Chapter+Quote+Connections

=CHAPTER QUOTE CONNECTIONS=

Hopefully, you realize that the quote and book title that appear at the beginning of every chapter are, in fact, almost a //foreshadowing// of the events to occur in the chapter. Your job is to explain how that introductory quote, and possibly even book title, connect to the action of the plot in that particular chapter you have been assigned. 

//" The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. after a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness." - Man and Insects// In Chapter one we are introduced to Lily and her father, T-Ray. We learn that when Lily was four her mother was accendientally shot and killed. We also learn of the struggles that Lily encounters with her father. He abuses her and is very mean to her. I think that the introductory quote is realted to the chapter by the queen bee being the mother. As it said in the quote when the queen bee is taken away from her hive the hive becomes unable to function. When Lily's mother was shot dead I think that Lily and her father had never recovered. They also seem unable to 'function' or get along. Lily is scared of her father and wants to leave while her father dosn't love Lily and hurts her. -T.S.
 * Chapter One, November 4, 2008**

Chapter Two: November 4th, 2008 // “On leaving the old nest, the swarm normally flies only a few metres and settles. Scout bees look for a suitable place to start the new colony. Eventually, one location wins favor and the whole swarm takes to the air.” // // -Bees of the World // One way that this quote connects to the chapter is that this is the chapter in which Lily runs away. T-Ray is being exceptionally mean to her and she wants to find out more about her mother. She steals Rosaleen back from the hospital, and they hitchhike about three miles from Tiburon, the place where her mother’s picture of the black Mary was from. They did not go very far, as they did not even leave the state. They settled by a river, and spent the night. When Rosaleen asks why on earth Lily picked Tiburon, Lily said because that was where her mother’s picture was from. Then Rosaleen started criticizing Lily and her choice, so Lily stomped off. Later that night, Rosaleen apologized and Lily got her way as they decided to go to Tiburon. I think that in this quote, Lily and Rosaleen are the bees, trying to find their way to Tiburon. -A.I.S.

//"New beekeepers are told that the way to find the elusive queen is by first locating her circle of attendants."// -The Queen Must Die: And Other Affairs of Bee and Men
 * Chapter Three: November 5th, 2008**

In this chapter Lily wakes up from sleeping by the river, with Rosaleen, after they ran away from home. The chapter ends after they find the honey, that Lily's mother owned, they found out who makes it and where it's made. The quote can be interpreted, referring it to Lily's mother as the queen and the honey makers as the attendents. Lily is trying to find out about her mother and Lily knew her mother bought this honey and maybe she could find something out from this bee keeper. -F.C.

"//Honeybees are social insects and live in colonies. Each colony is a family unit, comprising a single, egg-laying female or queen 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 time of year when their presence is required." -Bees of the world//
 * Chapter Four: November 6, 2008**

During chapter four Lily and Rosaleen stumble upon the Boatwright sisters in Tiburon, South Carolina. They are very social and hospitable as are the honeybees in the chapter quote. The sisters offer them work for room and board. Lily Owen's job is to assist the main worker named Zach, who was currently visiting his family. Like the honeybees, he was gone when his presence is unnecessary. //-J.D.//

//"Let's imagine for a moment that we are tiny enough to follow a bee into a hive. Usually the first thing we would have to get used to is the darkness..."// -Exploring the World of Social Insects
 * Chapter 5: November 6, 2008**

This quote relates to how Lily is trying to believe her mother had some connection to where she is living right now. This goes along with the first part of the quote that says to believe that you are tiny enough to follow a bee into a hive. With the second part of the quote, about getting used to the darkness she has to believe that her mother has died. She is also trying to prove that T.Ray is wrong about her mother leaving her but Lily is afraid she is secretly wrong. -E.P.

Chapter 6: November 8, 2008 //"The queen must produce some substance that attracts the workers and that can be obtained from her only by direct contact. This substance evidently stimulates the normal working behavior in the hive. This chemical messenger has been called 'queen substance.' Experiments have shown that the bees obtain it directly from the body of the queen."

