The obvious answer to this question is that Lily feels a
number of different emotions during the course of the book, related to both the events
that happen to her and her own personal development and changes. You might need to be a
tiny bit more specific. Is there a particular part of the book you are referring
to?
Otherwise, you might find it helpful to focus on the
key transition points in this novel. For example, the anger that Lily feels at the
beginning of the book which causes her to leave her father with Rosaleen is a good
section to look at, as is the part when Lily has her chat with August concerning her
mother. For example, Chapter 12 is a key chapter because we see a shift in Lily's
emotions. Beforehand she is consumed with self-hate and feels that she is completely
unlovable because of her guilt at having murdered her mother. Consider how she describes
herself to August, saying she is "unlovable." However, what August says to her manages
to change her belief about herself:
But you're not unlovable. Even if you did
accidentally kill her, you are still the most dear, most lovable girl I know. Why,
Rosaleen loves you. May loved you. It doesn't take a wizard to see Zach loves you. And
every one of the Daughters loves you. And June, despite her ways, loves you,
too.
What August tells Lily,
both concerning how she is loved and the truth about her mother, changes Lily
emotionally. She moves from hating herself to hating her mother. Key transition points
in the novel are very important to discover to trace the changes in emotions that Lily
experiences, and there are several such moments in the novel.
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