The book I read was the Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. This book is about a girl named Susie Salmon who is brutally murdered by a creepy neighbor. She watches her family and friends from heaven always hoping for one last hug or one more kiss or one last goodbye. She accidentally appears to her family members while she is looking upon them. Her father worries himself over her death while her mother runs off to California to be free again. She watches her sister and her one and only love become engaged and her baby brother grow up. It is like her whole world she knew is passing her and changing because of her death.
This book was one of the best books I’ve read this year. It was a very heart wrenching story that kept me reading on. Even the first line of the book caught me: “I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6th, 1943” (1). I had first heard from friends that the movie was very bad, and it made me a little turned off of the book. But, my curiosity is much deeper than someone’s opinion, so I started reading it and compared it to what others said was in the movie. Turns out, it has a lot of important and interesting parts that make the story come to life. I have yet to see the movie, but I hope to soon.
This story portrays life after death in a very intellectual way that most of us have dreamed that the afterlife would be. It shows Susie as an angel in heaven that is always looking down on her family and friends. She is also seen like some experts say, just a glimpse of a body with the clothes on that she was killed in with no speech to the person that sees them. Susie states that “the truth was that the line between the living and the dead could be murky and blurred” (48) which means that the living and the dead could have a bridge to each other that could help give her that last time she wanted on Earth. She also posses someone and uses their body to bring the two worlds together to communicate. It is, on the contrary to Hollywood, a good spirit that means no harm to the family but is still considered a paranormal activity to scientists. Though this book was nonfiction, it had a great perspective on the dead because it focused on the spirit itself.
This book was one of the best books I’ve read this year. It was a very heart wrenching story that kept me reading on. Even the first line of the book caught me: “I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6th, 1943” (1). I had first heard from friends that the movie was very bad, and it made me a little turned off of the book. But, my curiosity is much deeper than someone’s opinion, so I started reading it and compared it to what others said was in the movie. Turns out, it has a lot of important and interesting parts that make the story come to life. I have yet to see the movie, but I hope to soon.
This story portrays life after death in a very intellectual way that most of us have dreamed that the afterlife would be. It shows Susie as an angel in heaven that is always looking down on her family and friends. She is also seen like some experts say, just a glimpse of a body with the clothes on that she was killed in with no speech to the person that sees them. Susie states that “the truth was that the line between the living and the dead could be murky and blurred” (48) which means that the living and the dead could have a bridge to each other that could help give her that last time she wanted on Earth. She also posses someone and uses their body to bring the two worlds together to communicate. It is, on the contrary to Hollywood, a good spirit that means no harm to the family but is still considered a paranormal activity to scientists. Though this book was nonfiction, it had a great perspective on the dead because it focused on the spirit itself.
Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones. New York: Back Bay Books, 2007. 1-328. Print.
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