Task: Now that you have read the first chapters of Secret Life of Bees, what is Sue Monk Kidd's writing style based on the various kinds of figurative language styles?
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Sue Monk Kidd's style of based on figurative language in "The Secret Life of Bees" is personification and also orthographic. I say this ,because on pg 3 his character uses her thought of being with her mother again as an example of, "being in paradise". A perfect example is, " "Mother, forgive. Please forgive," and she would kiss my skin till it grew chapped and tell me I was not to blame. She would tell me this for the first ten thousand years". Another example of this style would be, "The next ten thousand years she would fix my hair. She would brush it into such a tower of beauty, people all over heaven would drop their harps just to admire it. You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair. My hair was constantly going off in eleven wrong directions,". As you read there are many different examples of figurative language such as personification and metaphor but the main style was in fact orthographic.
ReplyDeleteIn sue monk kidd's Secret life of bees.
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Lily described as she sneaked out of the house she was suprised by the shining of the fully full moon. Every curve of the moon was filled with light.(22)
Later on in the book.... Lily felt soory for the earth as T.Ray stomped on the earth and lily had put on a sad face because she was very vivid with the feelings of the earth after Ray had slammed his feet in anger.
As the first chapter of The Secret Life of Bees we find that Orthographic ifugres of speech takes place in the first part of the book.
The main style of figurative language Sue Monk Kidd uses in her novel The Secret Life of Bees would be orthographic. Lily exagerates her surroundings and gives it life...more than what it has. for example, on page three she describes her room while she waited for the bees to come: "The room sat in still perfect still stillness..." she uses personification to describe her room, as if the room could stay still rather than have any action ocurring in it. Later she says, "...the night fell over me...feeling like the sky was was my own skin and the moon was my heart beating up there in the dark"(23). It clearly shows that through out the first chapters of the book the author uses orthographic figures of speech to describe the narrator and her surroundings.
ReplyDeleteSo far in the Novel Secret life of bees a thirteen year old girl named Lily has a strong imagination for bees. Since Lily accidently killed her mother at four she is being raised by her father T.Ray. Lily feels like she receiving as much parental support as needed so she think about the bees that visit her room daily and wonder where they came from and what message are they are sending .The only person she really looks to is one of her father's peach pickers, an African-American lady named Rosaleen that doesn't have much say because the black voice isn't valued in Sylvan, South Carolina. One night Lily wanted to remember her mothers loving care she got out of her bed and went to the Orchard where all her mother things were and just layed down and fell asleep. The voice of her father awaked her yelling her name. When he found her he assumed that she was out hiding with a boy. So for her punshment that she has been getting since six years old was kneeling down on Martha Whites which known as Grits for a hour. When Rosaleen found her in the kitchen she began to feel sorry for her and helped her clean herself off. The Next day Rosaleen takes Lily to the market place with her and a white man says a couple of racal comments to Rosaleen about her. As she ignored the comments she walked away waving her fan to keep the cool breeze flowing on a hot summer day.''Where did you get that fan ,nigger?'' he said. Rosaleen felt she couldnt take the rudeness anymore so she poured spit from a snuff jug on the man's shoes. Many other men's came and punched, grabbed on Rosaleen to clean it off .Once she refused they all attacted her leaving a cut beneath her eye that bleed to death. Rosaleen was arrested for Assult and Disturbing the peace.So far i feel that Lily will start to look for new surroundings.
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ReplyDeleteIn chapter 2 Sue Monk Kidd
ReplyDelete(35) she uses an Onomatopoeia to describe the house flies on the screen door.
Ortographic (F.O.S) is used to describe the fear in Rosaleen as her legs trembled.
Hyperbole was used to explain how Rosaleen got back to her feet with the help of not one but both lily and mr.gaston.
An ortographic description is used in the jail cells on page (36) the jail cells smell like a breath of drunk people..This is also seen as a simile.
As lily was in a car (37) she uses a Hyperbole to describe the speed of the car as the speedometer needle wiggled soo much she couldnt tell if it was going crazy or at a certain speed.
She expected the hood to fly off the car and fly into a pine tree.
Sue Monk appears to use Personification as she describes a patient perched on the bed (48) she had a blueberry face..Blueberries does not have a face!!!
So far Sue has used many (F.O.S) to describe her exaggeration and personifide way of seeing things as a child
In the book, "The Secret Life of Bees" the style of figurative language is orthographic and personification.
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"Finally I walked to the window and gazed at the peach trees streching halfway to North Carolina, the way they held up their leafy arm in gestures of pure beseeching."
" I looked down at the bee jar still clutched in my hand and saw a teaspoon of teardrops floating in the bottom. I unfastened the indow screen and poured it out. The wind lifted it on her skirt tails and shook it over the blistering grass. "
( pg 40 )
In the secret bees of life Sue Monk displays personification and orthographic. On page 19 "She was wrestling with the rabbit ears on the top of the TV". This is personifying the antennas and giving them living character traits. As you read on you see on page 20 Sue Monk gives you a visual of how big Rosaleen the house maid is "Roseleen dragged the footstool in front of the set and sat down, so the whole thing vanished under her." We can now see that Roseleen is a heavy set woman. While I was reading this book it caught my attention that there happens to be a lot of irony in it. Lily has this certain connection with bees. She likes them around her and feels peaceful even when there. On page 2 "bees swarm before death... every one of those bees could have descended on me like a flock of angels and stung me till I died, and it would have been the worst thing to happen."
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