To add on, the speaker of the passage is Susie due to the use of the words, my and I. Since Susie hurried home through the cornfield, where she was in gelid weather with Mr. Harvey, she refused to wear her hat and had to deal with the cold. Moreover, this passage conveys an example of symbolism due to the hat demonstrating her mother 's affection, but Mr. Harvey unfortunately used the hat to keep Susie silent in the underground shelter. Overall, Susie despised the hat her benevolent mother made for her on Christmas, however Mr. Harvey benefited from the hat to easily keep Susie …show more content…
Harvey. Also, the novel is vastly different to others, for example, “When I first entered heaven I thought everyone saw what I saw” (16). Due to Susie Salmon being deceased, resulted in her addition in heaven, enabling her to tell the story of her death. The novel also came together very nicely without bewildering the readers while shifting from her loved ones to Susie narrating in heaven. To add on even further, this can relate to an innumerable amount of people in the five stages of grief due to, “Today he could walk tall with grief and so could Abigail” (109). With Susie’s family and friends grieving, the readers comprehend everyone who suffers from loss, will normally experience grief. Since the novel is based off a true story, due to Alice Sebold being similar to Susie in getting raped, but luckily Sebold managed to live, making the novel a good read. All in all, The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, was a suspenseful novel with several mysteries, narrated by a murdered teenager. Works Cited:Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones: A Novel. Boston: Little, Brown, 2002.