Journal 4 - Nick

     When I read this section of the book I knew there was going to be a lot of conflicts to be tied up or even left alone to be resolved with the end. I thought the story would deal with more conflicts than just deal with one. I did not like the ending of the book very much because it felt slow to me. It took forever for her father to try and get her to come back; it took the whole duration of the book. I thought T. Ray would be a stronger father and fight harder for his daughter but I felt like the story focused on power of females and made Lily and the sisters win.

     When the book ended I thought it was still continuing because the tension and atmosphere was still thick so I thought it would end more peacefully than it did. I enjoyed the last section most because I found many things out that I needed to too be satisfied, such as the fact that she was the one who had killed her mother when she was a kid. I also figured out that her dad always loved her which was much unexpected knowing the way he treated her in the first quarter of the book.

     When the Boatwright sisters protected Lily from the wrath of her father they made the father leave and Lily stay with them. I liked this ending because it would make no sense for Lily to go back after a long time of figuring out where her mother came from.

     On page 286, August told Lily that a hive without a Queen the bees would die very fast and be confused unless they can retrieve another one. This conversation made me think that maybe Lily resembles the bees and she has no mother, “Queen”. This made me think that throughout the story the bees are a symbol of Life and how it can fail without guidance. Luckily August took her under her wing and helped her.