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Mr. Salmon In John Steinbeck's The Lovely Bones
In The Lovely Bones there are many things that go badly such as when Susie cuts through the Cornfield and meets Mr. Harvey on the other side. It even gets worse when she says yes to go and see the structure that he has build, she goes inside and the he kills her. Later in the book Mrs. Salmon starts to have an affair with Jack because she likes detective Fenerman. A couple weeks later Lindsey fakes an injury of the soccer field so that he coach will let her go home early and then she breaks into Mr. Harvey’s house. When she is in the house Mr. Harvey hears the boards creek so he runs upstairs and he sees Lindsey’s jersey number. Later on in the book Jack has a heart attack and is rushed to the hospital, he lives though. Finally Mrs. Salmon

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