Neil wants to marry June, but June keeps refusing. She swore off men after she was jilted by a man when she was a young woman. Lily could tell that Neil was crazy about June and believed she was crazy about him to. Lily's first impression of Neil was that he was the tallest man she'd ever seen.
What is the situation between Neil and June? What is Lily's first impression of Neil?
100
Lily comes from an abusive home. She does not want to be sent back to her father T. Ray. I don't think Lily wants them to know who her mother was as well.
What do you think about Lily's choosing to lie to the boatwrights about her history and name?
100
Lily begins receiving lessons from August about “bee etiquette,” which August again equates to the human world. Lily learns lessons about not being an idiot and sending out love.
What are you supposed to learn about bees at the end of chapter 5?
100
Sylvan, South Carolina
What town is Lily originally from?
100
She poured spit from her snuff jug across white men's shoes.
What action landed Rosaleen in jail?
200
The narrator, Lily, longs for her mother, who died when she was four years old.
What is the narrator long for at the very start of the novel?
200
The scents that Lily smells usually are linked to her past, especially memories of her mother. The smell cold cream,for example, reminds her of her mother.
Why does the author spend so much time focusing on the scents Lily is smelling
200
Zach agrees to teach her to drive but not in his car.
What does zach say when lily wants to learn to drive?
200
She does not have any friends at school
Who is Lily’s best friend at school?
200
She gets stung by a bee.
What causes August to call Lily “a true beekeeper”?
300
The metaphor was that it was time for her to leave. She compares herself to bees she had trapped in a jar. If the jar was open, the bees would leave. Similarily she must leave home.
On page 41, Lily thinks to herself "Lily Melissa Owens, your jar is open."
300
Lily is a sad girl with a lack of self-esteem. She feels unloved and and unwanted. T. Ray adds to this by verbally abusing Lily and taking out his anger on her.
How does lily feel about herself?
300
Lily is only a teenager that must navigate through issues of coming of age, race, abuse, and identity. Lily's two main traits are her determination and her longing for maternal love.
What are Lilly's characters traits?
300
Rosaleen’s arrest
What convinces Lily to leave home?
300
Ms.Lacy
Who tells Lily’s father where she is?
400
August brought Lily a hatbox full of her mother's belongings. It contained her mother's pocket mirror, her hairbrush, a gold whale pin, a black poetry book, and a picture of Lily and her mother.
What does august bring lily in the hat box?
400
Lily cannot yet tell August about her life because she fears what August might say. Sh resolves to tell August the next day.
Why can Lily not tell August about herself now that May's funeral is over
400
Lily and Rosaleen are running away to Tiburon. Lily hopes to find someone there who knew her mother.
Where does Lily decide her and Rosaleen are running away to?
400
Rosaleen practiced signing her name in cursive because it was a requirement to register to vote.
Why did Rosaleen practice writing her name over and over in cursive?
400
He punishes her with kneeling on grits, a painful punishment she has been enduring since she was six. She is left with small welts all over her knees.
What is T. Ray's punishment for Lily?
500
Lily’s goal throughout the novel is to understand her true mother. She does not understand what the presence of a mother would really be like, but she feels her mother’s absence constantly.
What are some of the themes in the book?
500
The setting is in Sylvan and Tiburon, South Carolina around 1964.
Describe the setting of the book
500
Lilly compares finding May's body with the way Our Lady washed up on the river.
To what does lily compare finding mays body?
500
Shoe
What was the nickname of the policeman who took Rosaleen and Lily to jail?