Secret Life of Bees Evaluative Essay Imagine a scene where you are around four years old again. You have an object in your hand that feels incredibly heavy, but you’re not quite sure what it is. You extend your arm to hand to your mother, this cold, dense and oddly shaped object. All of the sudden it slips a little in your hand and you squeeze your grip to keep a hold of it. In that same moment, the object explodes and falls out of your hand. When you look up at your mother, she has a blank expression on her face and a small hole in her forehead--her eyes are empty. Lily Owens lived this scene in the book The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. This is a very powerful scene in the book that carries immense significance. The book would certainly lose its identity without it. The scene also takes place…show more content… In fact, Lily feels more than motherless. She feels like she is unlovable, and her mother will never forgive her. In the film Lily says, “‘Why didn’t you love me’” (Secret Life of Bees movie)? She says this when she finds out that her mother had left her with T. Ray and had fled to Tiburon to live with August. So not only does the film capture Lily’s struggle of being without a mother, but also the fact that she felt unloved. Another huge similarity between the novel and the film would be one of the final quotes from both. At the end of the film Lily says that “I have more mothers than any three girls off the street. They are the moons shinin’ over me” (Secret Life of Bees movie). This quote is almost verbatim from the book. Showing that in both the novel and the film, Lily finds love and a plethora of mother figures in her life. Not only do the novel and film share similarities in this respect, but also in their exposure of Lily to the inequality issues of the
