The Lovely Bones

¨The Lovely Bones¨ novel, which was also made into a movie, was written by Alice Sebold and published in 2002. The novel became a bestseller immediately and definitely sold a million copies. Sebold was inspired to write this because of her own dreadful experience in which she was brutally raped, much like the main character, Susie Salmon. The author used elements of her own situation to help develop the subject of rape, in this case about 14 year old Susie Salmon´s murder. While writing her…

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George Harvey has raped and killed many girls. When he kills Susie Salmon in 1973, an investigation breaks out. No evidence was found regarding his guilt. He got away with yet another murder with no consequences. Even though they never found out who killed Susie, Mr. Harvey didn’t win in the end. His background causes him to hate family love due to his father abandoning him at a young age. He would do anything to tear a family apart. Although it seems he’s achieved the goal of ripping a family…

Family is a very important part of my life. Family was very important to Susie too. Susie was the oldest of her siblings; she had a younger sister, Lindsey, and a younger brother, Buckley. Susie’s family went through a massive tragedy when they lost her. All families are different in almost every way. Things tend to change after they go through a tragedy together. Some families are close and stay close. Some families are close, but grow apart. Some families are not close but they grow close.…

Mr.Harvey is the second most important character in the novel because the book surrounds what he did to Susie, his life, and his past.In the book it tells why Mr. Harvey acts the way he does and does the things to do.Sometimes things happen in life that change you and make you become someone bad.My goal is to get readers to understand Mr. Harvey ways, reasons, and him as a person. Mr. Harvey didn’t have a nice childhood growing up.Most children grew up with others to play with, race cars, and…

In the book and movie “The Lovely Bones” a girl named Susie gets murdered by one of her neighbors in the cornfield. When Susie’s parents go to find her she cannot be found but they do find her hat and a lot of blood. Susie’s parents never find her killer but her dad tries very hard and then he gets some suspicion. There are many differences in the book and the movie. One of the things that are alike is that Susie’s family starts to fall apart. But, in the book, Sausies(sp) mom(,) Abigail(,) has…

The Lovely Bones There are two main themes that are continually being presented throughout the novel “The Lovely Bones”, these themes are grief and hope. This essay will analyze how different individuals from the Salmon family cope with the death of a family member and their way of advancing with their lives. Losing someone close to you is tough, especially if it’s a family member. Abigail Salmon is the mother of Susie that she loses early in the novel. This has affected her actions and way of…

The Lovely Bones, the story of the changing of lives in a family, tells of a horrific period of time in a family's life when their daughter is raped and murdered. It shows how the death of Susie changes them all, including Susie in her afterlife. Considering the affects of grief are different for each person, it is difficult to say for how long the stages can last. For Susie and her family, they don't receive peace for almost ten years. For almost a decade, Susie watches over her family…