Hope In Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones

Hope is the feeling that what is wanted, can be had, or that events will turn out for the best. In many desperate times, many grasp the idea of the best, leaving the worst aside. It is an attitude based on expectations of positive outcomes related to certain events, or hard times in ones life. Hope comes into its own when a crisis looms, opening us to new creative possibilities.

This type of faith keeps you going in the face of adversity. This symbol plays a major part in the hope that a loved one will return, maintaining hope towards a healing process, and a hope for an individual’s secret to be kept.

“Nothing is ever certain”. This main quote within the novel of the Lovely Bones is a way for the Salmons to believe that their daughter Suzie is still alive. The author Alice Sebold, explores the different ways in which people process grief when they lose a loved one. This is what Suzie’s father said when the …show more content…
this was the they maintain order in this chaos. Though in the end of the novel the family has no choose but to except that she is gone, the hope they once had is still alive, it is now just in a different way by keeping faith that her soul is rested and she is watching over them. This is the only thing that the family can hold onto. In similarity, within “The Dickson Herald”, the mother of Dylan Ibarra, Amber says “So when you get in a dangerous or sticky situation, you just kind of pray your way though and God will lead you all the way there”. She says this quote at the time when her son went missing. Due to the enormous amount of faith she had, her son returned to her after five years. As a connection, in Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, his character Nick describes Jay Gatsby by saying, “He wouldn 't consider it. He couldn 't possibly leave Daisy until he knew what she was going to do. He was clutching onto some last hope and I couldn