Blog Entry #3

Months before even knowing about the summer reading for this class, I saw the movie, "The Secret Life of Bees". Definitely one of the best movies I've ever seen, and when I saw that the book was on the list, I had to read it. The book, written by Sue Monk Kidd, was amazing. The book dealt a lot with racism and the affects of it. The narrator of the book, Lily Owens, learns that she accidentally killed her mother when she was younger. Lily also has to deal with her rude father, T. Ray. Lily and Rosaleen, their black maid, leave and try to find somewhere else to stay. They meet August Boatwright and her family, a black family that makes honey for the town and let's them stay at their house, even though Lily is white. This book showed how discrimination, in any form, is rude and unnecessary and definitely made me look at things from a different point a view, and even though racism is still alive today, it shows how far we've come.