The Secret Life of Bees
"I'd been kneeling on grits since I was six, but still never got used to that powdered-glass feeling beneath my skin./and lowered myself to the floor, determined not to cry, but the sting was already gathering in my eyes." (Secret Life of Bees. Kidd. 23)
"She [Rosaleen] looked down at my knees and stopped sweeping. They were swollen with hundreds of red welts, pinprick bruises that would grow into a blue stubble across my skin./ My knees had been tortured like this enough times in my life that I'd stopped thinking of it as out of the ordinary; it was just something you had to put up with from time to time, like the common cold." (Kidd. 24)
... The highlighted part above the photo is what I believe to have been one of the incidents to motivate Lily to run away for a better life. She made the decision to get Rosaleen and herself out of this nightmare. Once again this is one character motivating the other one to do something. After a little time ("Little by little one travels far- J.R.R Tolkien) she realized the way T-Ray treated her wasn't normal "like the common cold"...
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