Personal Narrative: A Lovely Bones

Family is a very important part of my life. Family was very important to Susie too. Susie was the oldest of her siblings; she had a younger sister, Lindsey, and a younger brother, Buckley. Susie’s family went through a massive tragedy when they lost her. All families are different in almost every way. Things tend to change after they go through a tragedy together. Some families are close and stay close. Some families are close, but grow apart. Some families are not close but they grow close. Their mother had an affair and left, “They had been deeply, separately, wholly in love - apart from her children my mother could reclaim this love, but with them she began to drift. It was my father who grew toward us as the years went by; it was my mother …show more content…
Some have a long happy life, while others have a short painful one. Everyone, obviously, lives a different life. Susie’s was short and happy. My mom and brothers were also short and happy. In my 16 years I have had two close to death incidents. One when I was a newborn infant and another one when I was only 12 years old. While Susie was in her heaven she tells her guardian “ “People grow up by living” I said to Franny ‘I want to live.”.“ She learned that you need to live a full life after she dies. She is almost miserable in her heaven. Alot of people take their lives for granted . Especially in our country. The United States is a spoiled country. We are too addicted to social media and fast food restaurants to notice that not everyone has stuff handed to them. Most Americans do not live the life they want, they just go through life just like the next guy. And in the end they realize that it 's too late to go back and live like they should have. If our country stepped up and be more careful who we trust than incidents like Susie’s would not be so popular. This country may not be the most dangerous, but it sure is not the safest