Love and secrets

So in my journals I talked a lot about emotion, and how the book made me feel. So starting this journal out that makes me have the emotion of love and relationships. On page 67, at the top the bees of the world quote, "Honeybees are social insects and live in colonies. Each colony is a family unit, comprising a single, egg-laying female or green and her many sterile daughters called workers. The workers cooperate in the food-gathering, nest building and rearing the offspring. Males are reared only at the times of year when their presence is required."

This quote really begins how one simple emotion can be spread out in many different ways, and I really enjoyed how this book could do that for me. Continuing on through the book and the emotion of love is expressed on page 83, with the honey song that May taught Lily.

Place a beehive on my grave, and let the honey soak through.

When I;m dead and gone, that's what I want from you.

The streets of heaven are gold, and sunny but I'll stick with my plot and a pot of honey.

Place a beehive on my grave and let the honey soak through.

I believe that May shared this song with Lily because she was accepting her as part of the family and this is true love.

Love can be expressed in so many ways, that it is not even possible to demonstrate all the ways that I saw it in this book, but I am going to share a few that really hit home for me. These next two are more in the relationship category between a boy and girl. No matter the age of two people and any other issue, love can hold them together and pull them through any problem.

On page 116, Lily simply thought to herself, "If he was shocked over me being white, I was shocked over him being so handsome". This was something that has happened and can happen anytime with any situation, but I liked how the author stated Lily realized that he was shocked and then that she was shocked. As Lily and Zach began to not see each other as much, they had a conversation that sent chills down my spine.

"You are one-third my friend, one-third brother, one-third bee partner, and one-third boyfriend." They continued in conversation and then Zach said, "We can't think about changing out skin, we have to think about changing the world, thats how we gotta think".

This conversation made me realize that the author of the book, was trying to express that there is so many things in this world that make things a challenge and an obstacle. I really like how the interaction of the two main characters were able to express this obstacle so sweetly in the middle of the book and maybe not even be said plain. But be said in an almost juicy way.

Lily had a goal with her whole life, and even though I do not think she knew what it was, it was in her gut. Her goal in her life was to find out about her mother, and why she felt such a lost from her. Lily always wanted her mother to send a sign down to her telling her what to do, and finally toward the end of the book (which of course when it should happen) the sign was shared. All it simply was, was a sign that she was loved by her mother. This may not seem like much, but to Lily it was a huge sign.

And lastly as I finish up my blog I would like to pull a sentence out of the middle of page 148. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about. Even though this is true, it also is true that there were stories inside stories that were remembered and shared as the bees were seen. At August's where there were bee stories, there was also so much more that came out. This I think is where the title comes from.