post 4:Setting Of the Novel (Ashley)

Setting:The context and environment in which a situation is set; the background. The time, place, and circumstances in which a narrative, drama, or film takes place.

Passage:Pg 51- " We started walking. If you think the country is quiet , you've 'e never lived in it. Tree frogs alone make you wish for earplugs. We walked along pretending like it wasa regular day. Rosaleen said it loked like that farmer who'd driven us here had a good crop of cantaloupes.I said It was amazing the mosquitoes weren't out.

When we came to a bridge with water running beneath , we decided we would pick our way down to the creek bed anf rest for the night. It was a diffrent universe down there, The water shining with flecks of moving light and kuduzu vines draped between the pine trees like giant hammocks. It reminded me of Grimm Brothers forest, drawing up the nervous feelings I used to get when I stepped into the pages of fairytales, where inthinkable things were likley - You just never knew."

Explanation: This is just one of the many settings in this book. I choose this passage because I felt that this was the best passage that explained the novels setting.The author's purpose of this passage was to make the reader feel like they were there with Lily and Rosaleen. She wanted the readers to feel lost but free at the same time. I know that this is the author's purpose because while reading this I felt exactly like that. I felt as if I was there with them.If closed my eyes I could just Imagine the creek and the darkness and the sounds of the crickets and frogs. I also felt really scared and lost for lily because they were in the middle of nowhere and she had no idea what to do once they did get toTiburon. I also felt Free because she was finally free from T- ray and she didn't have to live with him making her feel miserable.

Post 3:Flashback (Ashley)

Flashback:A literary or cinematic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological order of a narrative.

Passages:pg17-19: " "Lily you're starting school tomorrow so there are things you need to know. About your mother. For a moment everything got still and quiet, as if the wind had died and the birds had stopped flying. When he squatted down in front of me, I felt caught in a hot dark I could not break free of.
" It's time you knew what happened to her, and I want you to hear it from me. Not from people out there talking. We had never spoken of this, and I felt a shiver pass over me. The memory of that day would come back to me at odd moments. The stuck window. The smell of her. The clink of hangers. The suitcase. The way they'd fought and shouted. Most of all, the gun on the floor, the heaviness when I'd lifted it.I knew that the explosion I'd heard that day had killed her The sound still sneaked into my head once and a while and surprised me. Sometimes it seemed that when I held the gun there hadn't been any noise at all. that it had come later,... now,
T-ray scooped up a handful of dirt and let it fall out of his hands." The day she died she was cleaning out the closest," he said. I could not account the strange tone of his voice, an unnatural sound,how it was almost, but not quite,kind. Cleaning the closet.I had never considered what she was doing the last minutes of her life, Why she was in the closet, what they had fought about. " I remember" I said " You were yelling at each other." A tightening came to his face. "Is that right?" he said.His lips had started to turn pale,which was the thing i always watched for.I took a step backward. " Goddamn it, you were four years old!" he shouted " You don't know what to remember." In the silence that followed I considered lying to him saying I take it back I don't remember anything, but there was such a powerful need in me,pent up for so long, to speak about it, to say the words...

Explanation: This passage shows Flashback in the book. The protagonist, Lily is remembering back to when her dad was trying to tell her what happened with her mom, and how she died. He thought that she wouldn't remember what really happened, and he could lie to her. He got really mad when he found out she does remember. I think that the purpose of this passage was to show the relationship between Lily and her dad During an early time. It really shows how T-Ray looses his temper really quickly with Lily, even when she was little. It also shows the fear Lily has of him when he walks her way and when his lips turn white. I know this is the authors purpose because She really goes into depth about how scared she was and how outraged T-Ray was. I think this is important to the rest of the book because it shows T- Ray and Lily's relationship more further and might explain something further in the book.

post 2: foreshadowing (Natalia)

Foreshadowing:The novel opens with Lily watching bees fly around her bedroom. These bees foreshadow Lily’s interaction with the Boatwright sisters at August’s bee farm.[pg 1-] At night i would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracs of my bedroom wall and flew circles around the room, making that propeller sound, a high pitched zzzzzzzzzz that hummed along my skin. I watched their wings shinning like bits of chrome in the dark and felt the longing bulid in my chest. The way those bees flew, not even looking for a flower just flying for the feel of the wind split my heart down its seam.
During the day I heard them tunneling through the walls of my bedroom, sounding like a radio tuned to satic in the next room, and I imagined them in there turning the walls into honey combs, with honey seeping out for me to taste.

The bees came the summer of 1964, the summer I turned 14 and my life went to spinning off into a whole new orbit, and I mean I mean whole new orbit. Looking back on it now, I want to say the bees were sent to me.I want to say they showed up like the angel Gabriel appearing to the Virgin Mary, setting events in the motion I could never have guessed. I know it is presumptuous so compare my small life to hers, but I have reason to believe she wouldn't mind; I will get to that. Right now it's enough to say that despite everything that happened that summer, I reamin tender toward the bees.

I chose this passage because in the beginning of the book it tells us about Lilly's in teraction with the bees. Then this moment foreshadows her interaction with the Boatwright sisters because they are beekeeping sisters.

post 1:Internal Conflict (Natalia)

Internal Conflict (natalia)
Motherless Lily lives unhappily with her emotionally detached father, who claims that Lily, as a small child, accidentally killed her mother. When her black maid and only friend Rosaleen gets arrested for confronting three racists, Lily decides to break Rosaleen out of jail. Together they run away to a place Lily suspects her mother once spent time.[PG 49-51] We stood on the side of Highway 40 in a patch of shade provided by a faded billboard for lucky strike cigarettes.I stuck out my thumb while every car on the highway sped up the second they save us. A colored man driving a beat-up chevy truck full of cantaloupes had mercy on us. I climbed in first and kept having to scoot over as Rosaleen settled herself by the window.
The man said he was on his way to visit his sister in Columbia, that he was taking the cantaloupes to the state farmers' market. I told him I was going to Tiburon to visit my aunt and Rosaleen was comingto do housework for her. It sounded so lame, be he accepted it.
"I can drop you three miles from Tiburon," he said. Sunset is the saddest light there is. We rode a long time in the glow of it, everything silent except for the crickets and the frogs shield as the burned lights took over the sky.
The farmer flicked on the radio and the supremes blared through the truck cab with "Baby, baby where did our love go?" Theres nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything so precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful. I laid my head against Rosaleen's arm.I wanted her to pat life back into place, but her hands lay still in her lap.
Ninety miles after we'd climbed his truck, the farmer pulled off the road beside a sign that read Tibruron 3 miles. It pointed letf toward a road curving away into silverly darkness. Climbing out of the truck, Rosaleen asked if we cpuld have one of his cantalopes for our supper.
"take yourself two," he said.
We waited till his taillights turned to specks no bigger than lightning bugs before we spoke or even moved. I was trying not to think how sad and lost we really were. I was not so sure it was an improvement over living with T. Ray, or even life in prison. there wasnt a soul anywhere to help us. But still, I felt painfully alive, like every cell in my body had a little flame inside it, burning so brightly it hurt.
I chose this passage because it shows the journey of Rosaleen and Lilly to get to Tiburon because it is one of their conflicts that they have because Rosaleen escaped from prison and now they are on the run. Lilly ranaway from her house.