Lovely Bones Themes

This book is a may be too morbid for your taste at first, but The Lovely Bones does more than use the notion of death as an entirely new channel to reveal the enigmatic beauty of life. Alice Sebold truly made a masterpiece worth recalling long after the last word has been read, leaving the readers with a beautiful reality of how death can become ecstasy in the painfully simple process of letting go. Through its integration of viewpoints from those left behind and one beyond the grave, The Lovely Bones reminds us that death isn’t an entity we should fear or escape from, rather, the people we surround ourselves with. As the story introduces the newest edition to the ‘dearly departed’ Susie Salmon, the story continuously goes back and forth to …show more content…
It wraps up the lies and made-up stories, discussing the real root of evil in all actions and the good intentions that lie in between the lines. The fear of something we’ve never experienced may be rational to the extent of our own understanding, but The Lovely Bones points out that there are much worse things than the inevitable. The individual mysteries embodied within a single person is something so much more frightening, as these can potentially change the course of life. It makes the idea of Heaven more and more riveting, and changes the overall image of humanity in ways truly difficult to explain. In sum, The Lovely Bones seeks to enlighten its readers about the beauty of death that rarely gets attention by revealing the entire potential of Man to shift from one side to the other. Our fear grounded in ignorance applies even more to the hidden information and knowledge we fail to seek or receive than death alone. Surely, the book will bestow upon the reader an impression that one can carry to the grave and