Alice Sebold

In the story “Maria's story” by maria cardenas she described the struggles she went through in life, from working on the fields at a very young ,to her dad abusing her mother, being raped and getting pregnant by her rapist, lastly having to marry her child's father who physically abused her. Cardenas developed an urge to teach herself to read. As she mentions “teaching myself to read became the most important goal in my life” (cardenas, pg.60). Reading became her number one priority because she…

Afterlife When contemplating the concept of an afterlife, Shakespeare refers to it as : “the undiscovered country from which no traveller returns”. He referred death as an “undiscovered country”, prompting the unknowability humans contend with when discussing the concept of an afterlife. In previous centuries, when Christianity flourished, and more people believed in God, they also believed in the existence of afterlife. As the technologies and sciences developed throughout the centuries, the…

A disturbing and thought-provoking mystery novel by Alice Sebold about the death and afterlife of a fourteen year old girl, and how her family conquered an unpleasant circumstance. The opening chapters of the book are devastating, hard- hitting, and might bring the readers into a black mood, especially that the book is told from the perception of the main character. Susie Salmon at the age of 14 years old was murdered on the 6th of December 1973. Wherein it was mentioned in the second line…

most proficient authors are aware, the process of developing themes within a work of literature is one of the most important duties of a writer. Authors have numerous methods available to them for this task, including devices such as symbolism. Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones, uses symbolism frequently throughout her novel - a tale of a teenage girl who watches from her personal Heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on with their lives while she comes to terms with her own…

Needful Things by Stephen King: Stephen King is one of my favorite authors, he lead me into the world of science fiction and short stories. I fell in love with Needful Things because it had such a different feel than any of his other works I had read. Needful Things is a metaphor for the consequences instant gratification has. Although the book ends with practically the whole town being decimated by a bomb, I feel as though I still learned a valuable lesson in that, there is nothing wrong with…

emotions where you don’t know how to feel or even how to react. Death is something everyone is going to encounter despite wealth or health and by grieving you advance in life ready to confront new challenges without your loved one by your side. Alice Sebold made this clear through displaying how people change and that it isn’t always something negative, but that it also could lead to better things in life. This could be developing as a human being and becoming less fragile to these types of…

How would you feel if a judge sentenced you a life behind bars for something you didn’t commit? Many women accuse men of rape when they didn't rape anyone. There are a lot of cases that the "victim" chose a man from the police lineup that wasn’t her perpetrator. Before determining the person is guilty there should be a DNA test for the victim. The next paragraph will be talking about how this problem developed. This issue drew up by people not paying attention to the DNA tests, by not…

The current status of this case, The lovely Bones is a fiction novel ( 2002 ) Alice Sebold’s first novel. The story is narrated from Susie Salmon, a girl who was raped and killed by her neighbor. In 2017 today people love the book it was the hottest book in the summer of 2002 when it very first came out and it’s is based on…

incorporating the director’s artistic vision, in order to make the text his or her own as well. The supernatural drama Lovely Bones, directed by Peter Jackson, was released on December 11, 2009. The award winning movie, based on the bestselling novel by Alice Sebold, impressively recreates the chilling murder story of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon and the events after her death. Through the course of the movie, the viewer watches as Susie must contemplate her need to avenge her untimely death…

We Less Trusting Than Ever Before? We have two stories of girls just doing their best to fit in, Susie from the movie, “The Lovely Bones” directed by Peter Jackson written by Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens (All three screenplay), and Alice Sebold(Novel) and Connie from Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where are you going, where have you been?”. These girls are lured to the clutches of dangerous men that seemed harmless enough. They trusted them because they were “a man from our neighborhood” (The…