Chapter+13

=Period 2= =Pages 257-263= Lily was in the honey house crying. She's trying to go to sleep but she can't with everything August was telling her on her mind. She gets out of her bed and decides that she wants to talk to the Mary. When she got to the Mary she sat on the floor in front of her. She hears a singsong voice outside, which makes her think about the times she woke up in the middle of the night and heard. She started to get so angry. She picked up one of the honey jars in the room and threw it at the wall and kept throwing them. She just started throwing everything. After all of that she became tired and went to sleep. When she woke up, she seen that Rosaleen was all up in her face. Rosaleen screamed "Lily!" and asks her what happened. Lily tells Rosaleen that she threw jars. Rosaleen seen that Lily was bleeding so she took her to the bathroom to get cleaned up so she wouldn't get infected. They sit done in the bathroom and start to talk. Lily finds out that Rosaleen knew that her mother left her. Lily gets mad and asks Rosaleen why she didn't tell her.

By: Jalen Pinnock

=Pages 264-270= After lily found out what August had known all of this time that lily spending there. Whenever lily would think about her mother she felt like there was a great madness that came over her. "//Oh, yeah, that's right, I've got a little girl at home. Gee, maybe I'll go back and get her now"// that's what lily thinks that her mother did, even though August had said to her that's not what her mother intended. Lily tries to get August to tell Zach how she ran away and to tell him about her mother, August tells Lily to tell him herself, but the usual lily chickens out and august agrees to do it first chance she gets. By:Terrance Bender

=Pages 271-276= After the ceremony, Lily feels foolish and unworthy as August brings Lily a box of her mother's belongings in a gold and white stripped hat box. Lily and August open the box together to first find a pocket mirror, then a comb with Deborah's hair still in it, followed by a gold pin that took the shape of a whale, and a book of poetry. The Final item in the box was a picture of her mother feeding Lily when she was a baby and her mother as a young woman. Looking at the picture, Lily got emotional and comes to realize that maybe her mother did love her after all, although in a different way than Lily originally imagined.

By:Brendan McKee

=__Pages 257 - 263__= Lily was in the honey house and was still so frustrated from what August had told her. She decided to go to talk to the statue for guidance but she knew that the statue wouldn't help. When she was done talking to Mary she saw the honey jars that were on the work bench and since she was still so angry she picked each one of them up and through it around the room. She also through tin bucket. When she was done throwing everything she realized she was bleeding, which was from glass. She finally fell asleep in front of Mary and in the morning she was woken up by Rosaleen. She was asking Lily what happened to the room and she was surprised that Lily did it. She took Lily into the pink house to clean her arm and revealed to Lily that she kind of knew that her mother left her. Lily got upset with Rosaleen for not telling her she knew. -Megan Collins

=__**Pages 264-270**__= Lily and Rosaleen are still discussing information about Lily's mother. It was the last day of Mary Day and they were having a ceremony to celebrate the Assumption of Mary. Lily tells August she wants her to tell Zach everything they discussed before: the whole truth about Lily, Rosaleen, and Lily's mother. At the ceremony, they begin to pour honey all over the clean statue of Our Lady and Lily doesn'y seem to understand why. They explain to her that it is a ritual ever since the churches used to do it in a way to honor the special statue (preserving). -Elisa Vetrano

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Lily went to the Honey House to lay down and try not to think. She was thinking to herself, the more I try not to think, the more I think. Lily goes on wondering what one miracle from the bible would you like to happen to you, and came to the conclusion she would like to be able to rise from the dead, since "A big part of me still felt dead as a doornail." August comes in with a gold and white striped hatbox, which Lily thinks may be a straw hat, but it is a round box with some of Lily's mothers belongings. Lily wants August to tell her what is in there, but August tells her that August would like to open it together. Lily's mothers pocket mirror, a hair brush, a gold pin that was shaped like a whale with a tiny black eye and a spout of rhinestone water coming from it's blowhole, a Black poetry book and a small picture of Lily and her mother when Lily was a little girl. -Jamie Maypole