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The Secret Life Of Bees Conflict Analysis

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In The Secret Life of Bees, the author uses conflict to teach us if something is worth fighting for then you should never give up, which is this story’s theme. For instance, “Your mother ran off and left you. The day she died, she’d come back to get her things, that’s all.” That quote is an example of Lily’s father trying to tell her that her mother did not love her, and that the day she died she was coming back to get her things, not Lily. Lily knew her mother would not do that to her, so she traveled across the state South Carolina, to find answers about her mother in North Carolina. Another example of how the author is trying to teach this same theme is “Your mother left you, Lily. Let it alone.” This example shows another way someone in

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