Susie Harvey Character Analysis

One who wasn't in the wrong, but soon administers a tragedy in life, loses their innocence. As strange as it sounds, life experiences can age a person, from tragedy to soon having authority. Susie Salmon was raped and murdered at the age of 14. The very observant girl now watches over everyone. Her personal heaven grew into a “wide wide heaven”. Susies mother abigail henders her relationship with Jack , then mends the brokenness after many years. Evidence comes out that George Harvey, the neighbor was found guilty of Susie’s death. Alice Sebold uses the topic loss of innocence, to help readers understand that through tragedies, people become wiser,closer and may never heal.

When someone overcomes hardship, they become wiser. Susie, a Junior High female walking through a cornfield, soon had her life brutally taken from her. She said,“My name was Salmon, like a fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.” (Sebold 5) The ordinary childhood, most experience, was quickly

Lindsey and Samuel walked into an abandoned house, beginning to bond, as Susie from up above narrates, “She and Samuel began to unzip leathers.”(pg 237) The rain forced them to stop, their motorcycle, on there way home from graduation. Two of them soon approached a fascinating victorian home. They quickly became very close as the lightning striked. A few weeks after this episode, Abigail received horrible news. When Abigail found out Jack was in the hospital her heart told her she had to go, “...her face on the edge of his pillow to watch him breathing, to see the flutter of his eye beneath his eyelid when he dreamed.”(pg 277) After fleeing the family for years, Abigail renewed her love, with Jack when she had heard that he was in the hospital, due to a heart attack. She flew into town and soon cuddled up, in the hospital bed. In today’s society, individuals try to come together in hopes of overcoming through tough