The Secret Life of Bees (entry1)

10/20/08

Comments:
1. The first couple of pages i was introduced to this new character by the name of Lily, who is very interested in Bee's.
2. As Lily the story continues we come to figure that her mother is dead, and the fact that she is not around is haunting her.
3. Lily lives with her dad and her "stand-in mother" by the name of Rosaleen; who nurtures her like a mother, while her dad is not the definition of a father to her.
4. Lily reminisces on her mother and the last day she seen her before she died. The facts and memory are blur at this point to her and she wants to find out more of it, but her dad refuses to speak of it.
5. "On July 2, 1964.. the president of United states signed the Civil Rights Act into the law in the East Room of the White house.."

Questions:
1. Did Lily kill her mother?
2. How long will T.Ray take to tell Lily the truth about her mother?
3. How did Rosaleen fit into the family? Who was she before she became a counterfeit mother to Lily?
4. What makes Lily so interested in Bee's? why don't they sting her?

Vocabulary words:
1.Presumptuous (pg2)-full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought
2. clomped (pg6)- To walk heavily and noisily
3.Vitalis (pg9)- NOT FOUND.

Literary Terms:
1. " .. looking for a flower, just flying for the feel of the wind, split my hear down its seam."(pg1)-metaphor
2. "The bees came the summer of 1964, the summer i turned fourteen and my life went spinning off into a whole new orbit, and I mean a whole new orbit."(pg1) - Plot

Summary:
The first 20 pages introduced the life of lily and the life she lives. It revolved around her family and surroundings.