Biases In The Secret Life Of Bees

In The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Lily has assumptions, biases, and prejudices about race that are changing over the course of the novel. Lily was raised in an extremely racist environment with T. Ray in Sylvan. Her mother figure and her best friend was harassed just is walking down the street. Even the church folks who claim to love but I guess African-Americans didn’t count. Also she had to break Rosaleen, the woman who played the mother figure in her life, out of jail.

Lily’s biases in The Secret Life Of Bees have altered greatly she now knows that people of color have the ability to fend for themselves, and that they can be strong and influential people.

The most outstanding thing that has caused Lily’s biases to change was the Boatwright sisters. August Boatwright was the person that

This is the boy that that caused Lily to find additional false prejudices and misconceptions that she has internally that she wants to dispose of because she was emotionally and physically attracted to him. “At my school they made fun of colored people’s lips and noses. I myself had laughed at these jokes, hoping to fit in. Now I wished that I could pen a letter to my school to be read at opening assembly that would tell them how wrong we had all been. You should see Zachary Taylor, I’d say.” Lily is realizing now that beauty comes in all colors. She is also again being exposed to the fact that her way of being raised was wrong, that years and years of history was false. “The whole time we worked, I marveled at how mixed up people got when it came to love. I myself, for instance. It seemed like I was now thinking of Zach forty minutes out of every hour, Zach, who was an impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love” If Lily had not realized her ignorance, in this situation where she is marveling over Zach, she might of thought that there is something wrong with her, instead of simple