Thursday, February 11, 2010

4th post

Summary
Now I have finished the entire book and I absolutely love the ending. The book is tellign hte story as years fly and Lindsey even graduated from college. From here the mother has years since she went away from work and left all her children behind. As the father one day suffers of a heart attack she comes back. Once she comes and spends 2 days with Jack in the hospital they get all the love back and have a cute moment where they cry and everything. As this is going on Susie after all these years still remains warching everything that is happening on earth. Lindsey then on her way home with Samuel, they stop at a little house were they make love in a closet. After this he asks to marry her and she accepts. After this Susie went in Ruth's body and made love with Ray. Ray knew it was her and so did Ruth when they awoken the next day. As they celebrate its starting to be the moment when the family is learning to let go of Susie. Time passes and Lindsey has a girl in which the dad hopes one day he can teach about ship bottles. As the family moves on they all realize that they will never forget her and just remember her by never forgetting who Susie Salmon once was.

Quotation
" You don't notice the dead leaving when they really choose to leave you. You're not meant to. At most you feel them as a whisper or the wave of a whisper undulating you" (Sebold 323).

Reaction
my reaction to this quote said by Susie is that her family didn't let her go until she let go. I feel like her family felt apart because she watched over them and followed them. Her family knew that she still lived in the house therefor they never had a chance to let her go. But after she decided to leave and her family moved on past her death. After the family found themselves again they left Susie in their memory where she always belonged. This quote made me remember about me when my father had to leave me. I made a big scene and didn't want to except the fact that my father wasn't going to be with me every single day. Although I learned to let go and realize I am talk to him on the phone at least , even though it wont be in person.

1 comment:

  1. so what happens to Susie in heaven once the family has moved on?

    thanks for sharing your personal connection with the story's emotions

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