Review of the film “The Secret Life of Bees” “The Secret Life of Bees” is a film that introduces us to the incredible journey of a young girl named Lily Owens. She grows up with the horrible memory of the day she accidentally killed her mother. She and the family maid who tried to fill the void as her mother, Rosaleen, escaped the abuse Lily received at the hands of her father, T-Ray. After Rosaleen heard the news of the passage of the Civil Rights Act on television, she decided to seize the opportunity and register to vote. As they arrived in town to register Rosaleen, she threw the juice from her chew container at men who made fun of her. She was arrested and that's when they fled. When Lily asks her father for more information about her mother, he tells her that the day she dies, she will come back to collect her things. He tells Lily that his mother didn't want to take him when she left. This upset Lily because she believed that a child couldn't have two parents who didn't love him. Lily owns very few of her mother's possessions, but the few items she does own include her mother's gloves, a picture, and a wooden picture of a black Mary. On the back of the wooden image was written Tiburon, SC. It became their destination point when they left Lily's hometown. As they reach Tiburon, they stop at a grocery store and Lily notices that the same image that is in her wooden picture is also on the honey jars. They investigate and are led to a house where the “calendar sisters” live. These three amazing women help Rosaleen and Lily by letting them stay with them in their bright pink house. It is here that the two learn about bees and how they work as a society...... middle of paper ....... Lily gets to stay in a home that makes her feel loved. She writes her story, including her thoughts and emotions, in a book given to her by Zach. This film takes place in South Carolina in 1964. It was the height of racism in the South. ("Do Something.org") Many African Americans found support from a nonviolent African American activist named Martin Luther King Jr. The result of all civil rights movements was the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. It was not uncommon to see a colored maid or cook in a white person's home. home.Works CitedPrince-Bythewood, Gina, dir. The secret life of bees. Fox Starlight Pictures, 2008. “Racism Against African Americans” DVD. . Np, online publication at Do Something.org. Internet. December 18.2013. .