Sue M. Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees explains a young girl loaning for stability in a difficult habitat. In the beginning of the novel, Kidd uses imagery to help visualize the story. The author describes a swarm of bees: “During the day I heard them tunneling through the walls of my bedroom.” The author helps make the narrator’s life more realistic, continuing to describe the swarm: “They lapped around my body, making me the perfect center of a whirlwind cloud.” Besides the imagery of bees the writer also focuses on the narrator’s life: “That night I lay in bed and thought about dying and going to be with my mother in paradise.” Overall the author uses a more detailed type of imagery in The Secret Life of Bees.