The Black Madonna

The Black Madonna played a big part in this book. She was the picture that August put on all the honey jars so I decided to look up what it is.
A Black Madonna is a statue or painting of Mary in which she is depicted with dark skin, especially those created in Europe in the medieval period or earlier. In this sense "Black Madonna" does not apply to images of the Virgin Mary portrayed as explicitly black African, which are popular in Africa and areas with large black populations, such as Brazil and the United States. So that is what a Black Madonna is. (the picture above is a Black Madonna)

Book Quotes

Another thing I enjoyed about this book was the quotes at the beginnning of a chapter. They sort of gave you an idea of what was going to happen. When the quote said "A bees life is but short...Workers die before they have reached even that age", May died. It's almost like that quote is foreshadowing the chapter ahead.

Least Favorite Chapter

My least favorite chapter in this book is the first one. Everything bad happens to Lily and Rosaleen. It's almost like a big chapter of depression. Things don't turn better until Lily runs away in the next chapter.

Book Cover

<- Turns out there's about 10 different covers for this book! I thought there was only one cover for Secret Life of Bees.

Poll

If you could be any character from the book, which one would you be? Why would you be this character?

Favorite Chapter

My favorite chapter in this book was probably chapter 12. In this chapter Lily learns that her mom actually did love her. Lily has had such a horrible life and now she finally had something good happen to her. I'm glad that she learned the truth

Working at Beehives

I thought it was surprising that Lily enjoyed working at the beehives so much. Seeing as she spent almost her whole life working on the peach farms, I thought she'd be tired of work. Working at beehives is probably even harder then selling peaches because there's a chance of getting stung and then you could die.
<- that is a picture of what the beehives might've looked like.