The Secret Life Of Bees Lily Owens Character Traits

Having a abusive father is hard to imagine for many people but main character Lily Owens is forced to live with one that she can not stand enough to even call him dad and even worse than that Lily's “father” tells her that her mother passed away when she was shot by Lily when she was 4 years old. But throughout the novel “The Secret Life of Bees, author Sue Monk Kidd describes how main character Lily Owens faces new and frightening situations but she is able to thrive under these circumstances and find a better life for her and Rosaleen. The story begins with a 14 year old girl named Lily Owens lying on her bed waiting for the bees to emerge from her cracked walls as they do most nights. She lives with her abusive father that she calls T-Ray and her black housekeeper Rosaleen on a peach farm in South Carolina. Her mother is her earliest memory and she thinks she was a big impact on her death. T-Ray Lily's dad tells her that Lily

Rosaleen works as a maid and a friend to May, and Lily works at the bee farm with a young man named Zack (who she quickly develops a crush on). After a sudden suicide by May, August and Lily become very close and after quite some time the secret wonder of her mother bubbles up and she can not hold the secret no longer and she must ask. But the answer she get is not what she was hoping for. After all the hope that her mother was alive was lost. All though the one fact she was holding onto her whole life was lost she discovered a new family with August and June making a better life than she could have ever expected making her journey complete and fulfilled.

The main character in the book Lily Owens, proves to be a very strong individual facing many different obstacles within her 14 years of life with her abusive father, her mother's death and growing up around