Thursday, October 2, 2008
Rebecca Hanrahan Post 1
The Secret Life of Bees is set during the times of segregation. This is very important for the novel. Although Rosaleen is black and Lily is white, they still love each other. Rosaleen stands in as a maternal figure for Lily, because Lily feels like T. Ray doesn’t care about anyone but himself. When Lily decides one afternoon to run away with Rosaleen, the novel has a major turning point. Lily is so fed up with T. Ray and his ridiculous punishments that she is willing to risk her future and reputation, just to get away from her father. Rosaleen and Lily really trust each other to run away together with practically nothing. The two ladies both seem to internally know that everything will turn out alright in the end.
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This is mostly plot summary, Rebecca. As the first poster, you could have followed up on the racism angle easily, since you didn't have to worry about not duplicating others' ideas. But you really didn't say much about the impact of racism, which is the part of your response that answers the question.
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