Prompt:
The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if
she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her
absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs
of queenlessness. Man and Insect (Ch. 1)
Response Requirement:
--In what ways is this quote relevant to the first chapter? Analyze it
metaphorically and include details from the text to support your
analysis.
The quote in the beginning of chapter one, "The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness." relates to the first chapter because Lily claims that it is obvisious that she is motherless. She claims that she can never get her hair right, for example, Lily says "You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair. My hair was constantly going off in eleven wrong directions." In these two quotes she means that she can never do her hair quite right and she doesn't have a mother to help her with it. Most girls have mothers who help with their hair and she does not. Her hair never turns out the way she wants it to. Kind of like a bees nest. Without the queen bee the others worker bees swarm out of control and don't produce honey like they are suppose to.
ReplyDeleteThe quote “The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness.” from Man and Insect bears awful resemblance to Lily and her life in the first chapter in this book. In this case, the “queen” is Lily’s late mother, who died when Lily was four years old. Since she’s been gone, both Lily and T-Ray have shown signs of “queenlessness”. Lily says that T-Ray, who is her guardian, isn’t her parent “My daddy- who I called T-Ray because ‘daddy’ never fit him- …” T-Ray also shows signs of loss and denial. When Lily recalls the event, T-Ray says, “Goddamn it, you were four years old! You don’t know what you remember.” These two bees definitely are affected by the death of their queen.
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ReplyDeleteThis quote perfectly echoes the events of the first chapter. "The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness. Man and Insect"(Ch. 1). The queen could be related to Lily's mother. Lily's mother was killed and Lily and T.Ray feel her absence. Lily and T.Ray are like the workers. The "unmistakable signs of queenlessness" could include Lily's appearance, or even the way T.Ray treats Lily. If Lily's mother where still there Lily may dress differently and do her hair differently. T.Ray also would not be as harsh on Lily. I believe Lily's mother would not allow it. For example, when Lily's mother and T.Ray were fighting T.Ray shoved Lily against the wall and yelled at her. In Lily's defense her mother yelled "Leave. Her. Alone." (pg.7)
The quote "The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness." Man and Insect is relavent to the beginning of the story for many reasons. She is one of the many bees that are in the hive, her mother was the queen. Because the queen had to "leave" the nest, T. Ray and Lily are both thrown off course because they were so surprised. Her appearance was not very cared for because she was usually the one to do all her hair. When she was reaching the age of puberty, she had no one to go to really so she had to endure that herself with Rosaleen. This quote in a metaphoric stand point is saying that once the boss of somthing leaves, the followers either rejoice are in total panic.
ReplyDeleteThe queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness. This was the starting quote of chapter one. This quote is relevant to chapter one because in chapter one Lily caught the bees and slowly watched them die, but right before they died she let them go. She let them go because she was thinking of her mother and her mother would have let them go. One of those must have been the queen because when Lily had caught the bees, that night they started going crazy. That was the first sign of queenlessness. However, when Lily went to get her T. Ray to show him they disappeared. They must have spotted the queen bee and have been given directions. Lily was amazed by this.
ReplyDelete"The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness." -Man and Insect (Ch. 1)
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 1, Lily talks a lot about her mother and why she wants to have her back so bad. Why? Because Lily believes that her mother loved her, and the troubles with her father did not start until "the incident", where her mother was killed. In effect, Lily's mother was a "queen bee", and she brought peace and unity to the whoel entire Owens family, or so lily believed. After "the incident", T-Ray began to abuse Lily, and nothing was ever the same again; there was no love, peace, or unity within the Owens family, and Lily hated T-ray.
When Rosaleen goes to jail, Lilly misses her. so she goes to break her out of jail. she is like the queen bee to Lilly, like the mother that she barely remembers. Lilly was queen less.
