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
Your Required Response Instructions:
- As we move into Chapter 8, make a prediction about the events to come.
- In what ways does this apply to the novel already?
The quote in beggining of chapter 8, "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." gives the hint that one of the sisters is soon to die. It also applies to the novel already also because, April, May's twin sister has died already and if kind of kills May on the inside. August says, "When April died, something in May died, too. She was never normal after that." and after the death of April, May became the main focus of attention. This would make her the queen bee to her sisters, once she is sperated from her sisters the queen bee will soon die too. If you think about it closly, it gives the hint that May might not be around much longer.
ReplyDeleteA prediction that i think will happen in the futuer of this book is someone is going to get hurt. I beleieve this becuase in the quote that sumerises the chapter it says that the bee will soon die. Since it says that, that means that something bad is going to happen the calender sisters. Or at least one of them. This already applies the novel allready becuase April Boatwright died and she got taken away from her family. Another example is that Lily's mom died to and got taken away from her. This quote forshadows alot in this book.
ReplyDeleteI predict that something bad will happen to one of the sisters. All ready June is having trouble with Ian.
ReplyDeleteThe quote in chapter 8 has me thunking of death, family, social issues, and the loneliness of someone in the story. I predict that one of the main characters will die. "Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die," is what lead me to think that. Then I also picture who is the person who always crys and is emotional. That would be May. I thought something bad would happen to one of the characters and will reduce the chances of May having another one of her dramatic break downs.
ReplyDelete"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," this does reply to the novel because after I finished chapter 8, 9, and 10 it started to make more sense. Lily talks to her dad and then she gets upset. Then seeing the police a lot makes Lily terrified again. In chapter 9 Zach goes to jail and no one wanted to tell may about it. In chapter 10 May finds out and has another dramatic scene but won't talk. Later that day, May is the isolated honeybee which dies by committing suicide in the river. thats how it relates to the novel so far.
In chapter 8 i think one of the calendar sisters or "queens" of the farm will get isolated and die. I feel this way because the 3 calendar sisters are the "queens" of the farm or hive and if you isollate a sister( there aren't any others) she will die. This already applies to the book when Lily's mother was separating herself from the family, she died. Lily looked up to her mom as a queen which is why i feel she deserves the title of "queen"
ReplyDeleteFrom reading chapter 7 i predict that Lily and Zach will grow a stronger relationship because it seems like they are getting closer and closer. I also predict that May will become Rosalees Lily because Rosaleen is moving into Mays room because May gets scared at night, and now that she left the honey house, and is not sleeping in the same room as Lily, their friendship might break apart, but then again, Rosaleen said that she will never leave Lily, but who knows.
ReplyDeleteMy prediction that Zach and Lily are gonna be in a better relationship already applies to the novel because they are already really good friends, and Lily thinks that he is the best friend that she has ever had, and she also already dreams of him.
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”
ReplyDeleteMoving into Chapter 8 and using connections with the quote, I can predict that the idea of running away from home will start to slowly catch up with Lily. Although Lily may have second thoughts about running away from home, she will probably remember the hours of kneeling on grits as a punishment from T. Ray, and stay with the Boatwrights . In the quote it also makes me think that she will have more thoughts about her mother. In the quote her mother is the queen bee and she is just one of the regular honeybees who lost the leader that they need “social companionship and support” from. This quote already applies to the book because of the way it states how the honeybees depend on the queen bee, and how Lily is now a mess without the love and care from her mother. In the beginning of the book, Lily explains how you can tell which girls have mothers and which don’t by the condition of their hair, just the way bees will die without their queen. They need the love and help from a leader who cares about them, like the Boatwrights, and not someone cruel like T. Ray or, even worse, no leader at all.
This intro from The Queen Must Die gives me an idea of what’s to come. I predict that Lily will become or feel isolated from the Boatwright sisters. The end part, “Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die,” makes me think that a death will take place. Both death figuratively and literally have happened before in this novel. In Lily’s old family atmosphere, Deborah desired isolation from T-Ray, and in turn died soon after. When Deborah was gone, she figuratively “died” with only T-Ray to take care of her. When she left what was left of that “community”, and broke Rosaleen out of the hospital, there was almost a point where they got separated. From what happened in the few seconds that they were separated, I think that she would not have survived without a fellow “bee”. “Rosaleen, where are you?” In the Boatwright family, there are examples of queenlessness and death. When April committed suicide, everyone felt the loss of a family member, and May was hit hardest. She shows great signs of loss and grief. She has already “died” figuratively. Overall, I predict Lily will feel lost due to a loss of communication between her only family at the moment, the Boatwright sisters.
ReplyDeleteIn Chapter 8, Zach mentioned a white movie star bringing a colored date to the tibuon theater. In fear that this fact would upset May, August gives her an excuse to leave. The statement " Honeybees depend on not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require its social companionship and support. Isolate a bee from her sisters and she will soon die. The queen must die." relates to mays relationship with her sisters. June and August must constintly exclude her from many conversations and situations inorder to keep her from becoming upset. I predict that May will grow apart from her sisters because she is already isolated from them. They do not trust may and often segregate her, which is why I think May will some how leave her sisters
ReplyDelete"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
ReplyDeletePut this quote in the context of the Secret Life of Bees, and the honeybees are the Calendar sisters, Rosaleen, and Lily, while "dying", perhaps, is a metaphor or hybperbole for defeat or giving up. But what might happen later on in the book that might symbolize or actually demonstrate this? One theory that I have is that Lily will be isolated from, or perhaps kicked out by the Calendar sisters and Rosaleen and will give up her search for her mother. Or maybe it will be revealed that Lily's real fellow honeybee is T-Ray, and her separation from T-Ray will ultimately lead to Lily and Rosaleen's demise, as is foreshadowed in the scene is Chapter 8 where Lily calls T-Ray.
Funnily enough, this already kind of applies to the novel. T-Ray's isolation from Lily and Rosaleen has made him the laughingstock, the fool of the community, and he cannot dare to venture outside of his home for fear of being humiliated.
I predict that one of the booatwright sisters will die, because the quote says "isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die." It already applies to the novel because Lily's mother died.
ReplyDeleteI predicted that in this chapter, somebody will die because this prompt says "isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die." So I think that ine of the Boatright sister will be away from the family and die somehow. This applies to the novel already because May says " it is your time to live, and my time to die," So i am predicting that she will die somehow. This is my predictions for chapter 8.
ReplyDeleteAs we move into Chapter 8, there are many predictions I have for the events to come. The quote at the start of Chapter 8 says “Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.” The quotes at the beginnings of the chapters normally relate to events that are soon to arrive in the chapter. From this quote, I can predict one of the Boatwrights, most likely May, will be isolated from her sisters, June and August, and will somehow die. May was never fully healed after her twin, April, passed away. She became very sensitive, and began to feel actually pain if she heard about it. She went to multiple doctors, but none knew how to cure it. So in a way, nobody could support May, because they knew nobody else that suffered the same disease that May faced.
ReplyDeleteThere are many ways in which the quote of Chapter 8 applies to the novel, already. April was told by her father that the world isn't fair. “She [April] got deflated about life, I suppose you'd say,” August told Lily on page 97. Her father didn't support her by encouraging her to change the unfairness in the world. He was too direct, and April didn't take it easily. She isolated herself from her family, and suffered from major depressions. In the end, she had enough, and committed suicide. Even though she had a family that provided her with companionship, they didn't supply her with support that she needed. If someone had told her that the world isn't always going to be unfair, maybe that would have been enough support for her to continue living.