This week I managed to read the first 47 pages of my book, The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. So far, the book has been quite sorrowful and gruesome. The main character, Susie Salmon, is recognized in the first couple of pages. After her personality, family, friends and daily routine has been established, she begins telling the sad story of her death. While Susie is telling the tale of her life before death, she is also describing her life after death, in heaven. As she begins to understand her new life in heaven, she is also beginning to see how the death of a loved one can affect a person in weird ways. Susie begins to understand that heaven may be the ideal place, but the one thing she desires most is the one thing she can’t have; life. She would give anything to be able to comfort her family, tell the truth about her death and stop all the dumb lies about that horrible, terrible, cold night.
The book has been very good, so far. Its different from any book I have ever read before because of the combined description of the character’s life before death and after. I am very excited to read more.
For my next week of reading I predict that, as Susie’s family gets more pessimistic about her safe return home, she will try to give signs to her family members below. She will try to send them hints to how she got murdered and who her murderer is. But since heaven has certain ‘limitations’ and ‘rules’ about such things as conversing with the living, Susie will somehow get in trouble .
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