Hey guys, it’s me again. Days and weeks has passed by and I can finally say that I have finally finished reading the novel of “Secret Life Of Bees”. Yes it took me some time to finish the book as you can tell I’m quite of a slow reader. Although I’m a slow reader, I got the time to fully understand the plot of the story and what it was trying to potrey in the novel.
Based on this novel, I personally have learned a few number of things that I could grasp from it while reading this. One of the things that I have learned is that racism is a pretty big factor in this novel. As the setting of the novel was being held at a time where the whites pretty much overruled against the coloured, there’s a lot of things that we can learn from this as nowadays we live in a time where the colour of the skin doesn’t matter anymore and everyone is now accepted for who they are as a person. For example, the african americans were poorly discriminated at that time and we’re mostly abused from the whites. From this we can learn how it doesn’t matter who you are, everyone should have their equal freedom of speech and wiling to do anything that they want without anyone restricting them. It doesn’t matter if you’re gay or straight, small or big and even white or black, everyone should have the right to speak up for themselves and should have equal respect for each other.
Another thing I learned from this novel, we should always accept the truth eventhough we don’t want it to be true. Plus, even if we find out the truth is not what we expected it to be, we shouldn’t give hate towards it and should always fully understand the situation first before simply jumping into it and make judgement. For example, at the ending of the novel it states that Lily found out that her mother Deborah actually left her and T.Ray and went to stay with August in Tiburon. Lily couldn’t accept the truth of how her mother left them because she always had this mindset of how sweet and loving her mom is and never thought she could do such a thing to her. Lily was always sad and down because she never really got to know her mom very well and all she wanted was to spend more time with her mom and feel what’s it like to have a mom in her life. Because of this she was filled with rage and just couldn’t accept the truth but sooner on she learns to accept her mom’s decision and moves on. From this we can learn to always forgive and forget eventhough the person has done much wrong in the past. We should hold grudges towards them and always accept them back into our lives no matter how horrible their mistake was.
What I loved about this novel that it showed how people should stand up for themselves and their rights no matter how much hate they receive. For instance, this type of character has been shown by different types of people in the novel like Rosaleen and Zach. Rosaleen stood up for herself when some people called her a nigger and treated her poorly and Zach stood up for his friend when his friend threw a water bottle at a policemen and took the hit for his friend. This shows how brave these type of people are and they’re not afraid to stand up for themselves. Another thing I love about this novel is how some people can accept one another for who they genuinely are and the colour of the skin is not a matter to most people. People should not be quick to judge a person like the saying “Don’t judge a book by it’s colour” because you never really know the person until you get to know them. I realised that this is very much shown in this novel like how August accepted Lily and Rosaleen to stay at their home eventhough Lily is a white person and August and her family are of different skin colour, they still accepted her. Other than that, August didn’t want to kick her out of the house once she knew the truth about her and found out that she was lying. This shows that eventhought they live in such a time where the blacks are discriminated, they still show great morals towards others. Basically I just didn’t like how people just always had this mentality and this negative image of the african americans. Like we shouldn’t be quick to judge as they are human beings just like us too and they should be given equal respect.
In conclusion, I would really like to recommend this book to other people as I have learned quite a lot of new morals and I think people can learn a lot from this once they have finish reading this book. Trust me, this book may be quite long but it definitely has it benefits.
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