Little Bee was definitely a window storytelling and not a mirror. Despite Little Bee’s relatability with new things and thought process similar to anyone our age, one of the points of the book was showing that she had a different life and different experiences, which shaped her. One iconic moment in the book was when Little Bee is talking to Charlie after he had a raging fit at the daycare, and she talks to him in a corner while the other kids, while interested more in charlie, are being read a story.

Charlie thus far had bottled up all of his emotions on his father’s death, and was pushed over the edge by something the other kids’ did. The only other time in the book he showed explicit emotion towards his father’s death was at his father’s funeral. Charlie had a hard time processing his father’s death, because he hadn’t experienced the death of another before. He doesn’t understand at the time …show more content…
Other than “in heaven” which is the way that Charlie understands it.
She explains heaven to charlie as like the nursery here or a detention center. Although he wants to leave, they cannot. The most important part is that she says that his daddy is like her daddy, and that they are both dead. The conversation keeps going until charlie asks why she isn’t sad, because she has so clearly experienced much more than him. She explains why charlie shouldn’t be sad, because he is the luckiest boy in the world. That he has a mother who loves him, and so he runs off to his mother. This whole conversation put two characters whose world’s were windows to the other, and had them talk about it. It was the most constructive conversation in the book for developing their characters, because not only does it show that Bee has moved on, but that charlie is moving on too. That his father isn’t coming back, and that others understand. It is a window for a reader, in all