August Boatwright Quotes

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In Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, The Secret Life of Bees, August Boatwright plays an extremely important role. After meeting Lily, she becomes one of her confidantes. She also helps by teaching and providing for her.
Foremost, August is a teacher for Lily. She first teaches her about beekeeping in chapter 5, when she tells her “how to run a steam-heated knife along the super, slicing the wax cap off the combs” and “how to load them just so into the spinner.” She continues to teach her about beekeeping all the way up to the 10th chapter. August also teaches Lily about her mother, filling in the gaps on information she wanted to know. She told her about Deborah, her mom, as a child, for August was her Deborah’s maid, about how Deborah got married to
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