In the story Susie is left in a void where she can not
move forward nor backward. She has some things that have been left undone and one that
is mentioned is her desire to have kissed. She has never had her first kiss. She was
taken away by the man who killed her. In order for her to move forward and to give her
that one special part of the transition from childhood into adolescence the author used
the kiss as the representation of the transition.
For Susie
the kiss was also a transition form the earthly things that she had to leave behind to
the process of letting go which would enable her to go to her real heaven and not just
the temporary place. By allowing Susie to be in Ruth's body, she could have access to
the final things that kept her earth bound.
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