Outside the hospital, a young girl who was selling small bouquets of daffodils, their green stems tied with lavender ribbons. I watched as my mother bought out the girl's whole stock. Nurse Eliot, who remembered my mother from eight years ago volunteered to help her when she saw her comng down the hall, her arms full of flowers. She rounded up extra water pitchers from a supply closet and together, she and my mother filled them with water and placed the flowers around my father's room while he slept. Nurse Eliot thought that if loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman, my mother had grown even more beautiful.( The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold) . Alice Sebold
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You can't get to a certain point in life without being faced with difficult experiences. Alice Sebold was only seven when her father died. In The Lovely Bones Sebold tells us about her father’s accident and how he dies from a heart attack after a serious car accident. Sebold's mother, who is a nurse, goes to his room and fills a metal pitcher with water and places the flowers around his bed.

When she brings the pitcher back to the nurses station, another nurse asks her why she didn’t get a vase for her father’s flowers. Sebold describes how this other nurse took the pitcher from her and said “What do you want this for? You should have gotten a vase.” This passage shows that it is okay to fight for what you believe in and for what you love.

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