The Lovely Bones Research Paper

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The “Lovely Bones” is a book and movie, written by Alice Sebold. The Narrator, Susie “Like the fish” Salmon. The book and the movie are both similar but have differences in some parts. The movie has less information than the book and leaves out scenes that the book has. Which the parts that the movie leaves out are some big parts in the book.

The book has bigger and better scenes that make a big differences, and the parts should be in the movie as well. Example would be, Susie’s father gets beat up in a corn field, with a baseball bat. Her father got beat up pretty bad and while he was in the hospital susie’s mother kisses and has an affair with the detective that is on susie’s case. In the movie it switches it all up and susie’s mother leaves

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