The Lovely Bones

Losing someone you love and deeply care about is something us humans avoid talking about. We each deal with loss and grief in different ways, and this is something the novel, ‘The Lovely Bones’ written by Alice Sebold, emphasized. Sebold effectively uses a range of techniques to express this idea, including first person narrative, pathetic…

Analyze how the writer uses a character for a symbolic purpose in an extended written text you have studied. Most of the character’s in Alice Seabed’s The Lovely Bones, are strongly characterized and bring qualities that we, as readers, can relate to and understand, helping us to empathic with the family and Susie. There is…

Written by Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones is a book that I am currently on page 200 of. It tells the story of fourteen-year-old narrator Susie Salmon, who was tragically murdered on December 6, 1973. The culprit behind her death is Mr. Harvey, a neighborhood figure who was well-liked by her parents, Jack and Abigail…

Susie Salmon, our central protagonist, is our narrator throughout the story. What early impressions do we gain of her here through her narrative voice? Sebold, the writer, uses a strange method of revealing the main problem of the story instantly, Sebold writes “My murderer” right at the start of the opening paragraph. This gives the…