Farewell, My Lovely

Susie Salmon death, at the age of 14, had a great impact on the lives of her family members. In the book The Lovely Bones Susie was raped and killed in a gruesome way by Mr. Harvey. Jack dealt with the situation in a horrible way, because he was always depressed. He never liked to expressed his feelings, while Grandma Lynn was the complete opposite. She was the person that brought everyone's spirits up when everyone was depressed. Jack and Abigail had two different reactions to Susie's death and…

1. Plot Summary The story of The Lovely Bones begins on December 6, 1973. Susie Salmon, the narrator, has been raped and murdered by her neighbor, George Harvey, and is telling the story from her Heaven. Harvey has lured Susie into a cornfield where he commits his crime, leaving behind only an elbow as evidence. He has a plan to dispose of her body, so he “[takes] the waxy orange sack of [her] remains to a sinkhole eight miles from [their] neighborhood,” where he knows they will disappear…

Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones, uses her personal life experiences to create the life, death, and afterlife of Susie Salmon. As a child, Sebold’s household was exasperating and she endured many grievances, having to reduce to comedic ways of handling situations, often in her writing (Humphrey, Theodore). “Near the end of her freshman year, she was attacked while walking back to her dormitory on the evening of the last day of school for the year. She struggled with her assailant, but…

sings a song of hope and cheer there’s no more pain, no more fear. You’ll see her in the clouds above, hear her whisper words of love, you’ll be together before long, until then listen for her song. ~Unknown When one is told about the book “The Lovely Bones” the number one problem people have with the book is that how gruesome, violent, and how hard it was for them to get past the first 3 chapters; the first three chapters pertain to the murder of a young girl named Susie. However, maybe what…

In her story, The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold illustrates the idea of dealing with grief by forcing the reader to suffer with Susie and her broken family. The death of a loved one can sometimes cause a person to experience the five stages of grief, and as a result, the person accepts loss and moves on. As Susie remains in the “in-between”, the five stages of grief are shown through each member of Susie’s family throughout the story as they try to cope with the tragedy of her death. Jack Salmon,…

My mom Angela has always loved reading ever since she was a little kid. She is not the only one in my family that enjoys reading. My dad, grandma, and my cousin also have found a love for reading books. When I received this assignment I knew it would be difficult to single out a specific person to interview due to my family’s love of reading. I eventually decided that I wanted to interview my mom for my assignment. My mom was the pretty much the obvious choice to do the interview with because I…

"The Lovely Bones is a heartbreaking page-turner. I envy the reader who is about to jump into the world of Susie Salmon and her incredible family.- Aimee Bender, author of An Invisible Sign of My Own. The Story starts off with Susie walking home from school, except this time she took a shortcut. Susie was making her way through the broken corn stalks that made her walk more difficult. When she comes across Mr Harvey, one of her neighbors.Mr. Harvey wanted to show her, his little hiding place. So…

Sickness is, through the events of Ward’s Salvage the Bones, a recurring theme: Esch realises that she is pregnant and gets sick because of it; and Daddy loses his fingers, getting sick too. Salvage the Bones is a novel set in the mid 2000’s during the previous days before Hurricane Katrina. During Salvage the Bones, illness creates difficulties both in long term and short term that disrupt the family, but after the family overcomes these illnesses, the family becomes stronger. During the…

Every story has a purpose. The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold is a book about a girl named Susie Salmon and her family. The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold, was converted into a movie, directed by Peter Jackson. The book and movie are different, that’s why you should read the book first and then see the movie. And since they are different, they have two different themes. The theme of The Lovely Bones, written by Alice Sebold is family and the theme of The Lovely Bones, directed by Peter Jackson is…

"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." (Sebold 1). The Novel The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is a story of a young fourteen-year-old girl named Susie. In this novel, Susie is raped and murdered leading to a great amount of grief for her and the people around her. Similarly, whenever Sebold was a young woman in college, she was raped leading to traumatic experiences along with being told she was “lucky to be alive” since…