Jack Harvey Quotes
Jack Salmon plays a very big role in this novel, if not the biggest. He is the loving father of the murdered 14 year old girl Susie Salmon and he wants revenge. Through out the novel Jack portrays most of the 5 stages of grief especially anger. He at the beginning of the Novel The Lovely Bones destroys his large collection of ships in bottles that he built with his daughter.”My heart seized up. He turned and saw all the others, all the years they marked and the hands that held them. His dead fathers, his dead child’s, I watched him as he smashed the rest. Next he seeks revenge, he sees a flash light in the cornfield where Susie was supposedly murdered and he heads out to get George Harvey, who he suspects as the murderer. But it doesn't end
out good for him because he ends up in the hospital. Later in the novel Jack has a heart attack and obviously ends up in the hospital, but this isn't all bad because his wife which he loves very much returns home from California and eventually this brings the family back together. In an interview with Mr. Salmon he says “ all I want is for the killer to be brought to justice”.
out good for him because he ends up in the hospital. Later in the novel Jack has a heart attack and obviously ends up in the hospital, but this isn't all bad because his wife which he loves very much returns home from California and eventually this brings the family back together. In an interview with Mr. Salmon he says “ all I want is for the killer to be brought to justice”.