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The Lovely Bones By Alice Sebold
This week I read the lovely bones by Alice Sebold. The book begins to tell us about a girl named Susie who is kidnapped and killed by her neighbor Mr.Harvey. Once she is in heavan she can desire anything she wants and it will come true, susie says "We had been given, in our heavens, our simplest dreams." The heavan that is created is intended to be peaceful and calming. As the reading goes on Susie is able to see and hear anything she wants to on earth. Susie can see her family and friends trying to cope with her death and how much of a struggle it has been on them (which ends up breaking the family apart). You can tell that Susie wants so badly to reach out to her family in some way to help them cope and find her murderer but is unable to

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