What themes do The Lovely Bones and the film of The Motorcycle Diaries have in common?

If I had to answer this question, I would want to focus on the
two central characters of both of these texts and the way that the novel and the film charts
their development, maturity and understanding of their identity. In a sense, both of these texts
concern the journey of their protagonists. Susie has to struggle to accept her death and the way
in which she can only look on life and her family and their struggles as an observer who is
unable to direct or help. Through the course of the novel, she, like her family, are able to
accept that she has moved on. Likewise, in the film, Che Guevara learns so much about himself and
the world through his road trip in South America, particularly about the injustice, poverty and
prejudice that he sees. What is so fascinating about this text is that we see a revolutionary in
the making. He leaves his home in Argentina as a normal young man, with thoughts of earning money
and meeting women. However, through the people that he meets and the experiences that he goes
through, he realises there is a higher calling on his life, and at the end of the film we see his
commitment to revolutionary change.