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Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones has several themes that include love, loss, grief, unity, and death. Yet, out of all of those themes the one that begins and closes the story is the theme of mortality. Mortality makes us realise how fast things Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones has several themes that include love, loss, grief, unity, and death. Yet, out of all of those themes the one that begins and closes the story is the theme of mortality. Mortality makes us realise how fast things can be taken away. It shows us the the fragility of life and makes us question everything around us but we can not live that way. As we continue to breath we must continue to live just like a “ follower or the sun; it cannot be contained” (pg.105) In the novel the young girl , Susie tells her story threw her afterlife. Hoping to manage with her death and the loss of those who once were around her. Also with the family trying to find peace with the lose of their daughter. Sebold forces readers to suffer with Susie and her family. For the more engaged reader, one may feel as if they lost Susie. The reader follows Susie and her family along an emotional roller coaster which allows Susie, her family, and the reader to finally let go. Mortality becomes more present when the Salmon family when the “ Gilbert dog had found an elbow” (pg.70) susie elbow. The Salmon family had gotten the news that the elbow that was found was their daughters and she was declared dead. The family “had never understood, as they did now, what the word horror meant”. (pg.85) Receiving that news soon started to tear the family apart. Everyone started making choice for themselves and their own lives individually and no longer for the family. Susie's death gave theme a path to look deeper into their lives. Still, it is clear that the murder has touched them in such a way that they can appreciate how finite life really is....more
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