secret life of bees
...tephens house as a housekeeper and master gardener, and Rosaleen is Lily’s babysitter. Rosaleen was always there for Lily when she needed help. Rosaleen acted as though she was Lily’s mother.“…She is full of crazy ideas, which I usually ignored…” Lily says, about Rosaleen. Mothers are always full of ideas, which usually you never listen to. Rosaleen is almost like a mother to Lilly. Matsu has so much knowledge that he passes on Stephen. “Matsu swung the furoshiki he carried and glanced down at the wreath he held in his other hand. ‘Each tree is symbolic of prosperity, purity, longevity, and loyalty.” Matsu is a very wise man, he explained using metaphors what the wreath symbolized. Lily and Stephen are very a like. Both of them are looking for something, however Stephen doesn’t know what that something is, and Lily does. Lily is looking for information on her diseased mother Deborah. Stephen is sent to his grandfather’s beach home to recover from his illness. While he is there he finds a girlfriend, and he learns a lot too. Stephen says on the first line of the book, “I wanted to find my own way…” He needed to find himself. Ever since he was diagnosed with bronchitis, he never had any alone time, so he went to Ko...