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=EXTENDED METAPHORS AND THEMES= Certain things will be reemphasized and introduced throughout the book which are clearly an important part of the author’s message. Point out the examples in your chapter and explain your choices.These things could may be metaphors or a revisting of a certain message, or theme, by the author Explain how the topic of your chapter is related to other themes or metaphors throughout the book.

In chapter 1, when Lily went running to T. Ray's room to tell him that there were tons of bees in her room, and then when they went back to see, they were gone. At first i was really confused, I thought to myself "I bet they all just hid in the wall again." But now that I think about it, i think that maybe it was a sign to Lily. Maybe she was imagining that the bee's were in her room. Maybe it was the beginning of a new future, you know what I mean? Also something else that was significant in this chapter is when they spoke about how Lily's mom died. Lily and T. Ray both probably felt a lot of grief and pain. Especially Lily because she believes that she was the reason that her mother died. Chapter 1 was a very eventful chapter, even though it's only the first chapter. Once you read it, you just want to keep on reading the book. K.R.
 * Chapter 1,** 11-4-08 -

November 4, 2008 The theme that is introduced in this chapter is secrets. Its seems to me that every character in this book is hiding something from eachother. The way T-Ray acts around Lily when she brings up the day her mother died seems like he is hiding somthing. Plus, he has told many versions. In this chapter T-Ray tells Lily that her mother ran away and the day she died, she had just come back to retrive her belongings. Also, Lily has a secret. She hides her life from T-Ray and she goes out into the peach feilds and lays out there at night with her mothers belongings. She has been trying to find any last traces of her mother. When she found her mothers belongings, she never told anyone. Rosaleen and Lily also share a secret. They both keep mum about Lily escapeing from T-Ray, escaping out of the hospitail with Rosaleen, and stealing snuff from the store. I think we will learn more secrets and truths about each charater and his/her feelings that is hidden right now. Chapter 2 is full of important events that I think will help us understand the book in future chapters. -K.D.
 * Chapter 2**

November 9, 2008 The theme of Chapter 3 is the start of a new life of maturity. Lily says herself that is i the start of something new at the very start of the chapter. She has began to branch out from many things, including T-Ray and she has become an overall stronger person. She shows control over Rosaleen which can be good and bad. She treats Rosaleen like she is the child and that she herself is her parent showing that she is being disrespectful but also that she knows how to take control over a situation. This is considered a good skill to have. During this chapter, LIly starts to search for her mother and travels to a place that is unknown to her just to look for at least a sign. This shows she is serious about the new life she is trying to achieve but during the journey, Lily and Rosaleen dont have any supplies to suppor them. No food, water, or a place to stay to spend the night and Rosaleen is colored which was a challenge to get by even with the civil rights movement. This chapter shows more maturity which will help in the rest of this novel. -R.L
 * Chapter 3**

November 5, 2008 **Chapter 3** The theme in Chapter 3 is dominance. T-Ray believes he has complete control over Lily because of the way he treats her. When Lily runs away he probably realizes that he doesn't have nearly as much control over her as he thought he did. By Lily running away she's showing who needs who, and she's showing that she doesn't need him. Through this she is establishing dominance over T-Ray. All throughout Lily's life Rosaleen has been a mother figure towards her, but in this chapter Lily begins to think she is in charge of Rosaleen. She begins to speak for her, and decides what she will and will not do. This showing of dominance is based on racism that occured during this period of time. I believe that dominance and who is dominant over who will appear later on in this book and continue to be an active theme. -R.C.M.

November 5, 2008 **Chapter 4** One of the themes in Chapter 4 is color. As the girls walk to the Boatwright house, the author talks about the pink glow the the house gives off. The approach a pink light. Pink makes me feel like love and softness. That is what the girls want to find because they come to find out if August knew their mother. Their hopes were pink, with love. The author seems to talk about a lot of color from the Black Madonna Honey to the red rose snuff to the descriptions she gives of each sister. The first sister is June Boatwright is wearing a red dress that fits her stern personality. The secind sister they meet is May Boatwright with a green and white dress who is a little off in the mind. As they are waiting on the last sister, August Boatwright, the author spends a lot of time describing the carving of a woman - a black woman from the ship Santa Maria (the St. Mary) with a red heart on her breast and a yellow crescent moon.When they finally meet August, her skin is soft with pink palms, buttery almond skin and a bright green scarf tied at her waist. I think colors say a lot about the mood the auther is conveying. And I think color will be something to watch for throughout the book. -B.L.T.

