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The Lovely Bones
It is always difficult to trace how much fiction is impacted by fact or real events. Alice Sebold, the author of The Lovely Bones, was assaulted and raped. Later it emerged that the man that raped...
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The Lovely Bones
No. Towards the end of the book, the reader is led to believe her body is about to be discovered when Ruth and Ray are near the landfill where Susie's body was dumped. But the bones never are found...
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The Lovely Bones
George Harvey is eventually suspected of being a serial killer, which he is, but he is never caught or punished for the crime. There was never enough definitive proof to arrest him. At the end of...
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The Lovely Bones
Many of the themes within Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones are intertwined. This interconnection of the themes, then, speak to the message of the novel. The themes of the novel are loss and...
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The Lovely Bones
Harvey killed Susie Salmon who soon after ascended to heaven and was watching everything unfold on earth including the investigation into her murder. Harvey's psychological issues and murderous...
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The Lovely Bones
Susie's body was cut into pieces and put into a garbage bag, then taken to the murderer's house, where it left a stain on the floor. The murderer then placed Susie's body in a metal safe, locked...
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The Lovely Bones
The torturous and murderous Mr. Harvey cuts up young Suzie's body with a knife. He dismembers her in order to hide her body. The rape and murder of Suzie is made all the more horrific by the...
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The Lovely Bones
On page 8 of my version of this book, which is the ebook, Mr Harvey instructs Susie to take her clothes off. This, he says, is so that he can check if she is still a virgin. Rather than obeying...
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The Lovely Bones
He does know. He can't prove it. Susie's dad knows from the way George Harvey looks at him, and Harvey's manner when Susie's dad helps Harvey build the tent. One of the themes of the book is how...
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The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold became inspired to write The Lovely Bones from two different instances. The first instance, is her own horrible experience having been a victim of a brutal rape during her college...
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The Lovely Bones
Apart from a very significant literary allusion, I am guessing that it was the writer of the screenplay for The Lovely Bones that wrote the poem you speak of (because Alice Sebold does not include...
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The Lovely Bones
The title of the novel has thematic significance pertaining to the theme of grief. The bones are “lovely” because they are what remain of the narrator who was deeply loved by and loved and...
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The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold'sThe Lovely Bonescould be read as a study in transformation caused by tragedy. The novel relates in first person the death and the afterlife of the narrator, 14-year old Susie Salmon;...
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The Lovely Bones
Yes, he does die. At the very end of the book, Harvey falls into a ravine (a narrow gully with steep sides) after he's hit by the falling icicle,and snow covers his body. This can only mean that...
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The Lovely Bones
The title is significant as it refers to Susie Salmon, the young fourteen-year-old girl who is brutally raped, murdered, and dismembered in the book. The bones for which her family and the police...
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The Lovely Bones
Unfortunately, the police never apprehend Susie’s attacker, Mr. Harvey, but that doesn't mean he lives a long, happy life. Susie, observing her family from heaven, watches as her grows old living...
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We are limited for space, so I'm going to focus on just one or two characters. However, first lets establish that all the characters are able to travel through all 5 stages of grief by the end of...
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Mr. Harvey (Susie Salmon's killer) dies on page 327 of the very last chapter called "Bones" (the only chapter with a verbal instead of a numerical name); however, it is not the fact that he dies...
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The Lovely Bones
The main difference between the novel The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and filmmaker Peter Jackson's adaptation for the screen lies in the portrayal of the world of heaven experienced by the main...
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The answer to this question can be found in Chapter Two of this great novel. This, of course, occurs directly after the brutal murder of Susie by Mr. Harvey in his structure that he had built in...
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The Lovely Bones
If you do not let her watch PG 13 movies then I would say it is too early to let her read the book. The Lovely Bones is an incredible book but many times there are more graphic images and concepts...
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The Lovely Bones
Two conflicts occur in the main character herself: her inability to overcome her desire to live and experience key situations, to resolve herself to the fact that it's over; and, her frustration...
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The Lovely Bones
When examining figurative language, keep in mind that it is writing that the author does not intend for you to take literally. Figurative language adds depth and beauty to the author's story. In...
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The Lovely Bones
Jack couldn't stand the thought of letting Susie go, and Abigail couldn't stand the thought of being haunted by her forever. Jack became consumed with trying to find Susie's killer, which resulted...
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The Lovely Bones
One of the techniques that is used by Sebold in this very different tale is that of combining foreshadowing and flashback. On the whole, the narrative follows a traditional plot structure, however,...
