The Lovely Bones (Brielle Premont)

Title- The Lovely Bones


Author- Alice Sebold
Publisher- Little Brown
Pages-328
Where?- SHHS library
Summary- T he main character in this novel is a young teenager, Susie Salmon. She was one day walking home throughout the woods and her neighbor George Harvey asked her to come into this dugout . From their she was raped then murdered. Throughout the novel Susie is telling it from her point of view while she is in heaven looking down on her friends and family. Her family starts to give up except her father who is starting to suspect George being the cause of Susie missing. Susie goes into her friends body and end up talking to her boyfriend through her. It turns out that George had put Susie's body into a safe and dropped it into a lake. I think her family wanted to just know what happened so they can finally move on and get closure, which is what they got in the end.
Style- The authors style is somewhat graphic and leaves you in dispense.. She has a way of not wanting you to put the book down.
Passage One- “ I knew where my body was but I could not tell them. I watched and waited to see what they would see. And then, like a thunderbolt, late in the afternoon, a policeman held up his earth-caked fist and shouted. “Over here!”” Pg.23
Reason- I thought this quote was such a mind tricker. When I was reading it it thought they had found the body and the story was going to completely turn. But it turned out they didn't find her, they found her school book.
Passage Two- “ In those first two months my mother and father moved in opposite directions from each other. One stayed in, the other went out. My father fell asleep in his den in the green chair, and when he woke he crept carefully into the bedroom and slid into bed.”Pg.86
Reason- It seemed here that her family was falling apart very quickly after Susie disappearing.
Passage Three- “ In all the commotion of attending to her, George Harvey slipped between the Revolutionary War gravestones behind the church and walked away without being noticed.” Pg.112
Reason- Their were so many quotes where it seemed like no one would ever suspect George or question him. I liked this one because it turned out that her dad did end up questioning him.
Interaction- This book will make you feel so many different emotions. In one chapter your feeling bad for her family and the next your smiling because her young sister just got her first kiss. I loved the way Susie was telling the story and dropping hints to her family letting them know she loves them. The author shows how strong a family bond is in the sense of never giving up on someone you love. Her father went above and beyond to try every possible thing he could do to try and catch the killer I was kind of sad they didn't end up finding her body but it will still a great book...