Chapter+8

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**Chapter 8 Period 2**
Page 136-146 At the beginning, it talks about each person in the house has a special month, like August has August. During this "special month" the person gets to do one thing they enjoy throughout the whole month. Lily, and August start peeling Black Madonna lables, for the honey. Lily starts to wonder where she would be if she didn't see the lable in the store that day. August, and Lily are making conversation as they peel the honey labels, and Lily starts to see the simlarity between August and her own feelings. Eventually, it leads into August reminiscing on her childhood, and Lily seems to get jealous, and thinks to herself how much she would want to have such good memories, like August. Lily wants to tell August how much she has in common with her, and even that she loves her. August starts to tell the origin of the Lady in Chains statue. It belonged to their, April, May, June, August's, grandmom, "Big Mama", as they called her. When she died, it was passed to their mother, and she would spend hours talking to the statue as if it was a real person. Their father disapproved of course, and wanted to get rid of the statue, but their mother threatened to leave if he did. The land, and the house, all belonged to Big Mama, and is where their mother grew up, Big Mama is the one who taught August all about bees and about bee-keeping, and that's where her love for bees started to grow. Big Mama was the first bee keeper in the town, and she was one of the best. August then talks about how her mother lived in Richmond, and met their father their, and when Big Mama died, August could not wait to get back to grandmother's house to start bee keeping. Especially since, all the land and the house was left to the sister's, from their grandmom. The mystery starts to unravel about why none of the sisters are married, especially August, she tells about how she was in love once, but her love for freedom overcomed the love she had. You also learn that the house is pink because it made May happy, even though August thought it was kind of tacky. By: Meghan Theisen

Pages 146-155 August explains to Lily why the house is pink and why the hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters. Then she describes to Lily all the different roles each bee has to keep the hive alive. When August opens a hive the bees swarm around them. She tells Lily not to make sudden actions and that the bees are only telling them that they have their eyes on them. Lily embraces them and is mentally telling them she loves them but in 32 different ways. She loses her surroundings and has a nasty jolt back to her past as she remembers the real life she left. At lunch May served okra and pork chops. This is a little celebration because May has not gone to her wall for five days after June and Neils conflict. Also during lunch people seem a bit disturbed about Jack Palance coming to Tiburon. Jack is a movie star and because he is one they wonder why Tiburon. By: John Stalker

Pages 155-164 Zach comes into the boatwright's house and has some big nws that a famous actor named, Jack Palance, is comeing into town and bringing a black woman with him to go and see a movie. August asks him if any people are upset with this and he tells her that a couple of white men were talking about "standing gaurd" at the theater. Thinking quickly August sends May to get some tomatoes so she doesn't get upset by this news. After lunch Zach gets ready to leave for a drop off for one of the honey customers, when Lily asks if she can go with him, August at first rejects the idea because she wants to have a talk with Lily but soon allows her to go. Zach and Lily arrive at the Law Attorney Office and Zach greets the secretary and she gives him the money for the previous shipment. Soon later a man named, Mr. Forrest, comes out and greets Zach and Lily. Mr. Forrest tells Zach that he has something for him and they go to the back room. While they are in the back room lilly organizes the honey jars. When she finishes with that, Lily takes the phone and calls her father. While on the phone the first words she hears is T-Ray answering the phone not knowing who was calling, once he found out it was Lily the first words to come out of his mouth are, "Lily, where the hell are you?". As you can tell T-Ray was very upset with her, Lily and T-ray basically argued the whole time while on the phone and during th conversation Lily get so fed up with him that she hangs up. After hanging up the phone Lily wrote a letter that she wanted to send to T-Ray. In this letter she tells him how bad of a father he is, how she had learned about about acrosstict poems in school and how she wrote one for him. When the letter was complete Lily tore it up into little pieces and threw it away. Shortly after, Zach and Mr. Forrest returned and Zach had a book that Mr. Forrest gave to him for his new collection of lawyer books. That night, Lily enters the house to use the bathroom, on her way back out to the honey house she stops and notices how much different the Lady of Chains looks in the dark. Something overcomes Lily and makes her place her hand on her chest, then on the heart of Our Lady of Chains, and prays for forgiveness. By: Pat Vandergeest

~Chapter 8, Period 6/7~

Pages 136-146 The first part of the chapter discusses how when August, June, May, and April they had their own special months. Whenever it was one of the names of the girl's month that sister would be excused of chores, she could stay up later, and she could eat whatever her heart's desired. The August and Lily go to work by putting labels on the honey jars. While working Lily learns about how August came about the Black Madonna picture on the honey jar. While discussing what Lily loved she was able to find out that August and her had a few things in common. Lily also learns the reason why August putst the picture on the honey jar. Since Lily is being curious she also asks August about the black Mary statue and how she got it. August tells Lily that the statue has always been in her family for generations. We also find out that August's grandmother, Big Mama, taught August how to keep bees. After we learn that August decided that she never wanted to get married because of how it's set up but she has been in love. ~Shannon Novitski~

pages 146-156 This part starts with Lily and august talking, lily was asking her questions, and they got on the topic of marriage. Lily asked if she had ever been almost married, and august said no she said marriage was not the life for her, she loved her freedom more then anything else,Lily started to think would married like be the same as life with T-Ray waiting on her husband hand and foot like she did her father? They talked about the color of the house and how may wanted it to be that color because it made her want to dance. They said that people know what matters but they don't choose it. They were listening to the bees hum while cooling down their hive and how they thought the noise was so beautiful and clear. August said bees have a secret live that no one knows about. lily loved the idea of bees having a secret life, just like she was having now. they were taking off the cover of the bee hive and lily was swarmed by bees the whole time in her head she was saying i love you i love you i love you, and she closed her eyes and started to go to a nice place i guess in her mind, then she felt a pain and doubled over. they all went inside and talked about a movie star being in tiburon and how it was stupid for him to be there, he was there to find a colored woman for his movie. lily then asked for permission to go to a law office with zach so they would have some alone time.

by: Brooke Spence

156-164 During this section Lily went with Zach to Mr. Forrest's office to pick up the honey money and deliver honey. When they got there Mr. Forrest's secretary left and Zach and Mr. Forrest's went into the back so Zach could receive a surprise from Mr. Forrest. Lily decided to stay in the waiting area and attempted to stack the bottles of honey, after that Lily looked at the pictures on the wall. Before Zach came back Lily sat at the secretary's desk and used the phone to call T-Ray. While T-Ray was yelling at her Lily attempted to ask T-Ray if he knew her favorite color. After she had enough of T-Ray, Lily hung up the phone. Zach came out showed Lily the gift from Mr. Forrest, which was a book on Law. After they returned to the Boatwright house Lily wrote a letter to T-Ray that helped her vent her feeling. She then tore is up. Late that night she went to the bathroom, on the way back she was surprised by a noise. Which was the candle going out by the "Our Lady of Chains" statue. She then went and touched her heart while asking for forgiveness.

by: Damian Owen