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Literary Devices in The Lovely Bones (A distinctive idea, especially a…

- - - - Phonetics -> Phonetics is the representation of sound or other speech phenomena. It is a system of spelling in which each letter represents (constantly) the same spoken sound. Phonetics also represents speech sounds by symbols that has only one value. (An example of phonetics is the International Phonetic Alphabet which standardises the pronunciation of words from any language so that anyone in any language can pronounce it properly). An example of phonetics in the lovely bones chapter 1 is when a statement, minor sentence or phrase is ended with a question mark - this depicts the voice-sound made by a character. A second example in the Lovely Bones is when Susie is being raped, she reflects on her family and hears her mother saying, ''Susie! Susie!'' and ''Dinner is ready''. The exclamation mark in the previous sentence shows that the tone and pitch in Susie's mom's exclamation is very high.
- - - - An Example of Bathos in the Lovely Bones is when Mr Harvey says ' you're mine now'. While Susie is fighting for her life to escape the 'clubhouse' she then goes on to think about the stereotype that girls that are strong are considered as lesbians.
        
        Another example of Bathos is when Susie is talking about the niceness of the clubhouse. Although the topic then suddenly changes through discourse markers earn the Gilbert's dog found Susie's elbow.
        
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- - - - 1) The Real World: This is a world that the living inhabit. In the movie it is implied that Susie can have some influence over it, or example when her father is in the cornfield and we see the two worlds merge together, but she cannot return to it.
      - 2) Transit: it is between limbo and the real world. After Susie, the narrator, is killed the narrate is told "I was still in transit then" to describe the passing of time between Mr Harvey hiding the evidence (save for the elbow) and her starting to observe what is happening in the real world.
      - 3) Susie's World (limbo): Susie's world is where anything she wants to happen can happen. However in the movie it is implied that this is not the final stage. Susie cannot share her world with everyone, but those that are similar in personality to her, therefore two people may never meet after death. Like Susie and her teacher's daughter "but I never saw her in my heaven"
        
        "but I never saw her in my heaven" is one of the first looks into what life after death is like in this novel. At first we may presume the girl has gone to hell, but it always strikes us as odd considering the girl was young, younger than Susie and the father seemed kind. Later on we find out the reason for Susie not seeing the girl in her heaven, which is that their personalities are different, so they may not see one another.
      - 4) Mr Harvey's World: His world is something that materialises in the real world only in the form of murders, and it's a world he loves to inhabit. When he murders Susie he keeps a pendant from her necklace as a way of reliving his experience killing her . For a little while that is enough to keep him satisfied, but in the movie he begins to feel a "familiar itch" after Susie's sister stalks him.
        
        In limbo Mr Harvey's world materialises as his house in which lots of bodies are hidden and to overcome this and move onto heaven Susie has to find out the story of each of the bodies there and come to terms with her death.
      - 5) Heaven: the final destination after Susie is satisfied with everything on Earth and in limbo.
  - - - Ray and Ruth: with Susie taken from the equation Ray and Ruth become closer to one another, using each other to fill in the gap that Susie has left.
      - Susie's Parents: We see Susie's parents drift apart in the story as they both find different ways to cope with the murder. The father wants to get to the bottom of what happened, whereas the mother is unable to return to normal and seems to take on a more emotional and possibly less productive role in the story as she appears to be falling apart over the death of her daughter, understandably. So much so that she has to take time away to cope.
      - Susie and Holly: Holly becomes almost a guardian angel to Susie while she is going through hard times and teaches her to basics of the limbo world they are in. At the end of the story they come together to move into Heaven. They have similar personalities, which is why Holly and Susie are able to talk to one another in the after life.
  - - - Dad: The dad busies himself, almost to the point of becoming obsessive with who could be behind Susie's disappearance and murder. He goes as far as to accuse people with easily explainable situations, which does provide a bit of comic relief to the dark narrative.
      - Susie's Sister: Like the dad, she busies herself to the point of risking her life to find out who the murder is.
      - Mum: Has to move away to find herself. Tells people she only has two children. Seems to be taking it the worst.
      - Ray: Becomes closer to Ruth in light of her death. Expresses himself in poetry.
      - Ruth: Having been the last person Susie touched finds herself unable talk to her parent's about what she had seen - Susie running - and so joins Ray in making poetry and expresses herself there.
      - Brother: is young so unable to understand the situation but dreams about Susie. May not be grief.