Mr. Harvey's The Lovely Bones

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 Barbie dolls.”At first no one stopped them, and it was something his mother enjoyed so much the thrill of laughter when they ducked around the corner from whatever store and she uncovered and presented the pilfered item to him”. Mr. Harvey never really had a chance to be a kid his parents had him doing other things.He was born into a family of theft and crime that left him loveless.”He had forced her out of his car, George Harvey sat still as a stone in the back seat he did everything by then slow- mo”. Little George Harvey watched his father kick his mother out of the car and out of his life.Even though Mr. Harvey hasn’t had a good childhood what he’s been doing isn’t okay. …show more content…
Harvey seems like a nice guy when you speak to him but he’s far from it.People in the neighborhood began to lose their animals.They didn’t know if they ran away or were killed.”What I discovered, when I followed Mr. Harvey’s stare to the crawlspace, where these animals that had gone missing for more than a year”.People believed it was someone else has taken their animals but it was Mr. Harvey all along.”He killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child”.Once Mr. Harvey has killed someone he doesn’t go and killed another human being the next day he gives it time.Even though he really wants to he stops himself from that by going to kill animals.Mr. Harvey has killed many times how does he live with this