1. Secret Life Of Bees Meet the cast!

2. Lily Lily Owens is a white girl who has a very unloving father. She grew up on a peach farm in Sylvan. Lily’s mother passed when she was four years old Lily searched for love and a mother figure in lots of different people

3. T. Ray Lily’s father who was an aggressive war vet who focused solemnly on himself and his peach farm He had cruel punishments and wasn’t quite sure how to show his daughter the love she needed

4. Rosaleen Rosaleen is Lily’s African American fill in mother She cooks, cleans, and takes care of Lily Rosaleen isn’t very educated She ran with Lily because was in trouble with the law over a confrontation with white men

5. August The colored woman who makes the honey that lead Lily to Tiburon SC She used to be the housekeeper for Lily’s mother when she was a little girl August told Lily the things she needed to know about her mother and took her in August was a big woman with a big heart

6. May May Boatwright is one of August’s sister May had a mental illness that caused her to feel the weight of the world and when someone else was hurting or grieving so was she May later committed suicide after being pushed past her limits

7. June June was the least accepting of Lily of the Boatwright sisters She didn’t let people in as easily She was afraid of marriage until May’s suicide note

8. Zachary Taylor A young colored boy who had big dreams Worked for August keeping the bee’s and making honey Him and Lily became exceptionally close He faced struggles after being harassed by white men