If I didn't know this book was fiction, I would believe everything that happened in it, just for future reference if it came up later. This book is about ghosts, death and life, things that are seemingly never understood. This girl, Molly the protagonist, is strong, she wants to use her life until the end, not many can say that. She doesn't care about heaven or hell for herself, only for the others she loved and cared for so much. He wants a full life. Ghost, are there ghosts in your world? Does everyone have ghosts that follow them wherever they go in this world? Are we all trying to leave our ghost to create new lives? Let's go back to our ghost? I don't know if I believed in ghosts before reading this book, but I think I do now. There are just a few ways this book made ghosts seem so real. They seem to be everywhere, wherever we go, no matter what. They will never go away from us, no matter how much we try to hide them. The Spirit does not simply disappear, it remains forever, think of the Holy Spirit who is always there, no matter what. I think they haunt everything we do until we change what we do, I think death looms over us and follows us to our graves. And death is not a thing of the past. Death is everywhere, here and there, more around Molly than anyone has ever seen. Is there a paradise? Is there a hell? If a person does not have a name, he will not go to heaven. All of these seem to be in some way, shape or form, questions through Molly's book or at least her thoughts. Lee Smith wrote "On Agate Hill" at a difficult time in his life. In 2003, he lost his son at the age of thirty-three to acute myocardiopathy, a heart disease. Lee went through a period of deep depression after finding out who I am today. Most people may not like who that person is, but I stand up for the person I am today and being myself, and I don't care about those people who don't like me. It's my life, I'll live it, I might create more ghosts, but that's my problem. Ghosts are a part of life, we just have to deal with it in our own way. Ghosts are how we go through life and death is how we end life, makes a lot of sense to me. Works Cited Cowell, Rebekah. "Interviews with Lee Smith." Interviews with Lee Smith. Independent Weekly, March 24, 2010. Web. May 1, 2014. Formy-Duval, John M. “Lee Smith's On Agate Hill.” About.com Contemporary literature. About.com, 2014. Web. 01 May 2014.Scribd. "On Agate Hill: A Novel." Scribd. Workman Publishing, August 1, 2007. Web. May 1, 2014. Smith, Lee. On Agate Hill: a novel. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin of Chapel Hill, 2006. Electronic.