Cause and Effect

Author's Note: Secret Life of Bees is a book about a girl named Lilly that is trying to found out what her mom was like and what she did while she was there.

Lilly has been abused by her dad ever since her mom died. At the time she was very happy, she loved her family but after her mom died her dad started to abuse her. Lilly has no clue what to do or where to go anymore. But when she goes to her church with her maid Rosaleen. Rosaleen gets caught for stealing a fan and is sent to jail. Lilly is then alone with her father with no one to talk to and no one to help her, but when she sees this picture of a lady that her mom kept for her she sees a name of a city on the back of it. That gives her an idea, I can just go find Rosaleen and we can go find the city that's on the back of the picture. 

When Lilly and Rosaleen are on there way they think about why Lilly's mom would keep a picture of a lady to give to Lilly, but then they have an idea maybe Lilly's mom was once in that city. Lilly and Rosaleen now what to go there more than anything, they want to see if Lilly's mom really was there. When they finally get to the house that they were looking for they ask the people that live there if they can stay there for a little while. Rosaleen and Lilly both make up fake names so if news spreads out about them breaking out of jail they won't get caught. May one of the people in the story is very emotional. When she was just a kid her twin sister died. Her and her sister were like best friends. They spent every second together but ever since than when she hears something sad she starts to cry. When she finds out that Zack one of their family friends has been in jail. She can't stand it any more and she asks if she can leave to go to her wall but instead of going to her wall she goes out to the river and drowns herself. After she kills herself things get a little better Lilly realizes that her mom really did live in there house and she learns things about her childhood that she wouldn't have found out if she didn't leave her dad.

Lilly reminds me of Lauren from Jealous I Think You Are?. Lauren also doesn't think a lot about herself. After Lilly's mom died she only had her dad to talk to but her dad was always beating her up and telling her how much he hated her. The only person that Lilly really wanted to talk to was Rosaleen but when Rosaleen gets sent to jail Lilly has to make a lot of changes just like Lauren did so they could both be accepted by other people.