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//**The Lovely Bones**//

Prepared By: Crismerolin, Perla, Marcelly, and Pamela


 * TABLE OF CONTENTS**

“Don’t start //**The Lovely Bones**// unless you can finish it. The book begins with more horror than you could imagine, but close with more beauty than you could hope for.” –Christian Science Monitor
 * Introduction
 * Biography of the author
 * Setting
 * Characters
 * Plot
 * Conflict
 * Pont of view
 * Themes
 * Photos from the movie
 * Compared the book with the movie
 * Introduction of the book**

Once in a generation a novel comes along that taps a vein of universal human experience, resonating with readers of all ages. **//The Lovely Bones//** is such a book-a phenomenal #1 bestseller celebrated at once for its narrative artistry. Is luminous clarity of emotion, and it’s astonishing power to lay claim to the hearts of millions of readers around the world.

“My name was Salmon, like the fish: first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.” So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected eves as she is watching life on earth continue without her –her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks , her grief-stricken family unraveling. Out of unspeakable tragedy and loss, **//The Lovely Bones//** succeeds, miraculously, in building a tale dilled with hope, humor, suspense, even joy.
 * //“The Lovely Bones//** //seems to be saying there are more important things in life on earth than retributions, like forgiveness like love//.” –Conan Putnam

After high school, Sebold, in an attempt to distance herself from her family, enrolled at Syracuse University in upstate New York in the fall of 1980. But during her first year at the school, Sebold suffered a horrific event that would change her life. While walking back to her dorm one evening, she was brutally attacked and raped in a tunnel. Sebold eventually made it back to her room where friends took her to the hospital. After reporting her case to the police, one of the officers said she was "lucky" to be alive. Not long before, another rape had occurred in the same tunnel where Sebold had been attacked, that had resulted in a woman's death and dismemberment. Sebold's attacker was eventually apprehended and sentenced to prison but, not surprisingly, finding closure wasn't easy for Sebold. "In my world, I saw violence everywhere," she later wrote. "It was not a song or a dream or a plot point." She was, however, determined to move forward, and returned to Syracuse to finish her degree. Sebold's immediate post-college years only brought more trauma. Her parents, unable to process what had really happened to their daughter, proved to be of little support. After a failed attempt at graduate school in Texas, Sebold landed in New York City, where she started experimenting with heroin. But there were some glimmers of hope. While working in an adjunct professorship position at Hunter College, Sebold discovered her gift for teaching. She then relocated to California and took a position as the caretaker of an arts colony. Sebold's living conditions put her in the middle of the woods without electricity, where she learned to embrace solitude. She also continued to write, experimenting with a novel about the rape and murder of a young girl that she tentatively called Monsters. After some time, Sebold enrolled at University of Irvine for graduate school, where she met her husband, writer Glen David Gold. She graduated with an MFA in 1998.
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 * BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR**


 * Commercial Success**

The story of Sebold's life and rape became the subject of her first book, a memoir called **//Lucky//**. Its name was inspired by the policeman who'd remarked that she was fortunate to be alive following her attack. Broader fame came in 2002 when **//The Lovely Bones//**, a revised and edited incarnation of Sebold's earlier novel about the rape and murder of a young girl, was published. The book, whose narrator tells her story from beyond the grave, shot to the top of most "best" lists in 2002, earning ebullient praise from critics and outpacing the sales from works from more established authors, like Tom Clancy and Stephen King. Some even dared to call it the most successful debut novel since Gone with the Wind.

In addition, the book earned Sebold the Bram Stoker Award for First Novel in 2002 and the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction the following year. In 2009, a film version of **//The Lovely Bones,//** starring Mark Wahlberg and Susan Sarandon, was released. Five years after **//The Lovely Bones//** first hit bookshelves, Sebold published her second novel,**//The Almost Moon//**, which tells the story of the murder of an elderly woman by her suburban daughter in a fit of rage. Personal Life

Alice Sebold lives with her husband in San Francisco. //"They seemed to have more fun, more freedom, and more personality."// -Alice Sebold

=**SETTING**= Mostly Suburban Pennsylvania (called Norris town in the film version) the story begins on December 6, 1973 and ends on 1984. The novel also specify moments in where Ruth Connors went to New York City, Mr. Harvey to Connecticut and Maine, and Abigail Salmon to California. The firsts few characters are narrate in Mr. Harvey and the salmon house. There’s many occasion in where Susie is at school with her crush Ray and moments in where Lindsey is practicing in the soccer field =**CHARACTERS**= > Susie, (Main Character and narrator of the story) She has been raped and murdered and from heaven she explain what has happened to her and how her, her family and her friends are dealing with her dead.

