second blog post

From where  I left off in "The Secret Life of Bees", the main character Lily Owens is now living with the calander bee keeping sisters May, June and August. Lily is starting to help with the beekeeping. A new character appears and his name is Zack, who helps with the beekeeping. Then some weeks later Zack and Lily go to get something from the store and Zack and his friends are making fun of some white folks. One kid throws a glass bottle at a white person. No one tells who throws the bottle and they all get sent to jail. Lily does not go to jail. May has a problem where she breaks down because of others problems and kills herself.
Pg 163:" the candle in the red glass beside the Mary Statue sill burned, looking like a tiny red heart in a cave of darkness, pulsing out light to the world"
Pg 100"The night seemed like an inkblot I had to figure out."
The writer uses imagery to create an aesthic effect by giving vivid images and describing something so ordinary in deatail and making it seem so unordinary.

Post #1

The book I am reading is The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. The setting is in South Carolina in 1964, during the Civil Rights Movement. The main character is named Lily Owens. She lives with her abusive father named T-roy. Her mother died when she was very young, because her parents were fighting and Lily's Mom grabbed her gun. The gun fell to the floor and Lily picked it up and accidently shot her mother. So Lily has a black "stand in Mother" named Rosaleen. One day Rosaleen goes into town to vote and Lily comes along. The president just passed the law that said that colored people were able to vote. Rosaleen and Lily get harassed by some white racists while going to town and Rosaleen upsets them by pouring dip or snuff on their feet. Rosaleen and Lily get thrown into jail. Lily gets picked up by T-roy and he starts being more abusive so she runs away. Lily then gets Rosaleen out of jail and they become fugitives. Lily has a blac virgin mary picture from her mom that says Tiburn, South Carolina on the back. So thats where Rosaleen and Lily are headed. In a store Lily sees the same picture on a jar of honey and goes to the house where they make the honey. She is then taken in by the beekeepers, August, May and June.

Paragraph on page 61:
"From far away the store on the edge of town looked about a hundred years old, but when we got up to it, I saw it was actually older. A sign over the door said Frogmore Stew General Sotre and Resturant, since 1854.
General Sherman had probably ridden by here and decided to spare it on the basis of its name, because I'm sure it hadn't been on looks. The whole front of it was a forgotten bulletin board:Studebaker Service, Live Bait, Buddy's fishing tournament, Rayford Brothers' Ice Plant, Deer riffles $45, and a picture fo a girl wearing a Coca-Cola bottle cap on her head. A sign announced a gospel sing at the Mount Zion baptist church if anyone wanted to know."
From this paragraph you can tedd the book is from the viewpoint of a child. From the words like"looked about a hundred years old". The sentences are run-ons so that is another clue that the paragraph is told from a chold's perspective. The author also uses a colon to describe everything on the bulletin board on the front of the store. The colon lets the list flow and the rhythm is steady. You can tell the narrator is fascinated with the store since she lists everything on it and describes it for two paragraphs. The word tell the setting is in the south, because general sherman fought for the north in the civil war.

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