Essays on The Secret Life of Bees

Coming of age is the transition from childhood to adulthood, often children undergoing changes, with time, become more mature. In The Secret Life of Bees, Lily is a teenage girl living in a small town in South Carolina. Lily’s mother passed away when she was young and Lily struggles to cope with her mother’s death...

Religion- The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. Lily is a teenage girl whose mother died when she was young and uses religious symbols to find connect with her mother. She grows up with her unloving father. Lily is closer with Rosaleen her nanny who is...

Sue Monk Kidd wrote this particular novel based on a little of her creativity and adolescence years. Where she grew up, in the south, in effect Sue actually had no less than 50,000 honey bees living in the wall of her childhood home. Sue lived in her Sylvester home for no less than 18 years....