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The Secret Life Of Bees By Sue Monk Kidd

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The Color of Your Skin Means Nothing When a little girl runs away, wouldn’t you want to know what happens to her? Well in Sue Monk Kidd’s book, The Secret Life of Bees a little girl named Lily leaves home. While she is gone she learns a bunch of life lessons, one of them being about the color of your skin. In the book The Secret Life of Bees, Sue shows us that the color of your skin does not mean anything. Lily lives with her father T-Ray who isn’t the best father and his worker Rosaline. Lily and Rosaline go into town one day and end up getting arrested. T-Ray bails Lily out of jail but not Rosaline. Lily decides she is going to to break Rosaline out of jail and they are going to run away. They go to a town where Lily thinks her dead mother has been. They knock on a door and end up staying there with three women. T-Ray comes and finds them after about a month to take them back home but Lily and Rosaline end up staying with the women. …show more content…

In Sue Monk Kidd's book she shows this by saying “I nodded, wondering where was the limit of her knowing things.” This is showing that August is always thinking about things. Not even the white people Lily knew in Sylvan thought about things as wild and out of the box as August did. August is probably smarter than half of the white people because she isn't stuck up and she had to earn the privilege to go to school. Not being stuck up usually means they are a little more caring also. In the book A Secret Life of Bees she says “ August is in with Sugar-Girl in the parlor. She showed up crying.”(177) This goes to show that black people are caring and they will take time out of their everyday lives to help others. August was trying to help her friend not because it was her job but because she truly cared about

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