When a reader views texts in perspective, he or she draws on the words, characters and their actions while viewing the content personally. Drawing on religious motifs and ideas, Alice Sebold presents a remarkable, complex, and comforting vision of heaven, as the platform from which Susie Salmon was raped and murdered; by a neighbor at the age of fourteen. Heaven indeed has many “mansions,” one of which is the “wide wide Heaven,” which can provide one’s every desire. The powerful Deity also grants omniscience to the narrator. The word Susie’s grandfather has for the dominant quality of this heaven is “comfort,” and oddly comforting, indeed, is Alice Sebold’s novel because the text postulates a vision of heaven. The book has an “intake” level
