Topic: conflict

I would say the conflict in The Secret Life of Bees is Lily finding memory of her mother. This conflict is an person vs. self conflict. This is because she has to fight with herself to find out what happened the day her mother left and beyond that. She goes through other conflicts that are significant, such as her "father" T.Ray who doesn't want to have anything to do with explaining her mother. The effect of his actions are her running away. The conflict starts when she was four years old and the last time she has any memory of her mother. Lily, Rosaleen, June, August and May are the characters involved in this conflict. In the end its solved with the true story of her mother and Lily finally stands up to T.Ray for herself.