The Lovely Bones Research Paper

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Narrative Perspective Sebold writes her novel The Lovely Bones in first person perspective to portray the story of the protagonist, Susie. The protagonist tells the story of how she was murdered and what happened in her point of view: “My murderer was a man from my neighbourhood.” (page 2) Being written in first person perspective, it impacts the text because all the ideas are explored in one person’s point of view, Susie’s. This creates a lot of bias instantly as obviously Susie is angry about being killed and only her side of the story is told, as well as because we are made to feel sympathy for her as shes the victim. She is speaking from heaven, she sees her happy family devastated by her death, “After a few days in heaven…” This is significant