Suzie's main conflict in this story is her inability to overcome her desire to live. She's angry that Mr. Harvey hurt her. In a way she is trying to live her life through her family. Shes not accepted that this is her fate. Suzie still feels that she must also help her family that has fallen apart.
This conflict is what makes this book interesting, it is the struggle of being so close to helping the people that you love but yet she is so far, its almost like a barrier that she cant get out of. It seems that Suzie can only connect with two of the other characters her brother Buckley who has throughout out the novel has "seen her" and Ruth a person who has a connection with the dead. Ruth has also seen Suzie. At one point in the book Suzie falls from heaven to earth and her soul is put into Ruth's body. It does not last long, but Suzie has time to feel somewhat "alive". Suzie's conflict is clear, It felt like she has so called "stuck " and can also not come to terms with her death to move forward in the "in between". Part of the reason that I believe she is there for is to help her family. In the end she is finally realised into the "wide heaven" she not only able to find healing but also help her family but find resolution to their own conflicts and also move on.
How do you come to terms with something that just wasnt ment to be or happen in your life?
If something wasn't ment to to be and happened in my life I'd try to deal with it. I'd probably do exacly what she is doing to tell you the honest truth.
ReplyDeleteIt depends on what it is... If it was something that was not a big deal then I would try to get over it. If it was something big then I would try to cope with it. If it was not meant to be, it was not meant to be. Everything happens for a reason, whatever the reason may be. If it was something that was my life, then I would try to find something to fill the void. I have tried to get my family back together and soon realized there was nothing I could do to change that. I talked to friends and other family and got through it pretty well.
ReplyDeleteEverything in your life happens for a reason good or bad. You have to except whatever comes your way and deal with it and not let it bother you and move forward and try to make the best of your life.
ReplyDeleteI believe that everyting that happens is for a reason. Even though sometimes its hard to accept the things that happen to us they could have a good outcome in the end.
ReplyDeleteI believe that everything has a purpose and everything happens for a reason, i mean obviously there are something that can be prevented but overall things that dont go the way we want them to in our lives cant be changed we just have to learn how to cope with them.
ReplyDeleteI believe that you have to face what is put on you and know in your heart that it was meant to be and things just happen for a reason. You move on and look only at the good times and positive side of things.
ReplyDeleteIts hard to come to the truth about something that has happen which shouldn't of happened but to have peace with u have accept it for nothing can change to bring back what was once there.
ReplyDeleteits hard when your faced with something like that, if its not ment to be then its not u cant change something that was not ment to be it just wont work, you have to accept it and move on
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