Luckily, she isn't stuck with the desires she comes to heaven with. She grows and changes, and her heaven adapts. Franny in a Field of Dreams moment explains, "All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why […] it will come" 2. She learns that if she stops worrying about her family, about why Harvey killed her, and about stopping him from killing others she can go to a different kind of heaven.
Eventually, Susie makes a transition to "wide wide Heaven" Epilogue. This heaven seems to be a place where imagination, chilling out, and having fun are perfected. Susie says, It's about flathead nails and the soft down of new leaves and wild roller coaster rides and escaped marbles that fall then hang then take you somewhere you could never have imagined in your small heaven dreams.
According to her cosmology, your heaven might also match your religious beliefs. Hers includes Evensong, Anglican evening prayer, and the people around her share her wish to perform it. Susie never discusses what happens to Mr. Harvey when he dies. She can see everybody on Earth, but she can't see them in the afterworld unless they are with her in her heaven.
What do you think? Will Harvey go to a place where his desires are fulfilled, like Susie's are? And what are his desires? Will he still want to rape and kill, or does he have deeper desires, like having love, a family, not wanting to hurt others? Will he desire punishment for his crimes on Earth? Should he receive punishment for his crimes on Earth?
Harvey escape the hell of the mind in the afterlife? Should we be taking advice from Satan? Hours before I died, my mother hung on the refrigerator a picture that Buckley had drawn. In the drawing a thick blue line separated the air from the ground. It takes great effort on Susie's part to pass from the afterworld through the Inbetween, to the Earth, though it's easy to pass back.
Sometimes like when she's riding trains it's not entirely clear whether Susie is just watching or actually absent from the afterworld and present on Earth in ghostly essence. There's some indication that she's simply gotten better at passing through the Inbetween to Earth. In Peter Jackson's film adaptation, The Inbetween is the name of the heaven Susie goes to when she first dies.
Critics haven't been all that enthusiastic about the film. They claim that Jackson's the Inbetween is too darn fluffy and pretty.
Since Shmoop is a pillar of neutrality on such issues, we leave it to you to decide. The sinkhole is where Mr. Harvey dumps Susie's body parts, locked inside a heavy safe.
Ironic use of a safe, isn't it? When Ray, Ruth, and Harvey all converge there for a moment in , Susie gets really excited. So excited, she manages to borrow Ruth's body so she can make love to Ray in Hal Heckler's nearby bike shop.
According to Susie's dad, the sinkhole an opening in the earth is a result of the collapse of an underground mine. The sinkhole constantly swallows and regurgitates the stuff that's been dumped in it. When the players converge in that area, the sinkhole is about to be covered over, and Susie's body along with it. No wonder Susie gets so excited.
The sinkhole also seems kind of analogous to Mr. The sinkhole is a rupture in the earth, which can be dangerous, swallow things up and hold them underground. Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones has several themes that include love, loss, grief, unity, and death. Yet, out of all of those themes the one that begins and closes the story is the theme of mortality. George Harvey is eventually suspected of being a serial killer , which he is, but he is never caught or punished for the crime.
There was never enough definitive proof to arrest him. At the end of the novel, Susie moves on into a larger part of heaven but she is still able to watch events down on earth. The conflict of the novel is between the protagonist and the forces that throw obstacles in her way. It seems that it is the conflict between the heaven where Susie lives and the life on Earth she once had. The most obvious representative of the antagonistic forces is the girl's killer, Mr.
The Lovely Bones is not based on a single true story , but the rapist, George Harvey, is a composite based on many real -life serial rapists and killers. Additionally, the author, Alice Sebold, was once raped in a tunnel where she learned that another victim had been raped and dismembered. Lindsey, Susie's little sister , is thirteen when Susie dies.
She is the living hero of the story Susie is watching and telling. Her story begins in winter in chaos, and ends in spring in reunion, marriage, and even a cute little bambino.
The point of view with in the novel The Lovely Bones is first person. Words such as I, my, and we are present within the novel. Susie Salmon is the narrator and is telling the story about her life in heaven and her family on Earth. The climax of a plot is the major turning point that allows the protagonist to resolve the conflict.
This moment occurs when Susie has her greatest wish fulfilled: she makes love with Ray Singh through the miracle of entering Ruth's body.
The women on the widow's walk of Susie's house in Heaven - They symbolize Harvey's victims. The bloody twig - It symbolizes Susie's belief that rescue is always possible. The amber necklace - This represents George Harvey's mother who was forced out of his father's car, left in the desert, and never seen again.
The title of the novel has thematic significance pertaining to the theme of grief. Printable Notes. Digital Library. Study Guides. Study Smart. Parents Tips. College Planning. Test Prep. Fun Zone. How to Cite.
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