Cardenas was deeply affected by many books like “Gifted hands”, “Thinking big” both by Ben Carson. She found these meaningful because these stories …show more content…
No child or person has to go through what susie went through. What shocked me the most was it was done by someone she knew personally and considered her friend. The main theme in this novel is the Salmons grief towards their fourteenth year old daughter Susie Salmon who was brutally raped and killed by Mr.Harvey her friendly next door neighbor. Mr.Harvey was a sick person he enjoyed killing things he started off by killing small animals such as birds, he then advances onto dogs and cats and lastly he finishes off with humans. Susie was not the only victim he had killed many women and children before a wide range starting from six to fifty years old. Susie mentions “Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like the flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained” (Susie, pg.186). Susie feels trapped and the incident still keeps replays in her head the way she can relive some of her pain is by telling her family's story that's her way of surviving the grief and pain she went