”I look to a day when people will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King Jr. (Reference). In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees written by Sue Monk Kidd, the protagonist of the story, Lily Owens narrates the novel in the first-person, describing events she experiences from her unique perspective and retelling the stories told by others in the same sort of manner. Throughout this novel, Lily witnesses a lot of violence, in the forms of Racism, Physical Abuse, and Emotional Harm towards other people in the novel, as well as herself. Firstly, when Lily and Rosaleen walk through the small town of Sylvan, Rosaleen gets an irrational amount of racist remarks from the towns three racist…