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In the book “The Lovely Bones” the characters suffered grief after losing a love



one. Grief is defined as the suffering or distress over affliction or loss. Grief occurs after



death of a love one, end of a relationship, or loss of wealth. According to , their



are five stages of grief: Denial, Anger, Depression, Bargaining and Acceptance.



The first stage of grief is Denial. In the Lovely Bones the parents (Abigail and



Jack) are in denial about their daughter’s death. After receiving a phone call from the



police saying that they found a body part Jack says “Nothing is ever certain my father



says.(Pg 24)” The father is in denial because he still believes that Susie is alive even after



the police tell him they have found a elbow. He is not thinking clearly, because it would



be impossible for Susie to be alive with one elbow. Abigail is in denial, after her



husband Jack tells her that they have found blood, and a elbow. The mom says



”Nothing is ever certain, my mother said, clinging to it as he had hope she might.” (Page



22). The mother really thinks that Susie is alive after all the evidence pointed to her



death she is clearly in denial.



The stage of grief is Anger. Jack and Lindsey showed anger toward Susie’s



death. A quote from the novel that proves Jack was angry is “The father showed anger by



destroying the ship he and Susie worked on together. “In the closet were more ships he



had build alone, and then those we had made together. Some were perfect, but their sails



browned; some had sagged or toppled over after years. Then there was the



one that had burst into flames in the week before my death. He smashed that one first.



My heart seized up. He turned and saw all the others, all the years they marked and the



hands that had held them. His dead father’s, his dead child’s. I watched him as he



smashed the rest. (Page 52)” Jack was angry, and to deal with his anger he destroys the



ships that he and Susie worked on. Another character from the novel that showed angry



was Lindsey. A quote from the novel which proves that Lindsey was angry is “ My



father listened to Lindsey in her room. Bang, the door was slammed shut. Thump, her



books were thrown down. Squeak she fell onto her bed. Her clogs, boom, boom were



kicked onto the floor. (Page 67)” This quote proves to me that Lindsey was angry about



Susie’s death and that she did not know how to deal with the death of her sister. She was



angry because she wanted the police to arrest the person who killed her sister.



The third stage of grief is Depression. In the novel the Lovely Bones Lindsey,



and Abigail showed depression. Lindsey was depressed in the novel because of her sister



death. Lindsey refused to look in mirrors, and took showers in the dark. While in the



shower, she would cry thinking about sister. She imagined Susie fighting and running



away from Mr. Harvey. A quote from the novel proving this point is “Even Lindsey was



not immune. She avoided mirrors. She now took her showers in the dark. She would



leave the dark shower and feel her way over to the towel rack. She would be safe in the



dark the moist steam from the shower still rising off the tiles encased her. If the house



was quiet or is she heard murmurs below her, she knew she would be undisturbed. This



was when she could think of me and she did so in two ways: She either thought Susie,



just that one word, and cried there, letting her tears roll down her already damp cheeks,



knowing no one would see her, no one would quantify this dangerous substance as grief,



or she would imagine me running, imagine me getting away, imagine herself being taken



instead fighting until she was free. (Page 67) Jack also was depressed about his



daughter’s death. After destroying the ships that he and Susie built together Jack begins



to cry and become depressed. A quote from the novel that proves this is “He was about to



smash the mirror over my dresser, rip the wallpaper down with his nails, but instead he



fell against my bed, sobbing, and balled the lavender sheets up in his hand. My father



turned but was unable to stop his tears. He slid to the floor with the sheets still in his fists,



and then he opened his arms. He had to ask my brother twice, which he had never had to



before, but Buckley came to him. (Page 52-53)”





The fourth stage of grief is Bargaining. In the novel Jack the father does the



bargaining stage. After figuring out that Mr. Harvey was the one that killed his daughter



he begs, pleas and harasses the police to find evidence proving that Mr. Harvey



murdered his daughter. A quote from the novel proving this is “ I don’t want to sound



irrational, Detective Fenerman,” my father said. I’m a certain there’s a man in the



neighborhood who knows something, my father said. He was staring out of the window



of his upstairs den, toward the cornfield. Who is it, what led you to believe this? Len



Fenerman asked. My father told him about the tent, about how Mr. Harvey had told him



to go home, about saying my name about how weird the neighborhood thought Mr.



was with no regular job and no kids. (Page 69)





The fifth stage of grief is Acceptance. In the novel, Jack finally accepts that Susie



is dead. After Jack has a heart attack, he accepts that Susie is dead. He realized that he is



hurting the family that he has left. A quote from the novel that proves this is “ My father



dreamed that one day he might teach another child to love ship in bottles. He knew there



would be both sadness and joy in it: that it would always hold an echo! (Page 368)” This



quote tells me that the father is done grieving Susie death and wants to move on with his



life.



In conclusion, I have learned that the five stages of grief can affect anyone. I have



also learned that it will take time for a family to grief a loss of someone who has died in



their family. After reading the lovely bones I would not recommend this book to anyone.



This book is filled with negative topics that would not be good for anyone to read. The



book also ends bad. I think that the author rushes to end the book. But overall I think that



this book teaches a life lesson.