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I agree with Abigail that this book embodies the romantic aspirations, not just of Lily, but every character in the book.  Rather than the matieralistic dreams shown in The Great Gatsby, characters of The Secret Life of Bees strive for love and adoration.  Lily longs to be accepted by a pseudo family of any sort [...]

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Women in literature are often depicted as romantics and always seem to be searching for love and commonly in novels, they find that one love.  In The Secret Life of Bees, Lily spends her entire life unloved by her father and everyone else.  Until she meets Zach and the Calendar sisters, Lily searches for those [...]

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As I read further into the book, I find that the struggle is symbolic of our society struggle. Sadly in our world there are still people who find woman to be the “lesser” role on Earth. In, The Secret Life of Bees, it seems as if this struggle is not only shown, but solved. As [...]

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I think there are two, polar opposite portrayals of women in The Secret Life of Bees. On one hand, Lily is suppressed by her father and displays the inferiority of women in the twentieth century. The way she is treated and talked down to are not only similiar to the way young girls [...]

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I believe that the way in which women are depicted in The Secret Life of Bees is that women are caretakers. Children and others go to mothers or women friends in search of strength. Women are dependable and nurturing. Because of the death of May “the Daughters of Mary” band together to support June and [...]

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In the Secret Life Of Bee, Women are depicted as the lesser sex of the two. In the opening chapters, Lily and Rosealeen are shown in society as not equal. In Chapter one, Lily witnessed Roesaleen get yelled at and thrown in jail. Along with this incident, she talks about how her father does not [...]

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In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees, the protagonist Lily is depicted as inferior in the eyes of her father. Lily’s father feels ashamed of Lily wanting to be educated and punishes her when she tries to read a book during a slow day of selling peaches. Lily’s father treats her like [...]

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Through reading The Secret Life of Bees I have become increasingly aware that the novel is written by a women, Sue Monk Kidd. Although she does discuss the stereotype of women being emotion through the character of May, she does depict women in a favorable manor. Mrs. Kidd expresses that it would be a waste [...]

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 In The Secret Life of Bees, women are not presented in the media at all.  However, the rest of the plot revolves around the role of women in the home and in society.  Lily herself is portrayed as a helpless, unloved teen who is struggling to find her identity among those who do not support [...]

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