November 6,2008 **Chapter 5**

The theme of this chapter is evaluation. As we found out in the fifth chapter, May, June, August, and even Lily's characters are evaluated. At the beginning of the chapter, August buys Rosaleen clothing. This showed August to be the caring and understanding of one "the calendar sisters." While watching the news, May, began to hum "Oh! Susanna" at a frantic speed, because an African American named Mr. Raines was killed by a shotgun. She would also hum "Oh! Susanna" at anything sad or painful to anyone else. To "let the misery slide right off" her, she was to take a calm honey bath. This shows her to be the worried sister. In the chapter, August tells Lily a very symbolic story. The story was about a nun named Beatrix, who leaves the convent because she is unhappy. After being gone for a while, Beatrix begins to miss life as a nun in the convent. When Beatrix finally returns to the convent, she is in disguise. She asks one of her old nuns if she remembered the nun Beatrix who ran away, and the sister told her that she had not run away, that she was sweeping the alter. After confronting the women that was supposed to be Beatrix, Beatrix had discovered it was Mary, the virgin mother of God. Mary had been standing in for her the entire time she was gone. This was symbolic to Lily, because Lily had run away from T- Ray. What August was trying to tell Lily was that August knew Lily had run away, but sooner or later, she would want to go home. She was to ask Mary for help.

-V.R.C

November 6, 2008 **Chapter 6** The main theme of this chapter is loss and sadness. As we found out in the fifth chapter, May is easily upset. At the beginning of chapter six, May becomes very upset because her sister had decided not to marry a particular man who she clearly loves, if June can really love, she is so very grim all the time. Lily’s pancake, shortly after, burns up on the stove, which is more symbolic when she looks into the trash can and sees the burnt up ‘L’ shaped pancake “L for Lily” she thought when she saw it there. Later in the chapter, Lily went to touch the statue in the parlor, and she fainted. This statue was of Mary, and personally I think that since she fainted right before she was going to touch the statue, it was a sign for Lily, because she couldn’t touch the statue of Mary, who never sinned, while still living a lie to the people who had welcomed her as a guest. The last thing in this chapter, was that August, while looking up at the moon with Lily and Rosaleen, said that they were looking at the last of something. This was because they had just found out about the race to the moon’s current standing, and the fact that the moon was going to lose some of its mystery, because they were going to see it up close and it would just be another science experiment. F.J.

November 11th, 2008 **Chapter 7** One theme of chapter 7 is love. Love is something that Lily had experienced very little of in her life. T-Ray doesn't treat Lily like he loves her. Lily's mother died so she doesn't experience her mother's love for her. I think that one of the reasons Lily ran away was because she felt like she was unloved. By running away she wished to change that. Rosaleen I think loves Lily and Lily loves Rosaleen. Since coming to the sisters house Lily has experinced love. But when she meets Zach she really starts to see how wonderful being loved and loving someone is. For Lily having someone love her is really different than anything she had every experinced. We also see in this chapter how Lily is starting to forget about the real world, but she is still scared of T-Ray finding her. As Rosaleen said Lily is forgetting that she can't live at the sister's house forever and that she can't just keep lying to keep her dream world alive. I think that when the time comes for Lily to leave that it will be really hard for her because she now knows what it is like to love someone and to be loved. -T.S.

Extended Metaphors and Motifs November 11th, 2008 **Chapter 8:** One motif is the Black Madonna picture. It shows up a number of times i.e. Lily’s mom’s picture, the honey, and this time, Lily and August are putting the Black Madonna labels on the honey. August said the reason that she puts the Black Madonna on her honey is because people who she shows the label to realize something. The thing that they realize is that divine things can come in dark skin and that everyone needs a God that looks like them. I agree. Everyone has their own picture of what they think their God looks like and sometimes the picture you have in your mind may resemble you, or someone that you look up to. Since most people do not see God until they are in heaven, everyone has the right to think that their God looks like them. Lily may disagree with August about the color of God's skin, her I bet that she agrees that eveyone's God looks different in their eyes. -A.I.S.

