Sebold‚ Alice. The Lovely Bones. New York: Little‚ Brown‚ and company‚ 2002. Print. p. 328 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is a truly different novel. It is told from the perceptive an average fourteen year old girl named Susie Salmon. The one thing that makes Susie unique is that she was raped and murdered and shares her story from Heaven. The beginning of the book is
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Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones starts out by saying “ My name was Salmon‚ like the fish; first name‚ Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6‚ 1973.” The book is narrated by an average teenage girl who was viciously raped and murdered by her next door neighbor. After her dealth is confirmed‚ Susie’s family struggles to cope with the loss of their fourteen year old daughter and sister and all of the unanswered questions about her dealth. Both of Susie’s parents are incapable
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OPENING STEATEMENT I read the book the lovely bones. turns the idea of death and murder upside down. Lovely bones is a serious and compelling read that touches the heart. What touches us is the way the author keeps us fascinated with the murder‚ the family‚ and the life of a 14 year old girl‚ Suzie salmon‚ after her death. NARRATOR The book is written in the perspective of Suzie herself as she watches her family from her heaven. Even years after her murder‚ Suzie watches these people‚ wishing
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The book is called “The Lovely Bones.” The plot of this story is figuring out who murdered Susie. The theme of this novel is murder and mystery. The setting is in a small town in Pennsylvania. Here are multiple things that are the same or different from the book over to the movie are these things; One‚ there are less emotional scenes throughout the movie there were plenty more in the book. Second‚ the book depicts a lot of graphic details murders. Third‚ throughout the book there is a lot of suspense
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The Lovely Bones The Lovely Bones‚ was originally a mind-thrilling novel written by Alice Sebold. Then it was turned into a major motion picture in 2009 directed by Peter Jackson starring; Rachel Weisz‚ Susan Sarandon‚ Mark Wahlburg‚ Stanley Tucci‚ and Saoirse Ronan. The movie starts off heavy and dramatic. Harvey played by Stanley Tucci is a serial killer that lives right next door to the victim‚ Susie. He lured the young and naïve 14-year-old girl into a secret “hiding place” and refused to let
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character’s in Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones‚ are strongly characterized and bring qualities that we‚ as readers‚ can relate to and understand‚ helping us to empathize with the family and Susie. There is one character however‚ that of George Harvey‚ Susie’s rapist and muderer‚ who is purposefully characterized in a way that most members of society could not begin to understand. Cruel‚ calculating‚ cold and cunning‚ Mr Harvey is the very symbol of evil in The Lovely Bones and helps to show the audience
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The book The Lovely Bones is about a young girl named Susie Salmon that was murdered at the age of fourteen. Susie is the narrator of the story and she tells her story and watches her family and friends try and catch the killer. But she is having a hard time getting her family’s attention while she is in heaven. She starts to get bored in heaven and depressed and she starts to watch her family fall apart because of her death. The book talks about more of her heaven and how she is not enjoying her
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Plot summary The novel begins with an anecdote‚ used as an epigraph‚ in which Susie recalls her father amusing her as a child by shaking a snow globe with a small penguin inside all by himself. When she worries about the penguin‚ he says‚ "Don’t worry‚ Susie. He’s got a nice life. He’s trapped inside a perfect world." In the opening sentences‚ Susie introduces herself to us and takes us to the date of her death‚ December 6‚ 1973‚ "before kids of all races and genders started appearing on milk cartons
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The Lovely Bones: A Comparison The lovely Bones is a interesting book about a young girl named susie. When one day her life came to an end‚ and her family went downhill. The murder is someone no one expects he can be is always a step ahead. Susie tries to investigate her and others girls deaths. Susie salmon lives in a time where you can leave your door unlocked at night. Her dream was to become a photographer until her life changed for the worst when walking home from school. In the book it states
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which Susie ponders her friends’ and family’s newfound strength after her death: These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections — sometimes tenuous‚ sometimes made at great cost‚ but often magnificent — that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events my death brought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came
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