The Lovely Bones Book Report

The sudden disappearance of Susie Salmon, age 14, shocked the people of a small town in Pennsylvania. This distressing event happened on December 6, 1973 and it is now presumed that it was a murder. This crime was believed to take place in Stolfuz cornfield which is right behind the Junior High. Some horrific evidence has recently been discovered by a neighboring dog. No specific information has been released due to the investigation process that the police have to uphold. In a recent interview with head detective on the case, Len Fenerman, when asked if they have any leads at this point in the investigation, he answered, “As of right now we don’t have any specific leads but we are trying our hardest to find any piece of evidence that will

At the beginning of the book, a murder happened, which caused grief to the victim's parents, close friends, and her boyfriend. The victim of the murder was Susan Dempsey, she was found strangled to death on her school

George Harvey is always depicted as the vile, relentless murderer behind the rape and death of Susie Salmon, the protagonist of the novel Lovely Bones. It is easy for the reader to show absolutely no pity for this character. However, in Chapter 15, the author Alice Sebold converts this heartless soul into an individual that urges the reader to offer him sympathy instead. Sebold begins the chapter by reflecting on the tremendous amount of hardships that George Harvey endures in his childhood. As a child, George and his mother depend on each other, as they struggle through life in poverty and dread the presence of his father. Alongside his mother as her accomplice, they turn to theft as a method to receive food and resources behind his

“Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.” -Alice Sebold. Alice Sebold the author of Lovely Bones creates a story of depression, guilt, and grief with the murder of Susie Salmons. In Lovely Bones the death of Susie affects all those close to her, like her mother, her father and her classmates. Her father grieves with despair as the murderer has yet to be caught. Her mother can not handle her disappearance and finds unnerving ways to cope. Susie’s classmates, Ruth and Ray both find ways to cope with each other and through other connections with Susie. A death of a loved young one is one no one is ever ready for. The grief starts and people find ways to feel guilty. If no mental aid is present the associates will

The main character, Charlie must navigate through it even while feeling motionless and scared. He tells his story to the reader from his perspective. The reader sees life from exactly the way he sees the events and understands those events through a teenage boy’s eyes. The crisis is introduced when the town outcast Jasper Jones asked Charlie, a bookish young nobody of a boy for help. The reader sees Charlie’s internal conflicts of wanting to go with Jasper, feeling terrified, excited yet so wanting to be accepted by him Charlie does in fact sneak out in the middle of the night with his new friend. Jasper takes Charlie to the scene of the crime where Jasper’s girlfriend is hanging from a tree. The manner that Silvey describes Charlie’s reaction to the hanged girls is true to human nature, “I’m screaming, but they are muffled screams. I can’t breathe in. I feel like I’m underwater. Deaf and drowning.” This description foreshadows the solution to hide the body and Jasper and Charlie throw Laura Wishart into the lake. Unknown to either is Laura Wishart’s sister, Eliza. She witnessed the suicide of her sister and wrote the word “sorry” on the stump of the tree before she leaves. Charlie and Jasper find this word, assume that the killer wrote it there, and immediately jump to the

Harvey’s reign of terror had already been going on for a while when Susie died. When Len Fenerman, the useless detective, investigated Harvey’s house, he gained nothing but some empty names: Leah, and Sophie, and the usual dollhouse story. In fact, the only real clue Len got

In the fall, Grandma Lynn calls Jack and says she's moving in. That December, Mr. Harvey has been gone over a year, and nobody has been able to find him. Susie feels sorry for Len Fenerman because he didn't solve the crime in time or get the lady. (Apparently, when Abigail left for California, she cut all ties to Len.) Len feels extremely guilty for not solving Susie's case.

“Who killed your parents Jackie? What is going on!”, I yelled as I realized I was so out of the loop. This was all too much for one moment. First the gash on her neck and now I find out her parents are dead. I started to wonder if she was crazy, how could they be dead and she just wanted to run away? Something had to be wrong, this could not be happening.

She went to an interrogation and sworn testimony. Lola has been examined and Brinoy feels good about what she did. Cecilia is walking worried through the room and she looks angry to Briony, because she can’t believe the story from her sister. In the living room is everyone waiting for Robbie. Briony get the letter out of Cecilia’s room and is showing it the policeman, Leon an her mom Emily. Cecilia is angry about it and will that they stop to read her letter. Emily is saying to Cecilia that she could prevent that if she had shown the letter earlier. In the morning Robbie is coming back whit the twins. Everyone is happy that the twins are back. The policeman is taking Robbie in the car and they are driving away.

She also contacts her father who she hasn’t seen for many years. To complicate the story a local boy, Dylan, goes missing and Sunny joins the search for him along the creek and at the waterhole. Dylan was pig shooting with his father Gary and Kevin when he went missing. Rumours start going around the district and Kevin is suspected of foul play.

After Amelia Donaghy has careful investigation with Lincoln Rhyme on the bone and piece of paper, they find out that the piece of paper is actually a clue to the whereabouts of the murder’s next victim. Without further ado, they rush to the location where the killer plans to kill Lindsay Rubin. Even though their prediction was accurate, it was already too late to rescue Lindsay Rubin. After finding the body of Lindsay Rubin, Amelia Donaghy finds a bone removed from the victim lying next to another piece of paper. Discussing the matter with Lincoln Rhyme, they quickly find the next place that the killer is planning to murder another victim.

takes us to the scene of her murder describing the manner of her brutal rape and death. Following this first chapter the book follows the attempts of the Ada police department as they try to solve the murder of Debbie Carter, and also the abduction of Denice Haraway a few years later.

Annie has a hard time dealing her mother's death and the disappearance of her sister, and an unusual presence she suspects in her childhood home. Her sister, Nichole Barlow went to San Pedro with her daughter for her mother’s funeral. She called Annie to help her with work, but Annie is having a hard time staying at her mother’s house due to bad times with her mother growing up and doesn’t want to go back to the house. Nichole convinces Annie

The internal conflict was that mr harvey was at struggle with his psychological issue as a serial killer and susie can't grasp the concept of her death and families plain

Due to her loving nature and maternal ways, Mark believes that his Aunt Susan has become his mother. Because he believes this, he feels safe, and comfortable enough with her to tell her about Henry’s misbehavior. Unfortunately, Henry has everyone on his side including his mother, Susan, who doesn’t believe her nephew Mark. One day, after thinking long and hard about what Mark had told her, Susan decided to wonder out to Henry’s shed. Here she found her deceased child’s toy, when Henry enters the shed Susan asks him why he had it. Henry quickly snatches it and runs. Once settling down, and walking through the woods, Susan asks if Henry killed his brother Richard, after Henry admits, he fakes suicide causing his mother to go looking for his body over the cliff he supposedly jumped. Once Susan was at the edge of the cliff Henry pushes her off of it – she catches herself, but as Mark intercepted the fight, both boys ended up hanging over the cliff braced to Susan’s hands. Having to make a hard decision, she decided to save Mark, and not her own son.