Cause and Effect

Author's Note: For language arts, we had to analyze a story that we've read and pick a main event that happened and explain the conflicts before that and how the story would be different if it hadn't happened.

The Secret Life of Bees

          The story The Secret Life of Bees is about a girl whose life is terrible. If you think your life is terrible because you have to do chores, have good manners, and always tell the truth; think again. Lily's life is ten times worse than that.

          Her father makes her kneel on grits for hours on end if she does anything wrong. Another punishment is getting slapped in the face. Oh, and did I mention Lily accidentally killed her mother when she was four? If I didn't tell you, now you know. Lily gets sick of it though.
          The climax of the story occurs when she decides that the best thing to do is run away with her stand-in mother Rosaleen. She ends up at a honey bee house with colored women. Consequences of the climax are  someone gets arrested and another person commits suicide. It's not all bad though because one of the colored women gets married because the women commits suicide.
          So, the next time you ever think that you want to run away or that your life sucks, just remember, your life is not in the same level of bad as Lily's.