The Secret life of Bees is written by Sue Monk Kidd it is the story of finding yourself and having the belief that there is always someone out their who loves you. The story is of a girl named Lily Owens, who lives in South Carolina in 1964. She runs away from here home to protect here housekeeper from being executed for not apologizing to white men in the town for being disrespectful to them. Lily fears that the men will kill Rosaleen for disobeying, so they leave. They follow the high way until they reach a small store and recognize a picture on a jar of honey that the girls mother once had. They try to find the maker and find a very nice lady named August and her sisters May and June and the story starts there. I really enjoyed the novel for three reasons it had great imagery you could really see the images in your head, it helped understand the racial tensions that were occurring at this time in United States. Another reason I like the novel was because of the style of writing it was very well written I never felt like it was a chore to read this book it was very fluent throw chapters. If this book were to be turned in to a movie I think that the scene where Lily is running away with Rosaleen and walking on the highway the song should be “Life is a Highway“ by Rascal Flatts. I think the song would suit this scene because it shows that life is like a highway and you have to live every moment of it and take the hills and struggles that come with it but you cant stop driving.
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hmm, sounds like a interesting novel. i was thinking about the "life is a highway" song for a chase scene. was this a long term chase scene? or was it a quick one like in slumdog millionaire?
ReplyDeleteSounds like perhaps the book is better then the movie in this case because I have seen the movie but not read the book. I was just wondering whether you had a view on the book compared to the movie? If so which one would you recommend?
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