Heaven is a concept that can only be imagined, there is no proof that it does or does not exist. There are no documents that can describe it, and there is only one way to find out. Alice Sebold, shared her thoughts of heaven through Susie Salmon, a fourteen year old girl who was raped and murdered, in her novel, The Lovely Bones. Sebold's ideas of heaven consist of different stages where every person has …showed first 75 words of 709 total…

…showed last 75 words of 709 total…ever getting the chance to experience it for oneself. Heaven has to be one of the worst places to be stuck in. Susie learned what she wanted and of that what was possible, "I could not have what I most wanted most: Mr. Harvey dead and me living. Heaven wasn't perfect. But I came to believe that if I watched closely, and desired, I might change the lives of those I loved on Earth." (Sebold 20).