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T. Ray Owens
The youngest and strangest of the Boatwright sisters, May is an odd, mentally disturbed woman who becomes deeply depressed whenever anything tragic happens to anyone. Whenever a tragedy occurs, May writes it down on a piece of paper and slips the paper into a stone wall near her house. In addition to being enormously sensitive, May is highly observant. In the end, she commits suicide by drowning herself in a nearby stream, unable to cope with Zach’s arrest and imprisonment. Her suicide could be said to represent the psychological toll that racism has taken on the black community in America.
May Boatwright Quotes in The Secret Life of Bees
The The Secret Life of Bees quotes below are all either spoken by May Boatwright or refer to May Boatwright. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4
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I walked the length of the fence, and it was the same all the way, hundreds of these bits of paper. I pulled one out and opened it, but the writing was too blurred from rain to make out. I dug another one. Birmingham, Sept 15, four little angels dead.
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May Boatwright Quotes in The Secret Life of Bees
The The Secret Life of Bees quotes below are all either spoken by May Boatwright or refer to May Boatwright. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4
Quotes
I walked the length of the fence, and it was the same all the way, hundreds of these bits of paper. I pulled one out and opened it, but the writing was too blurred from rain to make out. I dug another one. Birmingham, Sept 15, four little angels dead.
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