Lily Owens lives on a peach farm with her careless and abusive father who wishes to have a "normal" family .There are multiple conflicts in this book like, Lily having an abusive father. However, the main conflict is Lily wanting to find out certain information about her dead mother. Lily wants to find information about her dead mother but she is unable to because her dad will not tell her.
In the book, it clearly shows that Lily is longing for a caring father and wants to know about her mother who has been dead for 10 years. The things Lily wants to know are things such as, the person who killed her mother with the gun, the reason her mother had a gun, and the reason her mother was acting the panicky way she was the day she had been killed. Lily has been stuck for many years wondering these things, but had a major deprivation of the details regarding them.
The resolution turned out to be very happy and relieving. It started when Lily and her housemaid ran off to a small town that Lily's mother was linked to. Lily and the maid ended up in the house of three loving sisters who were friends with Lily's mother a while back when Lily was a baby. Over the course of time during Lily's stay at the three ladies' house, she slowly discovers information that she has been thriving for so long. She was upset at first, because she found out that she was the one who accidentally killed her mother. Lily eventually came to terms with the shocking details and was put at ease. The love grew fond between Lily and the three women, so it was decided that Lily would stay with them as her permanent home and would be free from her unlovable father.
In the book The Secret Life of Bees the main conflict is Lily wanting to find information about her mother who is dead. Over the course of the book, Lily learns valuable life lessons and discovers information that she was in search of.
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