ReplyDeleteThe queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness -Man and Insect. this quote relates to the chapter because of how the structure is in Lily's family. She is the center of her dad T-Ray and Rosaleen's world. If Rosaleen was missing for a second they would both freak out. "I went out to the orchard last night. T-Ray thinks I met some boy," Lily said. That night, Lily went to the orcharch and didn't tell any one about it. Her father was worried because Lily "the queen" was missing. This is how the quoterelates to the chapter.
ReplyDeleteThis quote is relevant to chapter 1. It says once she was removed, the workers sense their absence. T. ray is basically the worker. Once Lily is missing, her dad can sense her missing. That is how this quote is relevant to the first chapet in the story.
ReplyDeleteThis quote, "The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness" is related to the first chapter. It is related because that is what happened to Lily.
ReplyDeleteThe queen in the quote is Lily's mom in the book, and the worker bees is Lily. When Lily's mom died, she showed a huge difference in how she looked. "You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair." Lily's hair went into thousands of directions ever since she lived with t. Ray only. Everyone's mom would do their child's hair so when you see someone with bad hair, you know they lack a mother.
Another sign is that Lily doesn't go to out. "... he refuses to drive me to town for football games, pep rallies, or Beta House car washes..." T. Ray refuses to drive Lily anywhere so Lily is always at home. If her mom was still her, she might have drove her to those events. When Lily went to Women;s Club last spring, she was separated because she didn't have a mom, grandmother, or even an aunt. She needed one of those so they could present her a white rose. After that, she went home and cried. Lily is showing signs of change in her appearance and life since her 'queen' left. In conclusion, the quote is relevant to the first chapter.
The quote "The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness. Man and Insect (Ch. 1)" realates very nicely to chapter 1. It relates because metaphorically speaking Deborah is the queen bee and she has died, so T.Ray and Lilly feel queenlessness which is why you could say they have family issues. I think if Deborah wasn't dead, there wouldn't be queenlessness in the house.
ReplyDeleteThis quote is relevant to the first chapter because Lily loses her mother. Once her mother dies she feels unloved and has many physical punishments for what T. Ray does not approve of. Living without her mother makes her feel abandoned. Lily had do go through lack of privileges like reading and free time, all to be filled in with extra work and punishment. Life would go on like this until she would have Rosaleen to fill a few of the spaces.
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ReplyDelete“The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness,” Man and Insect. This quote is very relevant to the first chapter of the book in a severe way. It shows how Lily shows signs of “queenlessness” without her mother there to help guide her threw some of life’s greatest and confusing moments for a girl. All she had was a “stand-in mother” who was Rosaleen. I shouldn’t say it like that, Lily is very lucky to have Rosaleen to help her through things she needs a woman for. Like when she got the stain on her panties, how she had only Rosaleen to share the “flower” with. At least she has Rosaleen instead of just T. Ray though; he would have even cared or known what to do about anyway.
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Language Arts, Period 7
March 19, 2011
Option #8 Ch. 1
This quote about the queen bee is relevant to the first chapter because the queen bee is a metaphor for Lily’s mother. In the first chapter, I found out that Lily’s mother has died and is no longer in Lily’s and T. Ray’s life. In other words, the queen bee (the mother) has been removed from the hive (the family). When the mother was alive, the three of them were a nice family (unified). But, now that she is gone (removed from the hive) they miss her terribly. Lily especially talks about her mother to herself and is lonely without her. Like the beehive showing “queenlessness” (mother less) Lily and T. Ray struggle with their relationship because there is no mother that brings them together. Also, not having a mother in the house was very hard for a teenage girl. T. Ray did not care about what was important to Lily at her age. If the queen was still in the hive, she might have been more involved with her teenage bee. T. Ray did not care about what Lily was interested in. For example, on page 8 T. Ray did not like slumber parties, sock hops, football games, pep rallies, or girl’s clothing. So, it was very hard for Lily to learn girlish things without her mother in the house.