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The Lovely Bones
One of the fascinating aspects of this novel is the way in which it presents us with a whole gamut of different reactions to death. Whilst Jack becomes obsessed with finding his daughter's...
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The Lovely Bones
A metaphor is a comparison that does not use the words "like" or "as." Here are some metaphors from The Lovely Bones. 1) I knew he was going to kill me. I did not realize then that I was an animal...
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The Lovely Bones
Of course, what is fascinating about this novel is that the central protagonist is actually dead and looking down on the action from her heaven. However, we can tell from the way that she is...
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In my opinion, Harvey is an evil man. From what Susie observes of his childhood, we know that his mother's having "abandoned" him (it's not clear to me whether she ran away or whether the father...
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The Lovely Bones
Susie and her father had made the ships in a bottle together, and they are a reminder to him of her death. Jack, Susie's father, looks at the snow globes and the bottles with ships inside as...
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The Lovely Bones
One of the major themes in Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones has to do with the power of love to guide the process of grieving and healing. When the novel opens, the reader learns immediately that...
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The Lovely Bones
In Chapter 11, readers learn that Mr. Harvey kept the bodies of animals he'd killed hidden in his crawlspace. In Chapter 14, readers see that he keeps an odd sketchbook. In Chapter 15, though, we...
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The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold’s intention on writing “The Lovely Bones” was to let the reader know that ordinary human connections are tricky and complicated, but it is exactly these connections that make us human....
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The Lovely Bones
Like the keystone state charm, Susie is the keystone of the family and when she is murdered her family starts falling apart. Jack retreats into his study and obsesses with finding out who killed...
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The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold's critically acclaimed 2002 novel The Lovely Bones, about a young girl named Susie who is murdered, was adapted by Peter Jackson into the 2009 film of the same name. The setting of the...
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The Lovely Bones
Susie Salmon's heaven is an amalgamation of her own dreams and wishes as told by Alice Sebold. It is in no way the "traditional" image of heaven (with angels, pearly gates, and clouds). Susie's...
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The Lovely Bones
Great question! There are a number of social issues in just about every book out there. Some social issues include bullying, obesity, divorce, moving, unemployment, death and yes, grief. A social...
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The Lovely Bones
It's summertime in chapter 10 of The Lovely Bones. Ruth, Samuel, and Lindsay are attending the statewide Gifted Symposium, a retreat for bright children from the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades....
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The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones is realistic because its characters grapple with grief in "unheroic" ways. Jack Salmon becomes almost obsessed with finding Susie's murderer; and rather than...
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The Lovely Bones
Abigail leaves her family for seven years to take care of herself. She walks out in 1975. She is profoundly unhappy and has deep grief and guilt over Susie's death. "Her need to find...
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The Lovely Bones
In Sebold's The Lovely Bones, the main character Susie Salmon changes as she learns to accept her death and lets her family get on with living. When the novel opens, the reader immediately learns...
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The Lovely Bones
In my opinion, one of the greatest discrepancies between the novel and the movie is the manner in which each portrays Susie's heaven. The movie included many scenes that were not included in the...
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The Lovely Bones
Susie narrates her tale from Heaven; she was killed and left buried in a frozen field. If you mean the actual state where she lived when she was alive, I don't believe Sebold ever says exactly....
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The Lovely Bones
The antagonist is George Harvey, the neighbor who rapes and kills Susie. An antagonist is a villain, or a bad guy. The antagonist presents a conflict for the protagonist. In this case, the...
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The Lovely Bones
The first noteworthy literary element in The Lovely Bones is probably the point-of-view. First person limited or third person omniscient are two of the most common perspectives from which novels...
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The Lovely Bones
In my opinion, one of the first indications that the family is using isolation to cope manifests itself in their isolation from Susie's room: Already my private territory had become a no man's...
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The Lovely Bones
Susie's mother, Abigail Salmon, can be used as an example of both internal and external conflicts. Abigail struggles internally with dissatisfaction with her life. She loves her husband and...
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The Lovely Bones
In The Lovely Bones, George Harvey is characterized as an odd man in terms of his personality, but on the outside he appears to be just a normal man. Mr. Harvey is a quiet, unassuming neighbor who...
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The Lovely Bones
It is a simile. The reason is because two nouns are being compared using the words "is like". If it were a metaphor, it would simply say that horror IS a flower or IS a sun.
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The Lovely Bones
The answer to this question can be found in the chapter entitled "Snapshots." Up until this stage, Abigail is a woman who is presented as being haunted by her dead daughter and increasingly...
