Katherine Marting Post 2

The whole fabric of honey bee society depends on communication- on an innate ability to send and receive messages, to encode and decode information.
The Honey Bee
Chapter Nine

The quote above describes how important communication is in society. This chapter portrays a lot of the communication that occurs without words. The encoding and decoding of information in the quote above resembles how humans communicate through body language and actions. For example, when June and Lilly are fighting over the hose they do not actually speak, but both of them are communicating through their actions. When they go from fighting to laughing on the ground with a release of each of their emotions. In the end, they come out much happier, as if wall was broken between them without a single word being spoken.

The author put this quote in the beginning of the chapter to try to tell the reader that the dialogue in the story goes much deeper than the words spoken. Communication between all the characters needed “decoding”, as the quote reads, to understand the full meaning of the actions and words. This quote should make the reader think more about both verbal and physical communication.