The Lovely Bones: Guided: E.C.

Many changes went on in The Lovely Bones. Susie Salmon, dies, and quite gruesomely if I do say so myself. She is dead by page ten and we already know who has done the deed by page five. Now, to go from living to dead may sound like a huge, major, gargantuan change. It really was not for Susie. When Susie died, she “ghosted” away, just like a kite. As she was leaving our world and moving on to the other side, she touched someone. She touched Ruth Connors. Ruth had always been different, but now she was seeing Susie in her dreams and thinking about her constantly. Susie can see Ruth and watches her write poems about her and draw her. This is not all Susie can see. She watches her crush, Ray Singh, as he grieves her and goes through the process of answering the police. Susie watches all of this, like a movie, from her place among the dead. She meets a girl named Holly. They have similar Heavens because they both wanted to make it to High School, so that’s what their Heaven is. During the entire book, Susie watches her family change and move through life. No one ever forgets her or lets her go. For several years they do not touch her room or celebrate her. Her mom leaves and her dad has a heart attack. She watches all these things change right before her eyes, but can do nothing. Until one day when Ruth and Ray are at an old shack and Ruth has an experience. Ruth changes internally. She becomes Susie and Susie and Ray get to spend one last day together. This entire book was one character changing after another, so there was no specific change to share.