The book I chose to read for this assignment was The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. I’ve read this book a few times and it is one of my favorites. The story is about a 14 year old girl named Susie, who is brutally raped and murdered by her neighbor, Mr. Harvey. Mr. Harvey lures Susie into a secret little room that he created by digging a hole in the cornfield. Susie, being polite, follows Mr. Harvey, but then senses that there is something very wrong going on. When she tries to leave, Mr. Harvey rips off her clothes and rapes her. After he rapes her, he kills her, cuts up her body, and puts the pieces in a bag. Later, he puts the bag in a safe and then takes it to a sinkhole in hopes that her body is never found.
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Several years after Susie’s death, Abigail leaves the family and goes to California. At that point, Susie’s grandmother, Lynn, moves in to help the family. Susie’s sister, Lindsey, also becomes obsessed with Mr. Harvey and even goes as far as to break into his house to look for clues. She finds a drawing of the hole that he killed Susie in. Lindsey can’t look for more clues because Mr. Harvey arrives home and calls the police. That night, Mr. Harvey leaves town and it is then that Detective Fenerman realizes that he should have looked at Mr. Harvey more closely when investigating the murder.
As all of this is going on, Susie is watching from heaven. It seems as though as Susie continues to watch, her family cannot move on completely. The main conflict of the story is the investigation into Susie’s murder. The murder is never officially solved, but everyone in the story is confident that it was Mr. Harvey that killed Susie. The story is clearly about death, but the great part about the story is the way Sebold expresses that everyone deals with grief differently and in his or her own …show more content…
Everyone deals with death in different ways. Thankfully, I have not lost many people very close to me. My best friend passed away when I was 15 and I had a really hard time getting over it. I would always feel guilty that if I became close with new friends, I was betraying her in a way. The great thing about this book is that it gives you hope that if your loved ones are really watching over you, they want you to move on and enjoy your life. This book gave me a different outlook on death. It is ok to move on and be happy again. We should never forget the people we love that have passed on. We should do our best to keep those memories alive. But, by grieving and being happy again, we are not betraying our loved on. After all, they would want us to be
Susie watches her family …show more content…
Several years after Susie’s death, Abigail leaves the family and goes to California. At that point, Susie’s grandmother, Lynn, moves in to help the family. Susie’s sister, Lindsey, also becomes obsessed with Mr. Harvey and even goes as far as to break into his house to look for clues. She finds a drawing of the hole that he killed Susie in. Lindsey can’t look for more clues because Mr. Harvey arrives home and calls the police. That night, Mr. Harvey leaves town and it is then that Detective Fenerman realizes that he should have looked at Mr. Harvey more closely when investigating the murder.
As all of this is going on, Susie is watching from heaven. It seems as though as Susie continues to watch, her family cannot move on completely. The main conflict of the story is the investigation into Susie’s murder. The murder is never officially solved, but everyone in the story is confident that it was Mr. Harvey that killed Susie. The story is clearly about death, but the great part about the story is the way Sebold expresses that everyone deals with grief differently and in his or her own …show more content…
Everyone deals with death in different ways. Thankfully, I have not lost many people very close to me. My best friend passed away when I was 15 and I had a really hard time getting over it. I would always feel guilty that if I became close with new friends, I was betraying her in a way. The great thing about this book is that it gives you hope that if your loved ones are really watching over you, they want you to move on and enjoy your life. This book gave me a different outlook on death. It is ok to move on and be happy again. We should never forget the people we love that have passed on. We should do our best to keep those memories alive. But, by grieving and being happy again, we are not betraying our loved on. After all, they would want us to be