Lovely Bones By Alice Sebold
Title: Lovely Bones
Author: Alice Sebold
Text Type: Novel
Lovely Bones is a breath taking novel written by Alice Sebold. Through-out the novel Alice is portraying some disturbing and thought provoking ideas such as; Guilt and responsibility, memory, isolation and surviving grief. Lovely bones is a story of a teenage girl Susie Salmon who after been raped beaten and killed by her old neighbour Mr Harvey, watches from the in-between world her family and friends surviving the grief and struggle to move on with their lives while she tries to comprehend her own death.
A character that I found particularly disturbed by was Mr Harvey. “I was aware that Mr Harvey was looking at me strangely. I’d had older men look at me like that since I lost my baby fat.” Mr Harvey sounded just like your average neighbour, he spent a lot of time in his garden, sitting at home reading newspaper and drinking tea, but there was something about him that was weird. The way he would always look over at the Salmon girls, smile and wave to them just didn’t seem right, a lonely 36-year-old man giving teenage girls attention? Some may think he was just being kind …show more content…
She was becoming everything all at once. A woman, a spy a jock. One man alone.” This was one of the major turning points in the novel for the family and Susie. I felt terrified for Susie’s sister and respected the bravery of her live even to go have a look through Susie’s murderers (Mr Harvey) house to find some form of evidence. She ran home and showed her father and grandmother and it gave them some form of hope. They might not have wanted to hear the truth but it gave them somewhere to start. Susie also felt relieved that now her family are figuring out the story because she isn’t able to speak with them in a way to explain everything. If something like this happened to a close friend of mine or family or if it happened to me I would do the same and would hopefully expect the same from someone
Author: Alice Sebold
Text Type: Novel
Lovely Bones is a breath taking novel written by Alice Sebold. Through-out the novel Alice is portraying some disturbing and thought provoking ideas such as; Guilt and responsibility, memory, isolation and surviving grief. Lovely bones is a story of a teenage girl Susie Salmon who after been raped beaten and killed by her old neighbour Mr Harvey, watches from the in-between world her family and friends surviving the grief and struggle to move on with their lives while she tries to comprehend her own death.
A character that I found particularly disturbed by was Mr Harvey. “I was aware that Mr Harvey was looking at me strangely. I’d had older men look at me like that since I lost my baby fat.” Mr Harvey sounded just like your average neighbour, he spent a lot of time in his garden, sitting at home reading newspaper and drinking tea, but there was something about him that was weird. The way he would always look over at the Salmon girls, smile and wave to them just didn’t seem right, a lonely 36-year-old man giving teenage girls attention? Some may think he was just being kind …show more content…
She was becoming everything all at once. A woman, a spy a jock. One man alone.” This was one of the major turning points in the novel for the family and Susie. I felt terrified for Susie’s sister and respected the bravery of her live even to go have a look through Susie’s murderers (Mr Harvey) house to find some form of evidence. She ran home and showed her father and grandmother and it gave them some form of hope. They might not have wanted to hear the truth but it gave them somewhere to start. Susie also felt relieved that now her family are figuring out the story because she isn’t able to speak with them in a way to explain everything. If something like this happened to a close friend of mine or family or if it happened to me I would do the same and would hopefully expect the same from someone