The Secret Life Of Bees Chapter Four Summary

In chapter four Rosaleen and Lily have reached the bee-keepers house and have just asked to come in and talk to august. August's sister June answers the door with a stern look and is very stubborn. August's other sister May also come into the room but she is the complete opposite of June she is sweet and full of life. while waiting for august to come into the room Lily takes in her surroundings and notices that there is a statue of a woman that looks like Black Madonna but she looks like she was attached to the bow of a ship. The woman had a red heart on her chest and had her fist raised in the air giving her a serious look. Lily felt as though the statue knew her, all about her. When august came into the room she asked what she could do for Lily and instead of lying and saying she needed honey she told most of the truth, that she ran away from home and needed a place to stay. Lily also lied and said that her mother died when she was little and her father died in a tractor accident and that was in Tiburon on her way to Virgina to see her aunt. August said that they could sleep in the honey house and as long as they stayed there that they would have to work for them. When Lily and Rosaleen got to the honey house Rosaleen fell asleep on the cot and August showed Lily around the honey house. When Lily asked August what she will be working on August said that she would be working with Zach and her, making the honey. The next day before dinner Lily went walking on a path that she found that lead to a wall that stretched out fifty yards long in the wall she found little pieces of paper she took one out and read Birmingham, Sept 15, four little angles dead. after she put the paper back she kept walking and found a little river and went for a swim.

The Secret Life Of Bees Chapter Three Summary

In Chapter Three of The Secret Life Of Bees Lily and Rosaleen have just woken up and start walking into Tiburon when they reach a food store. Rosaleen says she would stay outside because she believes that they will not serve colored people in the store. So once Lily is in the store she spots a jar of honey with the Black Madonna picture on it and asks the store manager who makes the honey in hopes that she will find something out about her mother from the person. The store manager says that the lady's name is August Boatwright. When Lily goes back to Rosaleen, who is asleep on the bench, she tells her about August and says they have to go there. The store manager had said that the lady lived in a pebto-bismol pink house and that she couldn't miss it. on the way to August's house Lily stops into a post office and buys a paper to see if Rosaleen and her where in the paper as missing or wanted, which they weren't.

The Secret Life Of Bees Chapter Two Summary

In Chapter two of The Secret Life Of Bees Rosaleen and Lily are on their way to the police station while the men that Rosaleen poured her spit juice on follow close behind yelling names and making faces at them. When they finally reach the police station the men yell at Rosaleen to apologize and she refuses so the main mad hits her in the head with a flash light and knocks her to the ground. After a few hours in the cell T.Ray comes to get Lily and leaves Rosaleen behind. Once T.Ray and Lily reach the house she goes to her room and sits on her bed and tells her father that she is not scared of him. T.Ray almost hits her and Lily says "My mother will never let you touch me again!" and she runs and sits on her bed. t.Ray lunges at her and gets very close to her face and says that Lily's mother was leaving the day that she killed her and that she was leaving lily behind and that she didn't even like her. Lily sits and thinks about that for a few hours and decided that it would be best for her if she just ran away from home. So she packs her things and goes to bail Rosaleen out of jail. When she gets to the jail the officer said that Rosaleen had to go to the hospital because she fell. So Lily goes to the hospital, even though she was told not to do so, and finds Rosaleen's room. Rosaleen says that two of the men held her arms while the other one hit her repeatedly over the head with the flashlight. When they finally escape from the hospital They hitchhike up to Tirbon S.C. which is the name of a city that was on the picture of the Black Madonna. Once they get there they camp out on a creek bed and Rosaleen and Lily get into a fight and Lily wades across the creek and falls asleep on the other side. She wakes up in the middle of the night and cant find Rosaleen she ends up finding her down the creek naked and floating n her back so she strips down and gets in the creek to apologize.

Things Learned from Chapter 1

Three things that I Learned from chapter one was about the Black Madonna, Jim Crowe Laws, and Brown vs. Board of Education. The Black Madonna was a black version of the Virgin Mary. To the right is a picture of the Black Madonna. Jim Crowe laws were laws that stated that segregation was OK as long as everything was "separate but equal."Brown Vs. The Board of education was a court case that was held because a black man thought it was more logical to send his daughter to a white school that was right down the street instead of her going to the all black school that was 15 miles away it was a large building block for the civil rights movement.

The Secret Life of Bees Chapter 1 Summary

The novel The Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd takes place back in the 1960's. A young girl named Lily lives with her father who she calls T.Ray and her black house maid, Rosaleen. Lily is 14 years old and does not find her self attractive because she has no friends and she wears clothes that she makes in home economics. Her mother died when she was 4 years old and her father has put it in her head that Lily killed her mother. Clues from the book suggest that Lily's mother was packing that day to leave when T.Ray came up the stairs and was yelling and shaking her mother, she then picked up a gun and t. ray threw it on the ground. All Lily remembers after that was picking the gun up and the gun shooting. since her mother had died T.Ray has punished Lily by making her kneel on all fours on grits and work on the peach farm selling peaches. T.ray hates that Lily reads,which she does a lot, because he thinks it gives her ideas of going to college which he thinks is a waste of money. One day Lily finds a few of her mothers things and hides them in the field. On occasion Lily would go out to the field to look at them to try and remember her mother. One night she goes to the field and gets out her mothers possessions she ends up falling asleep in the field with her shirt unbuttoned and T. Ray finds her. T.Ray assumes that Lily was out in the field with a boy and makes her kneel on the grits for an hour. The next day Rosaleen says she is going into town to register to vote and Lily decides to go with her. they walk all the way into town and decide to stop in a church to rest. while they were in the church Rosaleen steals two fans and then leaves. When Rosaleen and Lily are walking through the town some racist white men start to make fun of Rosaleen for being black and Rosaleen pours her spit jug on the men's shoes. So the men lunged at her and attacked her. After they were satisfied that she was hurt they called the police and Rosaleen and Lily were taken to jail.