The central theme in The Death of Bees is family secrets. Marnie and Nelly have to keep a secret about their parents being dead from the outside world. Throughout the book, the secret is tougher to keep it a secret because their neighbor and people in the town keep asking Marnie and Nelly where are your parents. The family secret brings Marnie and Nelly closer and they soon realize that they only have each other. In the beginning of the book, Marnie and Nelly discovered that both of their parents are dead in their house. They don't want to tell the police so they wont have to go to the orphanage. Instead they burry them in their backyard. They don't want anyone to know where there parents are really are and to keep it a secret they tell people that they don't know where their parents are.

The article talks about the summary and synopsis of The Death of Bees. It also mentions the main characters that are in the book and what they are like and the personalities they have.  The Death of Bees link