Final essay on The secret Life of Bees

4/7/08
In the Secret life of Bees the writer Sue Monk Kidd, is not only writing about one girl she is writing about every girl with hopes, dreams and want for a better life. I think that’s something every girl in America wants. Even if their rich and have every thing they could ever dream about, nothing is never enough. And the reason why I just target women with that is because men are really not as caring as women. It bothers a girl more to see someone get hurt more than it bothers a man. Women are more sensitive and because of that we want life to be beyond the earth. Women hate the wars, the homeless, and the sick. And they want to go to a better place than this. I am sure men hate this thing too but they deal with it better.
When Lily (the youngest women in the story that’s been tortured by her father.)
And Rosaleen (the stand in mother of Lily) decided to move on with there life. They need the most help of all; they got more help from the women. They caught a half way ride with a black men going there way. The strongest black women were the people that gave them a place to stay.

I know you probably wondering what do this got to do with this book because it say nothing like that in there. But when I first read this book and Lily and Rosaleen sprung free they started look for a better life. They got to Tiburon, South Carolina and they found one. That gives me hope that maybe everyone can find that life they looking for. Sue Monk Kidd probably didn’t mean to portray this message of hope for a better life. But this is they way that I felt when I read it. Its was probably meant to be a entertaining book about a young girls life. And yet it was more than that. It was inspiration for every to stand stronger and to not have to depend on a man. Cause back in 1964 was a time where women still didn’t have the right to everything a man had. A woman was not such entrepreneurs. It made it possible to believe in a better place than where you live at, by allowing Lily to live a better life.

This book also talks about small elements of life that are looked over every day.100 bees work 5 hours a day for one drop of honey. That being said I consider honey as a blessing. And I’ am sure that every women in this book consider it a blessing to. We swallow a spoonful in the morning to wake us up and one at night to put us to sleep. Honey was the ambrosia of the gods and the shampoo of the goddesses (84). In the book you find Sue Monk Kidd comparing Bees to humans a lot. From what I read they are just like us. Its amazing that something so small can have the same feeling as some thing so big. The whole fabric of the honey bee society depends on communication on an innate ability to send and receive messages, to encode and decode information (The honey bee). Doesn’t that sound just like any other human community? If Humans couldn’t communicate then we would be no where Most important things take team work and team work takes communication. If I had to make a house all by myself it would take forever.
In this book she shows that that every little thing matters and every thing got feelings. She is a kind and caring person. This book shows hope and consideration. It has change the way I look at life. Most books can’t change a life. This is why it is so important. And should be studied by everyone.
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