The Lovely Bones Research Paper

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Alice Sebold presents finding self-identity as the prime purpose of the Lovely Bones. She uses different viewpoints to show how people cope and console in different manners. To achieve her purpose, Sebold uncovers horrible truths of the world. Sex is presented as a theme in the novel that is persuaded as a positive topic throughout the story which helps characters find themselves or is shown very negatively to contrast the horrors it can create in the wrong circumstances. Ultimately all forms of sex in the novel reveal deeper stories to the characters that define their lives. The positivity associated with making love in this story blooms from its ability to allow characters to forget their troubles and live their lives. For example,…show more content…
This action allows Susie to enter heaven and discover the truths of the Earth and secrets of all around her. The Lovely Bones is the story of a teenage girl who, after being raped and murdered, 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 death. The characters in The Lovely Bones are faced with a difficult task of overcoming the loss of Susie, their daughter and sister. Jack, Abigail, Buckley and Lindsey each deal with the loss differently. The Lovely Bones explores the different ways in which people process grief when they lose a common loved one. When Susie Salmon is killed on her way home from school, the remaining four members of her family all deal differently with their grief. Susie’s father, Jack Salmon, is someone who resorts to anger to explain the emotions that he’s experiencing from losing his daughter. Although all the evidence pointed towards Susie being dead, he continued to deny the loss of his daughter. It didn’t take long though for his denial to turn into pain and anger. When Jack breaks the ships Susie and he made together, it was a sign of Jack realizing that Susie’s death was now a reality and reveals his inner anger. Day by day he would
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