Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life Of Bees

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Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd is a writer who was born in Sylvester, Georgia. She is 68 years old. She currently lives in Charlestown, South Carolina. She went to local public schools. After graduating from high school she attended Texas Christian University or TCU. She graduated there with B.S. in nursing. In her early twenties she became a Registered Nurse and a nursing instructor at the Medical College of Georgia. In her thirties the took a writing course at Anderson College in South Carolina. She was greatly influenced by Thomas Merton.
Her first writings where spiritual memoirs that describe her journey through Christian life and feminist theology. Her first novel was The Secret Life of Bees it describes the journey of a young white girl who runs away from home and lives with a group of African American bee keepers. It was written in 2002 but based on the civil writes movement. Which was a time of a lot of racial tensions.
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It is targeted at kids with a rough and that are entering the ages a maturity to show even if you are abused of poor you can still succeed in life.
In the novel Lilly the main character asks the reader questions as if she is telling a story. She has a very blunt tone which gives you a since of her personality.
The Secret Life of Bees was written to reflect on her childhood growing up in the segregated south. It was also influenced by her fathers story's about maids and slaves in his house as a child. The African Americans were forced to work for wealthy southerners by “Jim Crow Laws” which took civil rights away for the newly freed slaves. These laws where so severe that they made whites and blacks have different restrooms, schools, and water fountains. They were also forced to take only certain jobs which included dish washing being maids and working in field all for low