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Title: The Secret Life of Bees
Author: Sue Monk Kidd
Date Published: 2002
Setting: South Carolina, 1964
Genre: Fiction
Tense: Past
Meaning of the Title: Using bees as a metaphor for humans, Kidd
shows how most of the characters are not what they seem on the surface.
Thus, people’s lives are usually much more complex and complicated than
they appear
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Protagonist: Lily Owens
Antagonist: T. Ray Owens
Mood: Serious/Inspirational
Point of View: First-person, limited
Exposition: Chapter 1, where we learn that Lily’s mother died
mysteriously when she was very young and that Lily lives a miserable existence
with her cruel father, T. Ray
Climax: When Lily confronts T. Ray at the Boatwright house
Outcome: Lily rids her life of the toxic T. Ray and lives permanently
with August and Rosaleen
Major Theme: Secret Lives
VOCABULARY
Ornery-mean-spirited
Imbecile-stupid
Carouse-to act boisterously
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