The Lovely Bones Book Report

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In the beginning of The Lovely Bones, Susie Salmon (The Main Character) decided to take a shortcut through a corn field next to her neighborhood to get to her house faster because it was snowing out. Little did she know that one of her neighbors (Mr. Harvey) was there watching her the whole time. When she was walking by his house she was frightened by him because he was there in the dark. He invited to show her a hiding space that he had made underground. Since Susie is very interested in science and engineering she was curious to see what Mr. Harvey had built. As Susie enters the underground hiding space Mr. Harvey tells he to get undressed, she does not want to so Mr. Harvey attacks her and and Susie tries to fight back but she

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