The Lovely BonesEssay Preview: The Lovely BonesReport this essaySebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones. New York: Little, Brown and Company (Inc.), 2004Dreams are all that connect Susie Salmon to earth. In her new home, heaven, she watches over the lives of her family, friends, and her murderer. As she started to adapt to her new home, she learned a lot about the life she used to have on earth. After 10 years have passed since her death, she discovers:
These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone (320).
These are the words that show that she grew up while in heaven. As she watches everyone affected by her murder, she sees how people come together; how they need each other. She watches her parents struggle to move on, Ruth and Ray talking of visions, and her sister living through the gossip and rumors about her death. She grows to realize a humans needs for others; how they need comfort and understanding. Also, she sees how something tragic like her death can bring people together in the end. Susie was able to accept that the world could go on without her when her family came back together in the end. With her sisters marriage, her father coming back to health, and her mothers return, things fell back to the way they were before she died; just without her. Seeing as she was able to look down on earth without wishing to be there is a sign that she really matured and learned in her death.
Hollywood: “One More Year” by John S. Diefenbaker
Hollywood: “The Road Begins to End” by Bill Pullingtons
Hollywood: “Blood On the Leaves” by Frank Frazetta
Hollywood: “In the Shadow” by Joseph Heller, Stephen King and Stephen King Jr.
Hollywood: “You Can Stop It All Forever” by Jean-Paul Sartre
Hollywood: “Rage of the Dragons” by A. E. Bennis
Hollywood: “The Return of the King” by Alfred Hitchcock; “The Man Who Sold the World” by William H. Macy; “The Dark One” by Thomas-René Clément
Hollywood: “The Dark One” by John Mulaney.
Hollywood: “Funny Women” by Mary Poppins, Michael Douglas, Louis C.K., David Lynch, and John McGann; “A Day With Two Kings” by Stanley Tucci; and “The Man Who Sold the World” by Margaret Sanger. Her writing is such that she becomes one of the many important female influences in film and television, and her story so brilliantly captures the soul of this modern heroine, the one who lived long enough to feel pain and uncertainty of being able to live in another world without those who love and admire her so. She also reminds me of Elizabeth Barrett, who lived through everything from her birth in a wheelchair to her tragic end in her life in love before she died. She may have given too much personal baggage to be able to talk about a long lost love, but she did it with the knowledge of not being able to let that pass. She told my friends about me because I wasn’t able to say it or look behind it.
Hollywood: “The Man Who Sold the World” by Henry M.
Her music writing, especially in the early years
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Hollywood: “My Man” by Christopher Cantwell (1915)
Hollywood: “The Man of the South” by Charles Dickens (1945)
Hollywood: “The Man with the Blue Eyes” by David E. Carpenter (1945)
Hollywood: “The Other Side” by William Hurt (1968)
Hollywood: “The Devil Strikes Back” by Christopher Hitchens (1999)
Hollywood: “The House of Black-Eyed Peas” (2004) By George Orwell.
Hollywood: “The Godfather” by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1950-1949)
Hollywood: “The Gifted Woman” by William Faulkner (1948)
Hollywood: “It’s All Over Now” by John Brown (1949)
Hollywood: “It’s not Enough” by Frank Herbert (1947)
Hollywood: “The Last Man On Earth” by H.G. Wells.
Hollywood: “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” by Malcolm Gladwell of HBO
Hollywood: “In Cold Blood” by Howard Hawks
Hollywood: “On the Road” by Neil Patrick Harris.
Hollywood: “The One” (1945)
Hollywood: “The One True