The Bees by Dan Chaon

http://danchaon.com/biography/

This is the official website of Dan Chaon. This would help someone understand the type of work that the author does. It will help a reader discover the kind of writer that Dan Chaon is.

www.nativeremedies.com/ailment/overcoming-fears-info.html

Fear is something that comes up very frequently in this story. It is more or less one of the themes. Looking at this website cold help you understand where fear comes from. Everyone has fear some point in time, but do we know where it comes from? How we get the feeling of fear? This could better explain fear to us.

psychcentral.com/disorders/sx37.htm

This website has information about the symptoms of paranoia. The reason that this website would help a reader under stand The Bees is because Gene acts weird in the story. He will space out at random moments. He also woke up naked on his living room floor and had no idea how he had gotten there.

www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/157163.php

This website is about alcoholism. From the flashbacks in the story, we know that Gene is a alcoholic. Everyone has an idea about what an alcoholic is. Usually it is just someone that drinks, A LOT.  This website give the medical definition of what an alcoholic is and what alcholism is.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=141164708

This website is about brain maturity. The reason that this website would help a reader better understand the story is because when Gene was 19 he got a girl pregnant and when their son, DJ, was five he left his family. I believe the that a big part of the reason was because he wasn't mature enough to have a family and he felt that too. Some of the maturity was in his brain. His brain was not mature enough to handle with everything that was going on, and this website could explain how mature his brain was.

http://sonswithoutfathers.wordpress.com/

This is another blog about sons without fathers. It could give us a look at what DJ must of felt like when Gene left the family. When parents leave their family, it must take a big toll on the kids. They have no idea where one of their parents went and they don't kow why. When they are older, they will probably feel like it is all their fault that their parent left the family and it could bring depression and all sorts of things for the kids.

http://www.changecompanies.net/trauma-in-life.php

This website has to do with life changing trauma. This webiste would help with better understanding the story because when Gene's son screams throughout the night, the doctor asks if he has gone through anything that could traumatize him. Both parents say that everything is fine at the home and they couldn't think of anything that would do that. But it gets to Gene and that's when we learn about his ex-wife and son. It could help us understand better what he is going through.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002486/

This website is about teenage depression. The only teenager that we know in this story is DJ. Gene doesn't talk about him as a teenager. He talks about him as a little boy. At the time the story takes place though, DJ would be 15. He could be going through depression from when his father left, so this way we could learn how DJ thinks and acts if he really is going through depression.

http://www.aa.org/subpage.cfm?page=287

This website is a website about Alcoholics Anonymous: Frequently asked questions. This could help us understand Gene a little better. He went to AA meetings to get sober and brings up thinking about going to them again even though he hasn't drank in a few years. This will give us an insite to Gene's mind.

http://www.child.net/articles/marriage/

This website is about teenage marriage. Gene got married to a girl that he got pregnant at 19. The only reason that they got married was because she was pregnant. This could help us understand the story because it explains the responsibility of being in a marriage as a teenager and it would explain what a responsibility it was for Gene and his ex-wive.