The Lovely Bones Character Analysis

Susie Salmon was a young girl ripped away from an entire life that every person should live. Her death was a huge deficit not only for the Salmon family, but the school and the community. Susie, without having the right amount of experience in the world to realize she would be of exile, was forced into watching the living. This experience was not only sad, but enriching in some ways. It is easy to see these effects on Susie as she watches from heaven and through the eyes of the ones she loves. At age fourteen, there is very much more life to live and when Susie was exiled from her home, friends, and family, she was alienated. When Susie’s life was taken away from her by George Harvey, Susie was not able to say her goodbyes. Her death was so sudden that Susie’s family was not able to find out she was really dead until the police officers found Susie’s bell hat. That not being enough evidence to find the man

After death, the ones who are still living learn to let go and relationships become more compact. If Susie had never died, Ruth and Ray wouldn’t even be the friends that they are now. They each had some connection to Susie which lead their destiny to each other. For the Salmon family, it was rare for grandma Lynn to visit them. After Susie’s death, grandma Lynn traveled to Pennsylvania for the funeral and ended up living in the Salmon household. As devastated as the whole family was, it made situations much worse when Abigail had left them and moved to California. In the eight years that Abigail left, Jack and her had re-fallen in love with each other. Abigail flew back to Pennsylvania when Jack was designated to the hospital after his heart attack. Susie’s parents never divorced, but the time away from each other steadily brought them closer. The overcoming of difficult situations in relationships to make the best outcome of them is the definition of lovely