Reflection on The Secret Life of Bees

Greetings everyone! My classmates and I are assigned by our teacher, to write some reflections after reading the novel entitled The Secret Life of Bees including whether we like it or not and are we going to recommend this book to others. So, here it goes.

To be honest, I'm not too much into reading novels. I do read novels but only certain type and genre. My favorite one is the Diary of A Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, but Im not going to talk about that book, obviously. So lets move on. My first impression for the Secret Life of Bees is that story is going to be boring. That is the reason why I procrastinate on reading the book until Ms Shereen pushed us to read the whole novel. Then, when it came to the middle chapter and so on, the story became more interesting and I finally managed to finish it.

There are many things that I have learnt from this novel. First and foremost, I learnt that not everyone was born under a lucky star. In this novel, Lily's mom had died when she was four. After her mom's death, she lived with her mean and abusive father and the maid, Rosaleen. In this case, we have to be very grateful for what we have before everything disappear. Moreover, I learnt that racism is not a good thing. In the novel, the racism issue is a hot potato and very serious because the white people discriminate the blacks. Discrimination brings harm to the victims. How can the people achieve success in every single aspect if everyone is narrow minded? In today's era, racism is no longer the issue and that is one of the reason why we achieve success globalisation. Furthermore, I learnt that love has no skin color. The calender sisters who are the african american love Lily who is an american and Lily also love them. Lily live happily with them in the pink house. They stand with each other which makes them even stronger. 

I really enjoy reading this story. I like the way the author made the setting of this story. It really opens up my mind because I get to know the way people live and interact in 1960. However, there are a few things that I dislike. I dont like the way Sue Monk Kidd potrayed T-Ray. He was so mean to Lily. He is so abusive to her by punishing her even though Lily did nothing wrong. I totally see eye to eye about Lily running away from T-Ray. He is so messed up. Other than that, remember when August is telling Lily about her mom? Lily suddenly became angry and mad because the story did not satisfy her. In my opinion, she supposed to listen carefully and patiently to what August is telling. 

At the drop of a hat, I would like to recommend this book to others. It has a lots of values that we can learn from it, not only just the ones that I have stated. It can opens our mind and not being a narrow minded person. Well, thats all from me. Bye :)