The Lovely Bones
There are two main themes that are continually being presented throughout the novel “The Lovely Bones”, these themes are grief and hope. This essay will analyze how different individuals from the Salmon family cope with the death of a family member and their way of advancing with their lives.
Losing someone close to you is tough, especially if it’s a family member. Abigail Salmon is the mother of Susie that she loses early in the novel. This has affected her actions and way of living her life and even pursuing teenage dreams. Since Susie got late for dinner Abigail still kept her hope up that nothing unusual had happened and that her daughter was in safe hands. Later on she started becoming worried and made phone calls to neighbors …”as my mother made phone calls..” (p 55) which shows us that she is upset. The hope of Susie one day arriving back home started fading away as the days went past and more evidence came through the police indicating Susie being dead.
Going through these tough times Abigail couldn’t show affection to anyone as she had done …show more content…
None reacts alike but they contrast their own personality when grieving where some for example deals with it through actions and others by ignorance. They all have one thing in common, death is unescapable and coping with it is difficult. You get trapped in some sort of darkness full of emotions where you don’t know how to feel or even how to react. Death is something everyone is going to encounter despite wealth or health and by grieving you advance in life ready to confront new challenges without your loved one by your side. Alice Sebold made this clear through displaying how people change and that it isn’t always something negative, but that it also could lead to better things in life. This could be developing as a human being and becoming less fragile to these types of
There are two main themes that are continually being presented throughout the novel “The Lovely Bones”, these themes are grief and hope. This essay will analyze how different individuals from the Salmon family cope with the death of a family member and their way of advancing with their lives.
Losing someone close to you is tough, especially if it’s a family member. Abigail Salmon is the mother of Susie that she loses early in the novel. This has affected her actions and way of living her life and even pursuing teenage dreams. Since Susie got late for dinner Abigail still kept her hope up that nothing unusual had happened and that her daughter was in safe hands. Later on she started becoming worried and made phone calls to neighbors …”as my mother made phone calls..” (p 55) which shows us that she is upset. The hope of Susie one day arriving back home started fading away as the days went past and more evidence came through the police indicating Susie being dead.
Going through these tough times Abigail couldn’t show affection to anyone as she had done …show more content…
None reacts alike but they contrast their own personality when grieving where some for example deals with it through actions and others by ignorance. They all have one thing in common, death is unescapable and coping with it is difficult. You get trapped in some sort of darkness full of emotions where you don’t know how to feel or even how to react. Death is something everyone is going to encounter despite wealth or health and by grieving you advance in life ready to confront new challenges without your loved one by your side. Alice Sebold made this clear through displaying how people change and that it isn’t always something negative, but that it also could lead to better things in life. This could be developing as a human being and becoming less fragile to these types of