Quotation marks

Significance/Importance

“The two of us watched the snow autumn gently around the penguin. The penguin was entirely in at that place, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my male parent this, he said, “Don’t concern, Susie ; he has a nice life. He’s trapped in a perfect world.” ( pg3 )

–This quotation mark connects to the subject of the perfect universe ; associating to the Eden that Susie goes to after her decease.

-This quotation mark reveals Susie’s “life” in heaven by linking her to the penguin in the snow Earth ; feels lonely even populating in a perfect universe, which in Susie’s instance, Eden.

-This quotation mark emphasizes the word “trapped” which foreshadows Susie in Eden where she would be trapped in the Inbetween, non allowing spell of her life on Earth.

“I knew he was traveling to kill me. I did non recognize so that I was an carnal already dying.” ( pg4 )

-This quotation mark shows the decease of Susie, and how this force has to a great extent impacted her experience in Eden. Susie could non allow travel of this event and lingers around on Earth because of this violent decease.

-This quotation mark develops the character Mr. Harvey. It shows his interior force and inhuman treatment by demoing how he slaughters adolescent misss like animate beings.

-This quotation mark connects to the subject of force because it shows how Susie was killed by Mr. Harvey.

-It besides develops one of the chief struggles of the novel: the rape/murder of Susie Salmon which was the initial incident that started the full narrative.

“I could non hold what I wanted most: Mr. Harvey dead and me populating. Heaven wasn’t perfect. But I came to believe that if I watched closely, and desired, I might alter the lives of those I loved on Earth.” ( pg20 )

-This quotation mark shows that Eden is non perfect ; non every want of the dead if fulfilled.

-This quotation mark besides demonstrates the subject of non allowing the past spell because Susie still wants to watch over her household and her loved 1s on Earth ; she is declining to bury everything and move on.

-This quotation mark is besides boding the things that Susie will make to her household members subsequently on in the narrative, and shows how her selfish determination of non burying the yesteryear will alter their lives everlastingly.

“He wore his artlessness like a comfy old coat” ( p.26 )

-This quotation mark shows that Mr. Harvey is used to the killing living things and has old experience with slayings. So experient that he learns to set on an guiltless camouflage without experiencing guilty about the things he has done.

-This quotation mark besides shows that Mr. Harvey is a consecutive slayer with tonss of blood on his custodies. It shows that he got off with so many offenses that even he believes his artlessness.

“That manner of losing would intend that I had accepted that I would ne’er be with them once more ; it might sound silly but I didn’t believe it, would non believe it.” ( Pg27 )

-This quotation mark connects to the subject of non burying about the yesteryear because Susie refuses to lose her household. She still believes that she is a populating individual, that she still has the opportunity to populate and turn once more.

-This quotation mark shows Susie’s interior feelings about her decease and her hatred towards Mr. Harvey for taking away her life.

“In the pulling a thick blue line separated the air and the land. In the yearss that followed I watched my household walk back and Forth past that drawing and I became positive that thick bluish line was a existent place- an Inbetween, where heaven’s skyline met Earth’s. I wanted to travel at that place into the cornflower blue of Crayola, the royal, the turquoise, the sky.” ( pg34 )

-This shows the scene of the narrative: the Inbetween. Susie enters the Inbetween universe which she refers to as the “thick blue line”

– This quote contradicts with Susie’s fond regard to Earth because she says that she wants to travel the sky alternatively of being trapped in the Inbetween universe between Eden and Earth.

-This quotation mark besides confirmed Susie’s decease and tells the readers that Susie is able to look down at Earth, at her household.

“That’s how they operated. They didn’t shut down their desire to cognize merely because the odor was bad or the object was excessively unsafe. They hunted. So did I.” ( pg51 )

-In this quotation mark, Susie compared herself to the Canis familiariss in Evensong. She compared Mr. Harvey to the unsafe object. It shows Susie’s finding to run Mr. Harvey down and penalize him with justness.

– This quotation mark besides connects to the subject of non allowing travel because it shows that Susie is still attached to Earth and that she still wants to trail after justness of her slaying and the truth.

