The Secret Life of Bees

Lily makes an allusion on page 2. What does she allude to and why?

From the Book, "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

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She makes an allusion to the Bible. To the narrator, bees were a revelation akin to the "Angel Gabriel appearing to the Virgin Mary".

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