The Secret Life of Bees (Chapter 1-3)

Summary
Lily, who thinks she killed her mother, tries to think of her mother which she has little memory about. She keeps a box with her mother's picture inside, her mother's white gloves and a wooden picture of Mary, mother of Jesus. A Civil Rights Act is passed so Rosaleen, a black maid who lives with Lily and her father, go into town with Lily. Rosaleen gets into a fight with some white man and ends up spitting them. When she is arrested, people honk showing their excitement of a black woman getting arrested. Rosaleen was hit in the face with a flashlit and hurt badly, but the policeman watched and did nothing. On their way back home, Lily wonders why her mother would own a picture of Mary. She goes into a store and ask the storekeeper about the picture of mary on the honey jar. He tells where it came from and Lily tells Rosaleen that's where they should go next.

Quote
"People who think dying is the worse thing don't know a thing about life" (Kidd 2)

Reaction
Reading this quote really made me think twice. To me, death is the worse thing because then, I stop living. After I read this, it made me stop reading for a while. I actually took a nap thinking about what could be worse then dying. Then I thought, taking someone's life for a stupid reason is worse than dying. Taking someone's chance of making decisions and simply living is unbearable.