-Man and Insects//

During this chapter Lily is with the sisters and Rosaleen during a church service held that the sister's house. Lily listens as "The Lady of Chains" story is told by August. The Lady of Chains story was important because it told the story of a black woman who was not a slave. They seemed to feed off the story, and use it for their own strength. This quote expresses how a hive of bees feeds off a queen's substance for physical strength. The Lady of Chains seemed to be these women's source of emotional strength to help them through everyday life, plus racism conflicts. -M.A.K.

Chapter 7: 11-12-08 //"How did ever become equated with sex? They do not live a riotous life themselves. A hive suggests cloister more than bordello." -////**The Queen Must Die: And Other Affairs of Bees and Men-**//

In this chapter Lily meets Zack, and we learn a little bit more about Neil and June. From what i've read it seems like Lily likes Zack who likes her back and then Neil loves June and she likes him. It would be OK for June and Neil to get married because they are both African-American. But it would not be okay (back in that time) for Lily and Zack to get married. Lily is white and Zack is black. Now in these years it's normal for african-americans and white people to get married and have children, but back then it was not normal, and almost "wrong". Because of the rascist acts going on.

-K.R-

Chapter 8 November 12, 2008 //"Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require its social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters, and she will soon die."// - The Queen Must Die: And Other Affairs of Bees and Men

This quote is telling us that in order to live we need a friend to lean on. In this chapter, Lily finds out that her and August have two things in common, they both like peanuts in their coke and the both like the color blue. “Birds of a feather flock together.” Lily uses this quote to tell how she feels explaining that now she finally has someone lean on and that is similar to her. Towards the end of the chapter, Lily calls T-ray and asks if he knows her favorite color. He doesn’t and she feels that he actually does not care for her or loves her. In the end she, she goes into the pink house and asks the Lady of Chains for help and love. Then she touches The Lady’s heart and goes back to her room. -K.D.

Chapter 11, November 13, 2008

//"It takes honeybee workers ten million foraging trips to gather enough nectar to make one proud honey."// -Bees of the World

I think this quote is saying that it takes a lot of effort to please one. There are two examples in chapter eleven that are connected to the chapter quote. One is how Neil kept on asking and pleading to June that she would marry him. She kept refusing. In this chapter, she accepted, and it payed off because she realized what she was missing. Neil then bought her a beautiful ring, which greatly pleased June. Another example is Mary Day. August, June, Rosaleen, and Lily all made a lot of effort to please the Black Mary. They hung up streamers, put colorful Christmas lights around the bushes and porch, and made honey cakes. The Black Mary was probably very pleased about how much respect August, June, Rosaleen and Lily were giving to her.

-S.H.

Chapter 12, November 14, 2008 //"If the queen were smarter, she would probably be hopelessly neurotic. As it is, she is shy, skittish, possibly because she never leaves the hive, but spends her days confined in darkness, a kind of eternal night, perpetually in labor... Her true role is less that of a queen than mother of the hive, a title often accorded to her. And yet, this is something of a mockery because of her lack of maternal instincts or the ability to care for her young. In Chapter Twelve Lily reveals her identity to August, and asks her for more details about her mother, Deborah Owens. August tells Lily many things bout her mother, including that August was her mom's caretaker, and that she married T-Ray because she was pregnant with Lily. The thing that shocks Lily the most is that her mother left her with T-Ray while she escaped to come and visit August and recooperate from her major depression. This ties into the quote because the quote speaks about what a good mother the queen should be, and how many believe that she is. However, as the quote explains, she is exactly the opposite. This is the same as Lily's mtoher, Lily believed that her mother was perfect, but when she finds out that she was exactly the opposite Lily is very dissapointed. This is how the chapter quote ties into Chapter Twelve. O.K.
 * - The Queen Must Die: and Other Affairs of Bees and Men.**//

Chapter 14 November 19,2008 "A queenless colony is a pitiful and melancholy community: there may be a mournful wail or lamant from within....Without intervention, the colony will die. But intoduce a new queen and the most extravagant change takes place." The Queen Must Die: And Other Affairs of Bees and Men.

I think this quote means when a leader dies the colony will die but when you introduce a new leader the clony is forced to change as it adampts to the new leader. A new leader can to the most extravagant changes. This relate to they chapter by Lily becoming the queen because after May died there ws no queen and the colony was about to die. Then Lily became the Queen and the cony had to readjust to here ways of leading but, eventully they adampted to her. B.T.-