The Journey Of Survival
When someone you love becomes a memory, the memories become your treasure.
She is in the sun, the rain, the wind, she’s in the air you breathe with every breath you take. She sings a song of hope and cheer there’s no more pain, no more fear. You’ll see her in the clouds above, hear her whisper words of love, you’ll be together before long, until then listen for her song. ~Unknown
When one is told about the book “The Lovely Bones” the number one problem people have with the book is that how gruesome, violent, and how hard it was for them to get past the first 3 chapters; the first three chapters pertain to the murder of a young girl named Susie. However, maybe what those people that feel this way need is to take a step back and really analyze the book and the characters in the story because underneath the devastating topic is …show more content…
This novel was her first attempt to turn pain into poetry. She takes this on and instead of making it out to be dark, sad and heart breaking, she tells it with grace and compassion. Seabold avoids the topic of murder itself, infact in her book the girl says nothing of disparagement. Seabold refrains from taking a more grating rout on the murder she remains calm, and dances around the harsh subject; “The end came anyway”. The tone in the book is not that of, sorrowful and grief-stricken, but kind, pleasant, and wistful. Alice’s idea of having the protagonist in the story being the murderer offers no inside view on evil or the guilt he may feel. More importantly, the meat or the best part of the novel is-- the healing process that the narrator’s family has to undergo. At the end of her novel, it seems as if the author should provide closer to the family, however, the novel goes against the majority of the other novels of this type, and the murderer is never
When someone you love becomes a memory, the memories become your treasure.
She is in the sun, the rain, the wind, she’s in the air you breathe with every breath you take. She sings a song of hope and cheer there’s no more pain, no more fear. You’ll see her in the clouds above, hear her whisper words of love, you’ll be together before long, until then listen for her song. ~Unknown
When one is told about the book “The Lovely Bones” the number one problem people have with the book is that how gruesome, violent, and how hard it was for them to get past the first 3 chapters; the first three chapters pertain to the murder of a young girl named Susie. However, maybe what those people that feel this way need is to take a step back and really analyze the book and the characters in the story because underneath the devastating topic is …show more content…
This novel was her first attempt to turn pain into poetry. She takes this on and instead of making it out to be dark, sad and heart breaking, she tells it with grace and compassion. Seabold avoids the topic of murder itself, infact in her book the girl says nothing of disparagement. Seabold refrains from taking a more grating rout on the murder she remains calm, and dances around the harsh subject; “The end came anyway”. The tone in the book is not that of, sorrowful and grief-stricken, but kind, pleasant, and wistful. Alice’s idea of having the protagonist in the story being the murderer offers no inside view on evil or the guilt he may feel. More importantly, the meat or the best part of the novel is-- the healing process that the narrator’s family has to undergo. At the end of her novel, it seems as if the author should provide closer to the family, however, the novel goes against the majority of the other novels of this type, and the murderer is never