Literature Analysis (Fiction)
Plot:
"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." This is how the story begins of Susie Salmon, a teenage girl who faced regular teenage problems and antics, now dead and trying to adjust her new life in heaven. Throughout the whole book, Susie watches from above as her family spends so much time and dedication trying to find out who killed their precious daughter, sister, and friend. Susie tries her best to adjust to her heaven, she watches how life on earth continues without her- her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her family grieving heavily over her death, and most of all her murderer trying to cover up their tracks. Her family goes through a rough time, without any knowledge of who would want to take out such an important human of their lives, their troubles unraveling with all the burden that was put on them. Susie's mother runs away in order to cope with the grief, her younger brother grows up without much of a motherly figure, her younger sister copes with Susie's disappearance by burying herself in everything of her to figure out who murdered her sister, and her father is left to pick up all the pieces of their family that is falling apart. Everyone in her neighborhood tries to adjust with her death, everyone including her murderer- who tries his best to blend in with everyone else, he tries to show grief and sadness when it comes to her death, but Susie witnesses how much he tries to cover up what horrifying thing he has committed. Their whole lives they live without knowing that her murderer, lived right next door. Years had passed and Susie's mother comes back, her father and brother try and fix their relationship with her even though she completely abandoned them through such a rough time, her younger sister is now happily married and has named her newly born daughter after her sister, Susie, and her murderer is now dead- killed by an icicle that had fallen on him during the same time he had killed Susie, Christmas time. All the while, Susie was finally ready to move on from her heaven and peacefully leave her family behind.
The whole plot of this book allowed readers to open their eyes to the world around them, it was written to warn people about the scary world that's right at their doorsteps. The theme for this book can possibly be that the chance of death makes everyone, friend or enemy, as small and helpless in the big scheme of things.
"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." This is how the story begins of Susie Salmon, a teenage girl who faced regular teenage problems and antics, now dead and trying to adjust her new life in heaven. Throughout the whole book, Susie watches from above as her family spends so much time and dedication trying to find out who killed their precious daughter, sister, and friend. Susie tries her best to adjust to her heaven, she watches how life on earth continues without her- her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her family grieving heavily over her death, and most of all her murderer trying to cover up their tracks. Her family goes through a rough time, without any knowledge of who would want to take out such an important human of their lives, their troubles unraveling with all the burden that was put on them. Susie's mother runs away in order to cope with the grief, her younger brother grows up without much of a motherly figure, her younger sister copes with Susie's disappearance by burying herself in everything of her to figure out who murdered her sister, and her father is left to pick up all the pieces of their family that is falling apart. Everyone in her neighborhood tries to adjust with her death, everyone including her murderer- who tries his best to blend in with everyone else, he tries to show grief and sadness when it comes to her death, but Susie witnesses how much he tries to cover up what horrifying thing he has committed. Their whole lives they live without knowing that her murderer, lived right next door. Years had passed and Susie's mother comes back, her father and brother try and fix their relationship with her even though she completely abandoned them through such a rough time, her younger sister is now happily married and has named her newly born daughter after her sister, Susie, and her murderer is now dead- killed by an icicle that had fallen on him during the same time he had killed Susie, Christmas time. All the while, Susie was finally ready to move on from her heaven and peacefully leave her family behind.
The whole plot of this book allowed readers to open their eyes to the world around them, it was written to warn people about the scary world that's right at their doorsteps. The theme for this book can possibly be that the chance of death makes everyone, friend or enemy, as small and helpless in the big scheme of things.
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