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    character’s in Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones‚ are strongly characterized and bring qualities that we‚ as readers‚ can relate to and understand‚ helping us to empathize with the family and Susie. There is one character however‚ that of George Harvey‚ Susie’s rapist and muderer‚ who is purposefully characterized in a way that most members of society could not begin to understand. Cruel‚ calculating‚ cold and cunning‚ Mr Harvey is the very symbol of evil in The Lovely Bones and helps to show the audience how

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    After a loss in a family‚ it’s hard for the loved ones to cope. It seems surreal to them that someone so close to them was gone‚ never to be seen again. In “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold‚ the main character‚ Susie Salmon is raped then murdered. Each of her family members is traumatized by her horrific death and goes through stages of recovery in their own way. Susie‚ who has gone to “her heaven”‚ is coping with her own death as well. The poem‚ “Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep” by Mary Frye

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    “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold tells a story of a teenage girl who was raped and murdered by her strange neighbor. Susie Salmon watches from heaven as her family moan over her death. The author illustrates a main concept of grief over a death of a loved one. In the novel‚ each of the family members takes on a different notion of grief. Susie Salmon’s father‚ Jack Salmon had difficulties overcoming the loss of his oldest daughter. His initial reaction was anger. To bring justice for his daughter’s

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    Coming of age can be a difficult process not only due to an acceptance of new experiences‚ but also moving forward from one’s past experiences. This is certainly the case in the novel The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. The main character‚ Susie‚ comes of age after she accepts her position in heaven and stops trying to live through her loved ones on Earth. Susie seems to be able to accept her death to some extent‚ but refuses to monitor her loved ones on Earth. At first she finds interest in her

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    The book The Lovely Bones is about a young girl named Susie Salmon that was murdered at the age of fourteen. Susie is the narrator of the story and she tells her story and watches her family and friends try and catch the killer. But she is having a hard time getting her family’s attention while she is in heaven. She starts to get bored in heaven and depressed and she starts to watch her family fall apart because of her death. The book talks about more of her heaven and how she is not enjoying her

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    Title: The Lovely Bones Author: Alice Sebold Genre: Extended Written Text (Novel) Interviewing Joey Nathan about the novel. Dominique: Who introduced you to this novel? Or how did you come across it? Joey: Well I had seen the film not long after it was released and thoroughly enjoyed it‚ so I decided to get the book out at the town library. It was one of the first books I have read that deals with the aftermath of death. Dominique: What’s it about exactly? Joey: Well basically a teenage

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    Danielle Loeffler Comparative Literature Paper 1 March 12‚ 2013 In the novel‚ Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat there are various themes that are portrayed and symbolized throughout the novel. Amabelle‚ an orphaned Haitian maid‚ struggles with the idea of letting go of the past‚ the tragedy of death‚ and loss. According to the quote by Barbara Christian‚ she states‚ “among the folk who speak in muted tones of color‚ feminists‚ radical critics‚ creative writers‚ who have struggled for much

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    two long bones‚ the fibula and tibia‚ which are situated beside each other. The fibula bone lies on the lateral side of the lower limb and forms joints with the tibia bone and the talus bone in the ankle region. Fractures of the tibia generally are associated with fibula fracture‚ because the force is transmitted along the interosseous membrane to the fibula. Fibular fractures may be complete‚ incomplete or displaced fracture. Fibular fractures are usually simple injuries‚ because the bone supports

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    Famous writer‚ Virginia Woolf‚ once said‚ “The beauty of the world has two edges‚ one of laughter‚ one of anguish‚ cutting through the heart asunder.” The Lovely Bones is a book about a fourteen year old girl named Susie Salmon. Shortly after the book begins‚ an abrupt turn takes place; the reader learns that young Susie Salmon was murdered and raped by a man. The rest of the book focuses on the family of Susie Salmon and how the death of their daughter drives them to the brink of insanity. While

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    9/16/12 Period 1 Summer Reading Essay: The Lovely Bones There is always a time in a person’s life when they feel threatened by the fact that sometimes imminent death comes sooner to some than others. Alice Sebold talked about the results of that situation in The Lovely Bones. That person was‚ Susie Salmon‚ who was raped and killed on her way home from school‚ at the age of 14. The remaining four members of her family all deal differently with their grief throughout the book. Her father begins

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