A huge way in which forgiveness is a theme in Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Beesis that Lily, the main character, must forgive herself for accidentally killing her own mother when she was a small child. Her mother, Deborah, had left her abusive husband T. Ray, but she had come back for Lily. In a fight between Deborah and T. Ray, a gun somehow ended up on the floor near Lily, who...
A huge way in which forgiveness is a theme in Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees is that Lily, the main character, must forgive herself for accidentally killing her own mother when she was a small child. Her mother, Deborah, had left her abusive husband T. Ray, but she had come back for Lily. In a fight between Deborah and T. Ray, a gun somehow ended up on the floor near Lily, who was only four years old at the time. Lily does not exactly remember how things happened, but she accidentally pulled the trigger, and Deborah was shot.
Lily carries a heavy guilt with her, as well as a deep longing for some sort of connection to her mother. It is Lily's box full of her mother's possessions that helps her and Rosaleen find the Boatwright sisters, who help her create a new life for herself and learn more about who her mother was.
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