In this quote the emphasizing, Lily’s perception of her mother to her telling her “your jar is open” Monk Kidd suggests that if Lily were to follow where this honey takes her, she could get a world full of opportunity. Lily clearly feels a distinct connection to the honey jar because of her mother. In the beginning, honey represents guidance that Lily’s mother was never able to give her because of her passing when Lily was a little girl. With this, Lily can’t ignore the fact that the honey jar company’s logo isn’t fate that it the exact same one, and she is extremely intrigued to know more, “...when I found myself looking at a picture of the Mary...I mean the identical, very same, exact one as my mother’s. She stared at me from the labels of a dozen jars of honey. BLACK MADONNA HONEY, they said”(63). In this interaction between Rosaleen and Lily, it shows how both of them know they have to go and find out more about the Black Madonna honey because Lily has the confidence that it is directly connected to her mother in one way or another. The honey is symbolizing a kind of guidance that mothers give their children. It is almost like