The Lovely Bones Chapter 16: Snapshots Quotes
The Lovely Bones Chapter 16: Snapshots Quotes
How we cite the quotes:
Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote 1
"Once upon a time there was a kid named Billy. He liked to explore. He saw a hole and went inside but never came out. The End." (16: Snapshots.45)
Buckley is working out the idea of death through art. He's also showing that he knows the details of what happened to Susie. Jack doesn't put it together though and puts the picture on the fridge with the drawing of the Inbetween. We can really see the depth of the pain of the family at that moment.
Quote 2
Woosh and you can start over again. Or was life more like the horrible game in gym that has you running from one side of an enclosed space to another, picking up and setting down wooden blocks without end? (16: Snapshots.73)
Abigail's vision of what life might be about, sound a lot like Sisyphusian Hades (Sisyphus being the guy who has to keep rolling the boulder up the hill for all eternity). What do you think Abigail's vision of life looks like at the point we leave her in the book?