She is clothed with strength and dignity,
and she laughs without fear of the future.
Proverbs 31:25 New Living Translation (NLT)
My name is Tawny Brianna Turner — probably the only tawny you might ever come across. As seen in the photo above taken at my grandparents home, I come from a small border town in the valley of Texas called Brownsville, where I spent the first twelve years of my life. There’s never a dull moment whether it be Christmas feast failures or my younger cousin and my grandma keeping the whole house awake with their tumultuous laughter in the late hours of the night as they make jokes about each other. You know what they say—you don’t get to choose your family you just get stuck with them, but I’d say God picked the perfect pact when he put my family together.
Now 5 years later, I sit in my AP English IV class officially halfway through my senior year of high school—WOW! It still hasn’t officially sank in or maybe I don’t want it to sink in. I greatly look forward to the independence and abundance of choices that I will get to make to determine what I want my future to look like. On the other hand, what comes with that is the two words I as a teenager hate the most, “ADULTING” and “RESPONSIBILITIES”, but that’s a topic for a later post.
In these upcoming blogs I plan to be critically analyzing the novel, The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd in different ways. Some of these ways will include: poetry reflection, symbol/motif reflection, and non-fiction synthesis reflection that all relate to this novel. As well as a few other in depth dissections of the authors writing choices to reveal the secrets within Kidds’ award winning, coming of age novel.
Kidd, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees. Penguin Books, 2013.
The Secrets Within 