The Secret Life of Bees takes place in the year of 1964, in the midst of the civil rights movement. The main character Lily lives in the Deep South in a small rural town. Lily lives with her very cruel father, T. Ray and an African American woman named Rosaleen. On her birthday Lily decides to go to town with Rosaleen, who is registering to vote. Once in town the two encounter a group of white men. Rosaleen insults these men and because of her color, is sent to jail. Lily soon rescues Rosaleen from jail but is forced to flee the town. This incident propels Lily to go to Tiburon in search of who her mom really was. Had the setting not been during the civil rights movement, Rosaleen would have not been thrown in jail because of her color. With nobody after her, Lily would have remained at her house living a normal life. She then would have never set off to discover who her mother truly was. This would have completely changed the whole plot of the story.
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I agree with you, though I don't know if I would call her life with her dad "normal." But certainly, there would be no story at all if it weren't for that incident
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