I think the theme to this chapter is love and friendship. The theme shows up several time throughout the chapter. The first time was when everyone woke up early and knew it was a hot day and moved throughout town, giving sugar water to the bees. Another time was when everyone was playing in the sprinkler, and when June and Lily had their first moment of friendship. Also when Lily had the courage to tell August about her running away from T-Ray. The final section of the chapter also showed love, May loved Zach, and when he was put in jail she couldn't stand the sorrow so she ended up killing herself. I don't think she would have done this if she didn't deeply love Zach. -FC
 * Chapter Nine,** November 11th, 2008

I think the chapter theme is finding youself. In this chapter, you will find at the very beginning that Lily is finding herself. She finally finds a place where she fits in and where she is loved by many. Even if she has stuggles with other people in the house, there is still a feeling that she is loved and has people that care for her which T-Ray didnt show much while she was staying with him. Not only did she feel loved but she was around people similar to her. People who had the same interests as her and the same living ways. Even August tells her that she is a natural bee keeper and this shows Lily that she is something and has something to live up to. This theme was shown throughout the chapter and the book. -R.L
 * Chapter 9,** November 11, 2008

November 13, 2008 **Chapter Ten**

The theme of chapter ten is mourning. May Boatwright went out to the wailing wall to get ahold of her emotions, and decides to commit suicide by drowning herself in the river. The Boatwright sisters were not the only ones especially mourning over the loss, but Lily, Rosaleen, and the Daughters of Mary also. This group gathered at the Boatwright's home every day for four days for a vigil in honor of May. Before she died she decided to leave a suicide note for August and June, which wasn't found until later, saying that she would be happy up there with her sister and parents, and that it's there time to live, so don't mess it up. Then, following an old tradition, August, Zach, and Lily covered the beehives in black cloth to keep the bees from leaving when someone died. Having bees around was supposed to ensure that the dead person would live again. -J.D.

November 14, 2008 **Chapter Eleven** A recurrent theme in this chapter is waiting. It seems that after May’s death everyone’s waiting for some sign to show that it’s okay to move on. They’re in a limbo of sorts. Lily is waiting to reveal who she is to August. Neil is waiting to propose to June. In this chapter Zach tells Lily to wait until they can be together. He tells Lily to wait until better times come. In a sense, the whole country is waiting for something big to happen in regards to Civil Rights. The country is bracing for a huge change. Of course some people are welcoming, if not craving that change, they’re willing to die for it, whereas some people are doing everything in their power to prevent that change. I think that can relate to Lily also because she wants so desperately to learn the truth about her mother, and to tell August who she really is, but at the same time she’s scared to do it. So, instead Lily just waits. I think the author purposely made Lily’s struggles parallel to those of the country to emphasize them. R.C.M.


 * Chapter 12**- Extended Metaphors and Themes

One of the important themes that come up in this story is love and family. In this chapter Lily finds out about her mother and father, and what really happened. She also finds out that her mother did leave her, but she did not do it because she did not love Lily, but because of T. Ray. Lily also discovers that June, May, Rosaleen, and August all love her. She thought that she was an unlovable child, and she was proven wrong. “ That’s a terrible, terrible thing for you to live with. But you’re not unlovable. Even If you did accidentally kill her, you are still the most dear, most lovable girl I know.” August said this to her when Lily was telling her about all of the lies she had told. Lily discovers a lot of important facts in this chapter, but I think that the most important thing that Lily discovers is that she is loved. S.M.

November 19, 2008 **Chapter 14** One theme that is brought up through out the story is forgiveness. After August uncovered the items that Lily's mother left behinde, she became sad and angry that her mother left her. For several days Lily mourned by the river unitl she finally forgave her mother for leaving her as a child. She understood that her mother just needed time away from T.Ray and time to reflect then she would come back for Lily. Another time forgiveness was shown was when T.Ray arrvied at August' house. He became so frustrated and angry with Lily because she refused to come back home with him. In T. Ray's mind he wasn't yelling or angry at Lily, he was yelling at Deborah, Lily's mother. He felt the same desertion and loss of love that he felt when Deborah left him. Lily and August helped convince T.Ray to let Lily live with August. Even though he nonchalantly allowed Lily to stay I think it was his way of forgiving Lily for accidentally killing her mother. He knew that it would be best for her and that it would be what her mother would want. After T. Ray was in his car Lily asked him if she really did kill her mother. His voice was gentle and sorrowful when he said that she accidentally killed her mother. I think this was when Lily finally forgave herself for accidentally killing her mother. I think she felt that T. Ray thought of her as something bad, something that needed to be punished. Once he finally gave recconition that it was an accident Lily stopped blaming herself. -M.M.W.

November 19, 2008 Lily has had mixed emotions about T.Ray. August always has been there when you need her. The celebrating of the Our Lady of Chains. The last part of celebrating Mary day August 15th. Honey being something that is used for dead bodies and used for relgous reasons amoung the daughters. O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm that flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed of crimson joy, And his dark secert love does thy life destroy.
 * Chapter 13**