The Secret Life of Bees

Author's note: My goal is to have a good description for the book The Secret Life of Bees.



Did you know that there three types of bees in the hive? They are the Queen, Worker and Drone. I learned this when I read The book The Secret life of Bees. This book helps you learn quite alot of facts about bees, but it also tells a story about a teenage girl, her maid, 3 old ladies, a black mary, bees,an anger management dad, and a pink house.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a house that's pink? Well Lily melissa Owens moved into one and started living in the house with her maid/ friend Rosaleen and with the owners- August, June, and April Boatwright. Lily moved in with them because her dead mother Deborah had a picture of a black mary and deborah had written Tiburon, South Carolina on the back so lily decides to go find the people who made the picture. On her way to Tiburon she stops at a gas station and she sees that they sell honey with the blac mary picture on the front. So she asks the worker where they came from and he gave her the directions to the pink house.

Once She walked there, she saked to stay with them, but they asked why she was in Tiburon. So she told them a little white lie saying that she was someone else, and how her dadwas dead, so they were travelling to Arizona. August saw right through her. She knew that she was deborah's daughter right once she saw Lily. But she played along so her sister April doesn't get confused.

August doesn't want to get April confused because, April is really special. She feels everyone elses feelings along with her. She feels everyone elses problems and feelings because April had a twin sister, that had killed herself when they were 14 so April had all this grief on her that made her start to feel everyones feelings. Since she has so many break downs from that they had made a crying wall for her. April puts pieces of paper in the cracks of the wall and the pieces of paper have names on them saying she prays for them, and whenever she fills the wall up she gets more stones and makes the wall bigger and longer.

When April died Lily started being the annual visitor of the wall and had to make more wall. Especially one day. The day that her and August had their talk about Lily's mother. That day was really emotional for the both of them. It was emotional for August because she was finally telling Lily everything she knows about Deborah, and how she was her nanny when she was younger. Plus it was emotional for Lily because she found out all this stuff about her mom that she didn't want to know, like how her mom had left her. But her mom came back for her.

Another time that sent Lily to the crying wall was when T-Ray found her. That was probably one of the scariest days of her life. At first it started out as a normal day. Then Lily opened the door when someone knocked and it was T-Ray. Lily could see the fury in his eyes and he wanted her to come home with him, but Lily had friends who had stopped T-Ray from taking her away. Once T-Ray finally realized that Lily would never go back home with him he left for good.