The Nature Of Grief : Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life Of Bee's Anonymous 12th Grade

Melancholy leaves an engraving on the individuals who encounter it. Some can survive its profound distress, others can't. In the Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd, she investigates the impact of distress on the primary characters. The novel opens with fourteen-year-old Lily Owns battling with the learning that her mom was dead since she, as a baby, grabbed a stacked weapon and coincidentally shot her. She flees from her damaging father in scan for answers of who her mom was. Lily bums a ride to Tiburon, South Carolina; the area composed on the back of a picture of the Black Madonna – one of the main effects she has of her mother's. There, she finds a pink house possessed by the Boatwright sisters who are African American ladies influencing Black Madonna to nectar. The Boatwright sisters have had their offer of melancholy with the demise of two of their sisters and the racial bigotry they look notwithstanding the entry of the Civil Rights Act.

The Boatwright sisters and Lily Owens have diverse techniques for adapting to melancholy; disguising, disregarding, and overlooking are a portion of the ways they adapt, with shifting degrees of achievement. They find that they should live past their melancholy, or else it will shred...