Secret life of Bees Summary

         Over the summer I read "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd. This book is very inspirational. It's about a girl named Lily Owens. Throughout the book, she experiences a lot of life changing events. It starts with lily being home. It's just lily and her father. The mother had died from a faithful death that might've been caused by lily herself! The father drinks and treats lily wrong because of this. Lilly's only friend is her nanny Rosaleen who is an African American. After taking a brutal beating from white men, lily runs away with Rosaleen to escape her lifestyle. Later on, lily encounters four sisters. Their names were June, August, and may. Living with these three women make lily see things through another perspective. Lily had always thought that all Africans were like Rosaleen. A slaved worker for the white men. But after meeting August she realizes that in her own way had been racist like everyone else assuming all Africans. She learns that people really are different. Later in in the book, lily's father arrives at August' house asking about lily. Lily finally stands up to her father and asks what had happened the day her mother died. He said that lily had shot her by accident with the gun. The father decides that she could live with August and he left. After that she learns that sometimes the truth can hurt. But she also sees this as a good thing because now she doesn't have to stress and keep assuming how her mother died. Now she's free because she found the truth and knows that she is forgiven by her mother.