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• The Lovely Bones is a captivating novel by Alice Sebold that undoubtedly deserves to be included in the literary canon. • Puts a spin on the classic murder-mystery as it is told from the victim’s perspective, Susie Salmon • Telling the story from her own heaven, we gain a personal insight on the diverse range of flawed characters and how they change because of Susie’s death. • The book also features a variety of literary techniques that help to further enrich the story • These factors combined…

A common theme in literature is that of good versus evil. This proves to be true in Alice Sebold’s novel, The Lovely Bones. While it might be hard to imagine any good coming from the story of a brutal rape and murder of a fourteen year old girl, there are moments in the novel that illustrate this battle between good and evil. From the very beginning of the story, we are introduced to good in a young Susie and also to evil in Mr. Harvey. The cruelty with which Mr. Harvey treats this young…

People grieve in different ways, when they have been hit with a tragedy. The novel, “The Lovely Bones,” by Alice Sebold, teaches us this similar lesson. By seeing the characters go through denial, anger, and acceptance, the author shows us how the Salmon family comes to accept the death of their daughter and no longer allow her passing to tear the family apart. All of the characters in the book “The Lovely Bones” experience denial in one way or another. Abigail Salmon, Susie’s mother feels…

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…

The Lovely Bones The book I read was The Lovely Bones, written by Alice Sebold. The book was published in 2002, and is 328 pages. In 2009, Dreamworks production company released a movie based on the book. The Lovely Bones is based on a true story. The book and movie are similar, but the movie dodged many details with it’s fast paced intake. It was set in the suburbs of Pennsylvania, in December of 1973. On December 6, 1973, Susie Salmon was murdered by her neighbor, George Harvey. Mr.…

Key Ideas and Details Questions 1.When she was 18, Alice Sebold was raped by a stranger. Though this was not her reason for writing The Lovely Bones, her experiences did contribute to Susie Salmon’s character. “Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.” (Sebold 186). Through Susie…

Megan Skolmen 22/04/15 The Lovely Bones Novel By Alice Sebold Published 2002 I read a crippling, chilling novel called The Lovely Bones, written by Alice Sebold. It is a novel that explores many important ideas including morality, love, violence, the supernatural, family and time. The story foretells the perspective of fourteen year old Susie Salmon, who was brutally raped and murdered by her neighbour George Harvey. She tells her story from her view from heaven, as she watches her…

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…

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…

The Lovely Bones She was murdered at the age of 14 on December 6, 1973. Mr. Harvey had led her to the hutch that he had made her. She went into the hutch to check it out, but then wanted to go home. He wouldn’t let her leave so she tried to escape the hutch but wasn’t able to make it out! He raped her and killed her on the night that she went missing. The strongest symbols that helped develop the story The Lovely Bones are the cornfield, the pompom hat, and the charm bracelet. The…