Lovely Bones Essay

Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is about a young girl named Susie Salmon in Pennsylvania who is raped and murdered by her neighbor Mr. Harvey on December 6, 1973 and watches her family and friends cope with her untimely death. Susie has a family of five, her included. Abigail, Jack, Lindsey, and Buckley. One day as she is walking home on her own, Mr. Harvey convinces her to come inside a hole he made in a cornfield. “It’s dark Susie,” he said. (3) When she is in the hole he says, “‘Take your clothes off,’…‘I want to see if you’re still a virgin.’” She is startled and tried to get away, but he holds her down. This is when he rapes her, taking her life away. She is surprised to how personalized Heaven is. Everything she is fond of is in her heaven and she could create more things she likes if she really desires it and knows why she desires it. Susie decides …show more content…
Lindsey, Buckley, Jack, and Abagail all had their way of handling Susie’s death. Whether they handled it the wrong or right, they found a way to get over her death. While they will forget her, they were able to stop mourning and move on. This is the same in our present day. Loved ones will die; however, we must find a way to handle it and move on. No matter how hard it was on us. In addition, the world will iron out the wrinkles caused by your deaths, eventually. Eventually is a big part of this because it will not be right away. In the book, Susie’s murderer Mr. Harvey went at least 10 years of living a convict responsible for the deaths of seven women, Susie’s included. He finally got what he was deserving for their deaths when he tried to murder another and an icicle fell on him. Knocking him out and causing him to fall in a ravine full of snow. Even though death of a loved one is hard, people will find a way to move on and the world will iron out the wrinkles caused by your deaths,