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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 Lovely Bones
In Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones, the character George Harvey is the antagonist in the story. He is a 36-year-old sexual predator, a serial killer, and a rapist. He has raped and murdered...
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The Lovely Bones
First, you should define "setting," which refers to the time and place of a narrative. The Lovely Bones focuses on Susie's murder, which occurs on December 6, 1973, and its aftermath. Next,...
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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
How you conclude your essay about Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones really depends on how you start it and what you say about it in the intervening body paragraphs. There are many different...
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The Lovely Bones
What a great question! In first looking at the two novels, there might not seem to be many common themes, but there are. In fact, there are at least two: the theme of secrecy and the theme of...
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The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is a haunting story which is told from the point of view of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon who was raped and killed by a serial killer who lived just down the...
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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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Brave New World
im as well doing the brave new world i believe that lenina would be a close one my english teacher compared those too books together ok thank you
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The Lovely Bones
Samuel and Lindsey return home because they are getting married and they can’t wait to tell everyone. After Lindsey graduates from college, she is glad to be done. Samuel and Lindsey are riding...
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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
Unfortunately, the police never apprehends 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...
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The Lovely Bones
The answer is one very important word: closure. Although underestimated at times, closure is the final and the most transcendental moment that completes the grieving process. It is a most...
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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
One technique is the imagery Sebold uses to help readers understand Susie's heaven and what she sees on earth from heaven. (families grief etc)
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The Lovely Bones
This is a very broad question (and essay topic), so the first place to start is by narrowing down your ideas. Instead of writing a thesis statement for you, I usually help students get started on...
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The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones is set in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania. This is a time that Susie Salmon describes as follows, This was before kids of all races and genders started appearing on milk cartons or...
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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
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
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
It is very common for serial killers to experiment with killing animals before they move on to humans, or kill animals when they do not have access to humans. Killing animals is actually part of...
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The Lovely Bones
Well, to start things off, I will say that Lindsey is probably one of my favorite characters in the novel, largely because of how she is presented. Each character grows and matures in their own...
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The Lovely Bones
The book uses the supernatural, interesting elements of point of view, and some strong characterization. I would focus on how the unique point of view helps convey a significant theme of the...
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The Lovely Bones
This is Mrs Dye. You will recieve a 0 on your essay. Thank you for cheating.
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The Lovely Bones
You asked about details. I think it's easy to get carried away with the supernatural elements of the crime. However it is just as important that the story is basically about love. Love transcends...
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The Lovely Bones
I never really got the individual v. society from the novel. For me, the predominant message was that of never giving up. But, now that the point as been raised, I can see it. The posters have...
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The Lovely Bones
This is an interesting question, and one that I would answer by refering to the end of the story and the eventual fate of Mr. Harvey. The message of the story concerning justice seems to be that...
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The Lovely Bones
I have included a link below to the enotes page outlining the biography of Alice Sebold, which should help you investigate her life further. The short answer to this question is that yes, it was....
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The Lovely Bones
I think this is a statement that can easily be supported with reference to this excellent novel and in particular, the way that the author has chosen to narrate the tale from the perspective of a...
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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...
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The Lovely Bones
It is clear that, as the novel progresses and Susie's father becomes ever-more frustrated by his increasing certainty that George Harvey committed the murder but without any evidence to prove it,...
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The Lovely Bones
Let me chime in with some tidbits in reference to your question starters... *Favorite moments: I loved the section about the photograph of Suzie's mother... how she could tell from that facial...
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The Lovely Bones
I had to edit your original question as it infringed enotes regulations on what an acceptable question is. Enotes only allows you to ask one question at a time. Please remember this in future. I...
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The Lovely Bones
If I had to answer this question, I would want to focus on the two central characters of both of these texts and the way that the novel and the film charts their development, maturity and...
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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
Whenever you are asked a question like this it is vitally important to begin by looking at the quote that is referred to in context and then to try and relate it to the theme or message of the...
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The Lovely Bones
This title is first applied to Jack Salmon by the police in Chapter Eleven, which charts the way that the police, and in particular Len Fenerman, become increasingly concerned about the way in...
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The Lovely Bones
Thank you tafankareem! I was thinking from the perspective that it follows the common 'serial killer' portrait with the glasses and moustache. Anyway, I did say it was random lol:D
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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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The Lovely Bones
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
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's always good to ask questions that are open-ended, meaning there isn't a simple "yes" or "no" answer. You and your friends should have to support your response with your own opinions or...
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The Lovely Bones
In her memoir Lucky, Sebold recounts her being raped while a college student. While she, of course, survives unlike Susie in The Lovely Bones, the books do have some similarities. 1. Sebold like...
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The Lovely Bones
The theme of death comes to mind for both of these books. Each protagonist reacts to death in their own way. The Book Thief uses Death as the point of view. In The Lovely Bones, we see death and...
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The Lovely Bones
The fact that the second sentence says "I was fourteen wen I was murdered on December 6, 1973"
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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
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
For the most part, Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones is set in a suburban area near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This setting is important to the novel, since the location of the Salmon family's...
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The Lovely Bones
Susie often helped her father with his hobby of building ships in a bottle. When she dies, he destroys them. In this quote, Susie is remembering how they worked together on the shipbuilding. The...
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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...