"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. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous lifeless body had been my life."
2007-01-07 12:32:04 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
My guess is that she is not speaking of her physical bones but the impact that her short life had on those around her. In some way there has been meaning and good come out of her brutal death. The bones being the re-structuring and rebuilding of her family. One of the saddest and yet happiest books I have ever read.
2007-01-07 13:27:59 · answer #1 · answered by digitsis 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Lovely Bones represent the way everyone that was affected by Susie's death healed and the way they moved on.
2007-01-07 20:10:04 · answer #2 · answered by Alyssa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Lovely Bones was initially for young adults, but it is a great read for adults as well. There are more and more books these days that cross voer between young adults and adults - and I think it's great! ;-)
2016-05-23 06:21:06 · answer #3 · answered by Barbara 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