Alex post 2

At the beginning of Chapter 7, the quote reads "How did bees ever become equated with sex? They do not live a riotous sex life themselves. A hive suggests cloister more than bordello." This quote points to the arrival of Zach. The faint hints of a possible relationship between Lily and Zach comes to mind when you read the quote after reading the chapter. Also, the fact that Lily has never felt attracted to a black man, or never even knew they could be handsome, is echoed when the quote asks how bees "ever became equated with sex." And to top it off, the quote says that "they do not live a riotous sex life themselves" it points at the fact that Lily has never really looked at someone as more than a friend. So it is quite obvious that Zach and Lily will fall in to a relationship later in the book.