The Lovely Bones Analysis Essay

Alice Sebold’s phenomenal novel, The Lovely Bones conveys that accepting the reality of difficult situations is challenging and people progress at different rates. The cover art of The Lovely Bones mostly displays the message that Sebold wishes the readers’ to understand. This is because, even if the blue colour gradient shows the sorrowful mood of the “difficult challenge: of the theme, the direction of the gradient that goes from dark from the bottom to lighter on the top indicates that the so called ‘light’ from Heaven and the chance of happiness and change from Susie Salmon, which she desires* -but there still could be the alteration of the title (as shown in Notebook on page 25) to exhibit more clearly that the murderer, Mr. Harvey goes after beautiful teenage girls, who are ‘lovely’ and the death of those minors represent the ‘bones’. In the mesmerizing story we, the readers, see the life lesson communicated on page 131 where it reads “what I think was the hardest for me to realize was that he tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to …show more content…
One of the changes I made to enhance the cover is adding the colour yellow on the top and its edges to represent the chance of hope from Heaven. Which was caused by Susie Salmon by her intense aspiration to change lives of those on Earth.* In comparison to the blue colour gradient to just demonstrate the ‘light’ of the lighter shade of blue, the yellow indicates positivity. This more accurately communicates the tone because of the opportunity of the desire from Susie Salmon from Heaven -up above- could be shown in the yellow - on the top-. Additionally, the cover conveys a shocked and disbelieving tone well enough to understand the meaning. Another purpose of the change made as announced above, was to show the acceptance from the theme was the yellow