makes this evident through her protagonist, Lily Owens. Lily grow ...

(5 pages) 108 2 4.7 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

"Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd is set in 1964 in a town called Tiburon, South Carolina. The n ... "Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about." August explains this quote in chapter 8, the nature of sp ... with black women, a runaway, and a criminal in a weird way means her life with August must remain a secret--just like the secret life of the bees that goes on inside the hive. In this way, the motherh ...

(5 pages) 16 0 0.0 Feb/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

women in the bigoted south - and this is exactly what Sue Monk Kidd does in her debut novel. In The Secret Life of Bees, a female coming-of-age story set in the Post-Civil Rights Act South, Kidd demon ...

(3 pages) 15 0 0.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

A Metaphysical Comparison between "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce

that one has topics and inspiration for creating later in life. Lily Owens, the protagonist of The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, and Stephen Dedalus, the protagonist of A Portrait of the Arti ... great.As a young artist myself, both of these novels were influential to me in their own ways. The Secret Life of Bees is a highly engaging novel, despite its lack of character development, and I con ...

(6 pages) 24 1 3.9 Nov/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Lily's fulfillment of the "Heroic Journey" in Secret life of the Bees

e specific example where it is carefully and intricately exhibited is in Sue Monk Kidd's novel, The Secret Life of Bees, in which a young woman's search for acceptance and the truth becomes a heart-wa ... a.Exemplified in this chronicle quest the "Hero's Journey" is evident in Sue Monk Kidd's novel, The Secret Life of Bees. Lily, the adolescent protagonist of this novel, travels in search of self-fulfi ...

(15 pages) 15 0 0.0 Dec/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

The Secret Life of Bees

Jay Riches11 EnglishWord Count: 822The Secret Life of Bees EssaySue Monk Kidd uses many techniques to shape character and explore themes in ... "Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about." (pg. 148) This shows not only how knowledgeable August is ...

(3 pages) 1 0 0.0 Sep/2014

Subjects: Literature Research Papers