| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 英語學系 === 95 === This thesis aims to discuss Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones, a novel about the psychological status of the characters, including the narrator, Susie, her family, her friends, and her murderer, sustaining ten years after Susie’s death in terms of “Heaven” and “Earth.” Chapter One reveals the motives and the outline of the following four chapters, together with a brief summary of The Lovely Bones. Chapter Two deals with the concerns regarding Susie’s role as a more reliable narrator in The Lovely Bones as well as Susie’s description of the Earth from her own heaven, and its subsequent effects. Chapter Three mentions individual heavens emerging from various characters’ viewpoints and imagination along with the author’s explanation about heaven. Chapter Four points out a bridge between Earth and Heaven following Susie’s and relevant persons’ changes due to the murder. The last chapter concludes with some suggested and potential concerns to be noticed and discussed further. It seems that the novel does not offer a definite, final conclusion, and resolution. However, it includes the returning to zeroness and achievement of an eternity of sweet nothings
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