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Summary
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Lovely Bones, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Justice and Injustice
Tragedy, Grief, Alienation, and Isolation
Love and Sex
Family and Community
Desire and Longing
Summary
Analysis
Susie Salmon recalls a snow globe that, in her childhood, always sat on her father’s desk. Inside the snow globe was a penguin in a striped scarf. Susie often worried about the penguin, because he was alone, but Susie’s father always reassured her that the penguin had a “nice life,” and was “trapped in a perfect world.”
