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The Lovely Bones

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The Lovely Bones The book “The Lovely Bones” is a book created by Alice Sebold that tells the story about a young girl named Susie Salmon who was tragically raped and murdered in her home town. The book follows the perspective of Susie looking down on earth from heaven. Susie watches how the world goes on without her. How her family is in shambles, her friends moving forward, the surroundings that she took for granted, and her murderer who lives on day by day. The story delves into the daily lives of her family and of a strange unpopular girl that was the first and last person to see Susie as a ghost. It also goes on to reveal the police work concluded during her investigation and her murderer’s life during and after the crucial incident. …show more content…

On this day she decided to take a shortcut through the cornfield to get home in the quickest manner possible. While Susie explains that the cornfield does not have many people that go near them because the corn itself is not edible she is surprised by Mr. Harvey. “’It’s after dark, Susie, “ he said. I wish now that I had known this was weird. I had never told him my name. I guess I thought my father had told him one of the embarrassing anecdotes he saw merely as loving testaments to his children…….But as it turned out, my father had not mentioned us to Mr. Harvey or told him the Susie-peed-on-Lindsey story.’” Susie explains this is the first and last meeting that had happened face to face with Mr. Harvey, her …show more content…

Harvey about visiting his dug-out. In her conversation, talk of her mother waiting for her made her change her mind about going with Mr. Harvey. Before she could leave him, Mr. Harvey had made an unfortunate change of events for Susie. ‘”I don’t know why you think you’re leaving."….…He made me feel icky and icky now that he was blocking the door. "Mr. Harvey, I really have to get home." "Take off your clothes." "What?" "Take your clothes off," Mr. Harvey said. "I want to check that you’re still a virgin. ""I am, Mr. Harvey," I said."I want to make sure. Your parents will thank me.” "My parents?" "They only want good girls," he said. "Mr. Harvey, "I said, "please let me leave." "You aren’t leaving, Susie. You’re mine now. "…….… I fought hard. I fought as hard as I could not to let Mr. Harvey hurt me, but my hard-as-I-could was not hard enough, not even close, and I was soon lying down on the ground, in the ground, with him on top of me panting and sweating, having lost his glasses in the struggle. I was so alive then. I thought it was the worst……….’” Susie’s dialog explains how she felt during the time of the attack, but it also demonstrates that Mr. Harvey could have had some experience with what he was doing. These were some of the last feelings she had before she

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