Meghan Wetterhall Post 1

The book, The Secret Life of Bees, takes place in a small town in South Carolina during the1960s. While living with her single father on their peach farm, a young girl named Lily Owens begins to question her past. She knows very little except that her mother was killed and it was her fault. Lily's life on the farm is very difficult. Her father is constantly abusing her and destroying her already fragile self-conscience. Lily soon finds that the only way for her to deal with all of the anger in her life is to go out to the special place in her peach orchid. Here, she reflects on her life and allows all her worries and troubles to disappear, if only for a short while. Without this special place, Lily would break down. This small place is one of the most important places in Lily's life: it is one of the only places Lily has ever felt like she was loved and that she really did belong somewhere in this crazy, segregated world.