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The Secret Life Of Bees Chapter Analysis

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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is a novel about a girl named Lily who runs away with her stand-in mother Rosaleen, to Tiburon, South Carolina. There they meet three sisters named August, June, and May. August teaches Lily many things. One being the power of female community, which Lily didn’t have growing up. When Lily was little, she shot her mother by accident. She narrates that since she didn’t have a mother growing up, she missed out on all the female aspects of life that she should have learned. For example, on page three of chapter one, it says, “You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair. My hair was constantly going off in eleven wrong directions.” Lily is also embarrassed by the way she looks because

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