The Secret Life of Bees (entry7)

10/23/08

Comments:

1. August finally made it clear as to why she did not want to get married; because she felt as if she didn't want to give up her autonomy.
2. Racism becomes a common thing in this chapter. It is portrayed numerous times.
3. Lily is hurt by the picture she sees in Mr. Forest office, the picture of him and his daughter.
4. She decides to call her Dad and speak to him herself, but she could not explain to him anything, all her did was yell at her like he usually does.
5. Lily writes a letter to her dad expressing her feelings towards him, the way speaks to her, the way he treats her, etc.

Questions:

1. If a white man is dating a black women then it must be legal, why are they making it a big deal?
2. Was Lily hurt by the picture of Mr. Forest and his daughter? did it remind her of the relationship she did not have with her dad?
3. Is Lily suddenly depressed and becoming weaker/ letting her emotions show more?
4. Why does she call the "Black Mary" 'Mother'? Does it remind her of her own?

Literary Terms:

1. "Her eyes were mysterious and her skin dark brown with a glow, darker than toast and looking little like it had been buttered."( 138)- Imagery
2. "I was wishing I had a story like that one to live inside of me with so much loudness you could pick it up on a stethoscope"(pg142)-Metaphor
3. "I did have about ending my mother's life and sort of ending my own at the same time."(pg 142)-Symbolism

Words:

1. Obadiah(pg141)-a Minor Prophet.
2. venetian(pg 160)- of or pertaining to Venice or its inhabitants.

Summary Sentence:

• This chapter glossed over the emotions that Lily held against her father, and how much she needed her mother.