Abstract Alice Sebold, the author of The Lovely Bones, is regarded as one of the newly-rising stars and the most potential writers in the 21st century. The Lovely Bones, her representative novel, was published in 2002. Focusing on the huge shift and intention course of the whole family after the death of Susie, the novel explains how they gradually overcome their trauma and begin their new life after suffering from the traumatic loss. Through textual analysis, this thesis centers around Susie’s father Jack, who has the most obvious suffering and change.
The thesis is made up of five parts. The first part briefly introduces the author Alice Sebold and the novel The Lovely Bones, literature review on this novel both at home and abroad, theoretical framework applied in the thesis as well as the originality and structure of the thesis. The second part focuses on the traumatic symptoms of Father Jack when he heard the sad news, including his attitudes towards his past, present and future. Part three discusses and analyses what he suffers from and how he feels in the healing process. This part highlights how he gradually confronts the reality and slowly goes from the trauma to the recovery. Part four understands and explores his balanced state after the recovery from the trauma. This part is also about his different attitudes towards his past, present and future, forming a contrast to his traumatic symptoms. The last part is a conclusion of the thesis which restates the thesis statement and major findings.41040
Key Words: The Lovely Bones trauma recovery changing process
摘要艾丽斯西伯德被世人认为是21世纪小说界的新星和最有潜力的小说家。其代表作《可爱的骨头》发表于2002年。小说聚焦于苏茜一家人在经历灾难后所遭受的巨变和心路历程，阐述了他们如何在十年的精神折磨后，一步步地克服创伤，走上崭新的生活。本文采用文本分析的方法，聚焦于死者苏茜的父亲——杰克，围绕这个在突如其来的灾难到来时感受最深刻、受到的影响最广泛的“受害者”。
本论文由五部分组成。第一部分导论主要是概述作者和小说，对小说的国内外研究现状进行综述，阐释本论文所运用的创伤理论，以及对本论文的创造性、意义以及结构的介绍。第二部分探讨死者父亲在意外灾难到来后的反应，研究其在事件发生初期的创伤特征，重点包括对过去、现在和未来持有的不同态度。第三部分深入探讨与剖析在得知女儿死亡后的将近十年的时间里，他经历了些什么样的遭遇，发生了什么样的转变，体会到了什么样的感受，从而重点引出他是如何一步步地走出女儿死亡的伤痛，逐渐地开始正视现实。第四部分分析并探索杰克在从创伤走向治愈与修复后又达到了一个什么样的平衡状态，重点包括他对于过去、现在和未来态度的一个质的转变。最后一部分主要是对本论文的一个总结，重述论文的论点和主要发现。
毕业论文关键词：《可爱的骨头》 创伤 修复 转变过程
Contents
Abstract i
摘 要 ii
Contents iii
Introduction 1
Chapter One The Traumatic Symptoms of Father Jack 6
Chapter Two Healing Process 11
Chapter Three Recovering from the Trauma 18
Conclusion 23
Works Cited 25
Analysis on the Trauma and Recovery of Jack Salmon in The Lovely Bones
Introduction
Alice Sebold, the author of The Lovely Bones, is regarded as one of the newly-rising stars and the most potential writers in 21st century. 艾丽斯西伯德《可爱的骨头》杰克创伤修复转变过程:http://www.751com.cn/yingyu/lunwen_40969.html