Sue Monk Kidd's Novel The Growth Theme Of The Secret Life Of Bees

The Secret Life of the Bees,a novel by contemporary American writer Sue monk kidd,takes the American society in the 1960 s as the background and the growth of teenagers as the theme.It is a special experience of American white girls and black sisters and black teenagers associating and growing up together.At the same time,the novel focuses on female identity and awakening,and the situation and beliefs of black people.It explores gender issues and race issues and shows the growing profile of teenagers of different colors in contemporary America.The growth of lily,an American white girl,is a special growth full of trauma.The death of her mother and the brutality of her father have done great harm to lily's growth.Lily's broken family and lack of affection have become the biggest obstacles to her growth.At the same time,lily is also affected by the growing trauma of her black sisters who are closely related to her.From the growth of the enlightenment-mother and Rosalyn,to the growth of the guide August-to the companions of growth-the other black sisters and black teenager Zach.They walked lily through the trauma after she lost her mother and left her father.So that lily has gained cognitive,self-growth and other aspects.Lily's rite of passage is accompanied by an Epiphany,including black rituals,the wonder of nature,the "secret life of bees" andexperiencing the death of loved ones and friends.These special nodes and turning points in her growth propelled lily to overcome the difficulties in her growth,and finally reconciled with the trauma.In the artistic expression recording the growth of the heroine,the novel presents lily as the center of full of spiritual,perceptive adolescent perspective.At the same time full of resistance and contradiction of adolescent discourse.There are also "secrets" in the growth of teenagers that not only enrich the narrative content of works but also constitute the text structure of works.It highlights the theme and characteristics of the growth of contemporary American teenagers at a certain age.