A Sample Post for the Second Third of a Novel

This is an example of a second blog post based on a student's reading of The Secret Life of Bees:

Throughout the entire story, Lily feels guilty about her mother's untimely death, and longs to know more about her. So naturally, when she and Rosaleen flee, she runs to a place that she believes meant something to her mother. That is how they end up in the small town of Tiburon, South Carolina, where the majority of the novel takes place. 

When they arrive, Lily hunts down that place where her mother's "black Mary" picture came from, the home of three African American sisters raise bees and make honey. When Lily first knocks on their door, she tells August, June, and May an elaborate lie about her going to visit her aunt, and needing a place to stay until she can get there. 

She is afraid to tell the sisters her true intentions of discovering more about her mother, for fear that they will send her away. I found this fact somewhat ironic. The book takes place in the '60s, the time of the Civil Rights movement. I thought this was strange that she thought the sisters would not accept her for who she was, when their entire lives they had been striving to be accepted and treated equally. I assumed that, in a way, they would understand just what she was afraid of.

As Lily spends more time with the "calendar" sisters as she calls them, she begins to care for them and receives the love and care that she has never experienced in her childhood. The sisters are so giving and kind, she begins to feel guilty about lying to them all this time. This leads to the second time that Lily shows maturity by deciding to tell the truth and accept the consequences (good or bad) that may come with it.