“Then, as his consciousness woke, it was as if toxicant seeped in. At first he couldn’t even acquire up. The guilt on him, the manus of God pressing down on him, statingYou were non at that place when your girl needed you.”( pg58 )

-This quotation mark shows the interior guilt of Jack Salmon for non being at that place to salvage his girl when she was murdered ; his guilt was represented with the toxicant that seeps into his blood and witting. It besides shows how the decease of Susie Acts of the Apostless like toxicant ; destructing the full Salmon household.

-In this quotation mark, Jack Salmon besides feels a heavy weight on him as if he was sing the same thing Susie was sing when Mr. Harvey lay on top of her before she was killed.

-This quotation mark is besides suggesting that the God is stating Jack to seek retaliation for his dead girl, every bit good as boding the hereafter when Jack is so brainsick about catching and killing the liquidator.

“What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone. He came to recognize something as he stared at my photo—that it was non me.” ( pg112 )

-In this quotation mark, Ray sinks into the idea of decease and this connects to the subject of loss. The loss of life, the loss of being on Earth, and the loss of a darling household member for the Salmon household.

-This quotation mark uses a exposure of Susie to explicate how she will everlastingly be frozen at the age of 14 ; demoing how exposure can assist with the continuance of memory and besides a cogent evidence of being ; a cogent evidence that Susie was one time alive.

“If you stop inquiring why you were killed alternatively of person else, halt look intoing the vacuity left by your loss, halt inquiring what everyone left on Earth is experiencing, you can be free. Simply put, you have to give up on Earth.” “This seemed impossible to me” ( Pg120 )

-This quotation mark connects to the subject of non allowing the past spell by because it shows Susie declining to travel on from the yesteryear ; she thinks it is impossible for her to halt inquiring why she is dead, inquiring what her household is making and shuting up her slaying instance.

-This is besides boding that Susie will remain around her household members and observe their day-to-day life and it relates to the old quotation mark about how her non allowing travel of Earth would stop up impacting her household members’ lives.

“At 14, my sister sailed off from me into a topographic point I’d ne’er been. Inthewallsof my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.” ( p. 125 )

-This quotation mark is an emotional appealing remark from Susie watching from Eden because it shows one of the grounds why she is non able to travel on: she had an unrealized life where she did non hold a opportunity of falling in love like her sister, and did non hold a opportunity to be loved.

-This quotation mark is besides comparing the two different lives of the two Salmon misss by comparing their sexual life: Susie is raped and killed while Lindsey is volitionally doing out with her fellow. In a manner, Susie is turning along with her sister by watching her every measure in Eden.

“How to perpetrate the perfect slaying was an old game in Eden. I ever chose the icicle: the arm thaws away.” ( p. 125 )

-It is demoing Susie’s soft personality with her choosing to utilize an icicle because it is crisp plenty to frighten Mr. Harvey but non plenty to kill.

-This quotation mark is Susie’s sarcastic attack to her decease: she is already murdered, and yet she is still playing a murdering game in Eden.

This quotation mark besides ironically boding the hereafter when Susie scares Mr. Harvey with an icicle, and he by chance falls into the ravine and dies.

“When I was certain, I would happen a quiet manner, and I would kill him.” ( Pg127 )

-This quotation mark was said by Jack Salmon ( Susie’s father ) , and it shows his finding to seek retaliation for his dead girl.

-It shows his great hatred towards the slayer and besides demoing the strong love of a male parent ; strong plenty to come over moral moralss and strong plenty to get the better of fright of killing person and interrupting the jurisprudence.

“What I think was hardest for me to recognize was that he had tried each clip to halt himself. He had killed animate beings, taking lesser lives to maintain from killing a child.” ( pg131 )

-This quotation mark shows character development for Mr. Harvey in both a positive manner and a negative manner. This is because it shows that he had killed many animate beings from the vicinity and shows the wickedness that he already has.

-It besides shows the witting life inside Mr. Harvey’s head that prevents him from killing kids ( except for Susie. )

“When the dead are done with the life, “Franny said to me, the life can travel on to other things.” “What about the dead? I said. Where do we travel? ” She wouldn’t answer me. ( pg145 )

-This quotation mark connects to the subject of allowing spell of the past because I Franny, the Eden counsellor, is giving Susie advice ; seeking to assist her to complete up her connexions on Earth and allowing her fond regard fly off. This manner, her household could go on on with their lives.

-This quotation mark besides shows the baffled Susie ; she doesn’t know where she belongs ; she is diffident about what she will make after she lets spell of her household.