the secret life of bees - st. agnes academic high school
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The Secret Life of Bees By: Sue Monk Kidd
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Setting
American South (S. Carolina)
1964
Year of the Civil Rights Act
Racial unrest
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Characters
Lily Owens
14 years old
T Ray
Lily’s father
Rosaleen
Lily’s nanny
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Characters
August
Boatwright
Beekeeper
May & June
Boatwright
Augusts’ sisters
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Characters
Neil
June’s boyfriend
Zack
Works for August
Friends with Lily
Mr. Forrest
Lawyer in town
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Characterization
Characterization – The way the author
presents the personality of a character.
Directly - describing the character
Physical features
Indirectly - by showing the character’s
actions, speech, and thoughts and how they
affect the other characters
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Character Traits
The qualities that a character possesses Kind
Shy
Motivated
Courageous
Humorous
Influential
Manipulative
Easily Influenced
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Character Traits
List 2 traits (one general idea/word) for the
following characters:
Lily Owens
T. Ray
August Boatwright
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Conflict
Major problem in the plot of a literary work
Internal Conflict Struggle in the mind of a character who must
resolve something.
External Conflict Struggle between characters
Between characters and a force of nature
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Major Conflict
Lily’s search for:
Truth
Answers regarding her mother
Happiness
Love
Family
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Symbol
Something that has an actual meaning
and then can be further explained through
a deeper meaning.
The Bees are a major symbol in the novel
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Theme
Controlling idea
Main idea
Message the writer conveys
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Themes
The power of women
Race relations
Search for love
Family
Belonging
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Style of writing
The way the author expresses his/her
ideas
Coming of age story
When a character goes through a huge
transformation in their personality, life, or way of
thinking in a short amount of time
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Foreshadowing
Hints/clues in a story that give the reader
advance warning of events to come
What foreshadowed the fact the August had
known Lily’s mother?
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Irony
Contrast or difference between what you
think will happen & what actually happens
A situation is ironic when it is totally different
from what the reader or character expected
What situation(s) would you consider IRONIC
in the novel?
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The Secret Life of Bees
Explain in detail the following quote using specific examples from the novel.
“The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness.”