Biography ( The secret life of Bees)

Sue Monk Kidd is a great writer.She was born in Sylvester,Georgia.She went to Texas University and graduated with a B.S degree. She work as a Registered Nurse through her twenties.And during that time she married a man named Sanford Kidd and had two kids by him.
In the secret life of bees Lily the main person is living with a mean dad (Tray)and a stand in mother (Rosaleen).Lily decide for them to both run away when they both have one of the worst days of their lives.When they do, they meet some strong black women who take them in and give them a place to stay. "Well you can stay here till you figured out what you going to do."said August.

This was her 1st book and although Lily and her are more different then alike the book was very influenced by the place she grew up.The setting of the book is like the setting of the home she grew up in.For intense Honey bees really did live inside her wall.She really did grow up in a big country house ( Just like the one in the book).She had a nanny that she grew up with and like nanny in the story they both carried a snuff cup.and said some of the same thing like when Rosaleen said if you put her husband brain in a birds the Bird will fly backwards, that one something Sue said her nanny use to say about her husband.

In her real life her teacher really did influence her to write that's also what happened in the book when her teacher said that She was going to be insulting her intelligence if she wanted to go to Beauty school. She said that Lily was smart and that she could be a professor or writer.''you could be a professor or a writer with actual books to yuor credit.16"Listing to her dads stories when she was young also influenced her to write.Sue also grew up around alot of strong black women and that's who Lily in up staying with when they run a way.

Even though alot of her books have to do with the challenges and victories of women.Most of the cruel punishments she faced in the book was all made up and T-ray and her real dad was totally opposite.

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This book is soooo good I am so glad that she found herself true happiness and mothers at the end.The day she and Rosaleen left T Ray and went to Tiburon SC, is the best decision she could have ever made. The found a nice loving place to stay a develop great relationships with great women.She met women who was name after calenders.One in particular who taugth lily alot was August.
August took in both Rosaleen and lily in ,gave them work to do for there business. Lily kept the honey.Lily learned about her mother because all the clues that her mother left behind lead her to the place she went.She look after her mother when she had left TRay.Lily found out that the day her mother died was the day she was coming back to their house.
TRay finally found Lily and she saw a side of him that she have never seen before.He had been looking for her half the summer.He freaked out about her a for a minute, he took out all the pain he had inside for her mother on her.She realized the reason why he wasn't that nice of a father was because he was miserably about losing Debora ,Lily's mom.But in the end he let Lily stay where she at cause its the best thing for her to do.

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