The quote "The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the communtiy; If she is removed from the hive, the workers quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show remarkable signs of queenlessness" is relevant to chapter one because Lily is missing her "queen bee" or mom. Lilys life is completly affected by the loss of her mother. Acording to Lily her hair and appearence reflects the absence of her mother. She also has no one to help her get through certain situations. Lily longs for a powerful mother-figure or queen bee to help her through life.
ReplyDeleteThis quote is relevant to the chapter because it illustrates Lily's life at home without her mother, who kept the family together. Her mother was the queen and organized T. Ray's and Lily's otherwise unorganized lives, by doing things such as nicely luring bugs out of the house. Once she died, T. Ray couldn't control the house, and things quickly fell apart, with abuse and neglect for Lily. It became very apparent, especially with Lily's appearance, and the book says "you can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair." Every part of Lily's life seemed to fall apart. Rosaleen attempted to give Lily some care but simply used Lily as a "pet guinea pig", not having any real experience as a mother.
ReplyDelete"The queen, for her part,is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness." - Man and Insect
ReplyDeleteThis quote is relevant to chapter 1, because the queen bee is like Lily's mom, the community is like their home, and the workers are like Lily and her 'daddy'. Once Lily's mother died, it was like the queen bee being removed from the hive. Then Lily and her father were experiencing queenlessness. For example, they had to hire a nanny, because T. Ray probably didn't know how to take care of his daughter. Also, Lily didn't have anyone that showed her the love she needs as a kid. Another example is that Lily isn't keeping up with her personal hygiene, and she is lost with fashion and all the girly things she needs to learn, because she doesn't have her mother to guide her.
Another example of this quote metaphorically is that the queen bee is the general of an army, and the community is the battle field. The workers are the army soldiers. If the general dies, chaos will come among the army, because no one is there to give them instruction and guide them. The mission will fall apart, and they will eventually fall apart and give up hope.
The quote is related to the first chapter because it relates to Lily's life. She is motherless just like the workers are queenless. Since she is motherless, she appears motherless. Her hair is a mess and she does not have the latest faishion of clothes. T. Ray also won't buy her bristle rollers so she had to use Welch's grape juice cans as rollers. The bees are the same way without their queen. It is clearly visible that they do not have a queen.
ReplyDeleteThe quote "the queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, theyshow unmistkable signs of queenlessness." relates very greatly to the book the secret life bee's very greatly. For example Lily ran away,the queen Bee. Her father was probably very upset and felt extremly lonely and upset.
ReplyDelete"The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness. Man and Insect" is related to the text because of how Lily's mother died. She lost her mother and a big part of her life is now missing, a part that most girls her age all have. Just like a hive needs a queen, a girl needs a loving mother to understand her and care for her. On page 3, Lily says "You can tell which girls lack a mother by the look of their hair", which is the signs of "unmistakable queenlessness.
ReplyDeleteThe queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness. Man and Insect (Ch. 1) This quote relates to chapter one in the way that Lily has no mother. Lily's mother was removed from her and it shows. She has home made clothes, unruly hair, and a lack of refined etiquette. Also T-Ray mistreats her, that would not happen if her mother were with her. Her house is not a happy place just as a hive without a queen would be.
ReplyDelete“The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness.” This quote fits in chapter one because the first chapter Lily talks about her mom. The author is comparing a queen bee to Lily’s mom, Deborah. The worker bees are being compared to T. Ray and Lily, because they are unhappy that Deborah is not with them anymore.
ReplyDeleteLily's mom died at a young age, which changed Lily's life forever. Lily's mom not being there for Lily made everything different, like in the quote, when the queen be isn't there people will notice from the changes, like how T-Ray is taking over.
ReplyDeleteThis quote is relevant to chapter 1 because when it says, "when the queen is removed from the hive, the workers quickly notice her absence." refers to when ever Lily sneaks out of T-Ray's house, he quickly senses she is gone. Like when Lily went out in the middle of the night to look at her mom's gloves and pictures, T-Ray comes out so quick to get her.
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