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where he had buried a waitress. Upon his arrival at the site, he notices
that the grave he had made years ago had been dug up. His
immediate reaction was that he had been compromised and he wanted
to after Lindsey again just to get revenge on the one person he had not
been able to harm previously. He blames just about everyone around
him for his problems instead of looking at himself and his intentions
are purely to kill to relieve the hatred he feels.
Prompt 4
Q: Which character has the greatest evolution as a human being?
The character whom I believed had the greatest evolution as an
individual would be Lindsey. She was a soft, quiet person when all her
family was together and happy. However after Susies death, she
becomes harder, she joins the soccer team and even finds love. Her
personality is more straightforward and almost has a desire to resist
convention. She learnt to deal with her state of tragedy different than a
lot of the characters and this is what set her apart from everyone since
she grew in this process. Even after becoming an adult, she turns into
the more rebellious type with Samuel. Through it all, however, she still
remains responsible towards her family.
Q: Which character has the least evolution as a human being?
The character that seemed to have had the least evolution as an
individual would be Mr. Harvey. He started out as ruthless killer and
ended up as a ruthless killer. He felt no need to change his ways
because he felt that his hatred towards women and children was
justified. He had chances to turn himself in or turn his life around
throughout the novel but he never did. His wrath and harmful
intentions did not end until he, himself, was killed by a fallen icicle.
Q: Relate the novel to the Human Experience
The novel is all about how a family reacts to a death and not
being able to find the body of their lost family member. The book
shows how each person reacted and changed during the plot after
Susies death and the string of events that followed. Susie gets to
watch her family from her personal heaven and sees everything that
happens on earth. She learns more about her family here than if she
had stayed alive because it is from heaven that she can see who the
people around her truly were in a time when it mattered most to keep
hope and love.
Reflection
1) This novel is definitely something students should be exposed to
because it portrays real life emotions and reactions to real life
events. Not every book taught in college has this type of
experiences and it is ok for the students to feel somewhat
uncomfortable because it is instinct to feel that way when
exposed to such gruesome thoughts brought by Mr. Harvey in the
book. It teaches the students of the different monsters of life,
whether it be psychopaths, deep depression, regrets, loneliness,
or the feeling of not being able to let go, and it makes the
readers aware to not react abruptly to such instinctual emotions.
Rather, it makes the reader want to not act like those in the book
and act more rationally.
2) The Lovely Bones shows good characters show how not everyone
is perfect yet they strive to accomplish as much justice as they
can even through their mishaps. Moral relativism is dangerous
because one person might think it is right to get rid of and kill
people they think are evil while others think it would be more
proper to bring evildoers to justice and have them serve their
time. Killing, of course, should never really be the answer in
revenge because in society we are taught that killing out of spite
is wrong no matter what the circumstance.
3) In my personal opinion, I think the idea of a persons personal
heaven is a pretty innovative and cool idea. I had always pictured
heaven to be somewhere where everyone shared their eternal
lives together so when we read about Susie being able to mold
her heaven, I thought it was pretty neat. I also thought that the
idea of someone being killed with an icicle as the best murder
was innovative because I would have never in my wildest dream
ever even thought of that as a weapon.
4) If I could tell the writer one thing to better the text, it would be to
organize the flashbacks and point of views a little better. There
would be times when I got a little confused because I would not
know if they were talking about Susie seeing from heaven or if
the point of view was just focused on earth.
5) I think its pretty interesting that I feel that I learned more about
the novel when we were doing the in-class prompts. I read the
book but I did not really piece it together as well as when we
talked about more specific instances and their consequences in
the discussions. Seeing the details in this light helped me to
better format my more in depth analysis when it came to
comparing the book to the classroom topic of the human
experience.