> Mr Harvey, ( antagonist)He is who raped and kill Susie and many others girls. Experience of his childhood were who made him a killer, he try to hind the man he is by making doll house int he baseman but sometimes it seems to not work out.

> Jack Salmon, (Father) He works for an insurance agency in Chdds ford, Pennsylvania. He felt guilty about Susie’s dead because he feels that he didn’t protect her as a father were supposed to protect his daughter. While the time pass and he he didn’t have the sufficient evidence of who kill Susie, he convert into a man full of vengeance, violence and revenge. > Lindsey Salmon, (younger sister) she is the strongest one of the family and even thought she do not show it she suffers in pain the lost of her older sister Susie. She try her best to fill the emptiness that her sister left after her dead.

> Buckley, ( youngest brother) the fact that hes just four years old prevent him to know the truth about what happen to his older sister Susie. Sometimes he says to see her but nobody believe him because he is just a little boy.

> Abigail Salmon, (mother), whose growing family frustrated about what she wanted to do with her young life.After has an affair with Detective Len Fenerman she leave her family of two kids and her husband.

> Lyn ( grandmother) she is the one keeping the family together after Susie dies. When Abigail left she stays in the house with Jack, Lindsey and Buckley.

> Ruth a girl Susie went to school with, whom her dead spirit touches as she leaves the earth. She becomes fascinated with Susie, despite barely having known her in her life, and devotes her life to writing about the visions of the dead she sees.

> Ray Singh, the first and only boy to kiss Susie. Was first suspected by the police of murdering Susie, after they found a letter of him in her notes.

> Clarissa, Susie's best friend on Earth. Susie explains that she admired Clarissa because she was always allowed to do things Susie was not, like wear platform shoes and smoke.

> Len Fenerman, the police detective in charge of investigating Susie's death, who later has an affair with Abigail.

> Holly and Franny Susie best friends in heaven. Holly was the one who is teaching Susie to let go of the earth. After a while of talking to Susie they confess that Mr. Harvey has also kill them and many other girls. =** PLOT **= =**Point of View**= The Lovely Bones is told as a first person. Susie the Narrator is the one who tell the story of what happen to her showing the reader what she is seeing and experiencing after she die and go to her heaven.
 * In 1937 Susie salmon was killed she was 14 years old.
 * Susie took a short cut home from school through a cornfield.
 * Susie saw Mr. Harvey her neighbor, he asked her if she want to take a look at an underground that he builder.
 * Mr. Harvey raped her and murdered Susie.
 * Mr. Harvey cut her body into a part and he put her into a old safe and throw her in a sink hole.
 * Susie spirit was on the transits to get to the heaven.
 * The Salmon family at first don’t believe that Susie was dead until the police tell them that they found Susie elbow.
 * Susie’s dad and Lindsey start to suspect about Mr. Harvey.
 * Ray and Ruth became friends.
 * The detective tell the Salmo’s that they are going to stop Susie case.
 * That night Susie’s dad looked out the window and saw a flashlight in the field. He though Mr. Harvey was destroying the evidences.
 * Jack went to the cornfield with a baseball bat.
 * It was Clarissa who was waiting for Brian, they were dating.
 * Susie watched everything from the heaven.
 * Brian beats Susie father to death.
 * Susie mother Abigail cheated on Jack with the detective Fenerman.
 * Lindsey tried to help her father to prove that Mr. Harvey killed Susie and she went to Mr. Harvey house.
 * Lindsey found a paper where Harvey have information of all the girls that he ben killing including Susie.
 * Lindsey show the paper to her grandmother and the show to the police, but they did not arrest him.
 * Mr. Harvey leave Norristown.
 * Susie found out Harvey killed others girls before her including friends from heaven.
 * Susie meets Harvey the other girls in heaven and sees into his traumatic childhood.
 * Susie’s mother leaves Jack and start working at a winery in California.
 * Susie’s grandmother moved into the house to take care of Lindsey and her little brother
 * Lindsey moved it her boyfriend after college and got engaged.
 * Harvey went back to Norristown he notices the school was expanded to the cornfield where he killed Susie
 * Harvey went to the sinkhole where he drop the body part of Susie
 * Ruth felt that Susie was coming.
 * Susie and Ruth exchange spirit.
 * Susie spirit was on Ruth body Ray felt Susie presence and he was shack because he saw Susie in the front of him.
 * After that Susie went back to heaven and moved into a large part looking everything that was happening in earth.
 * Lindsey and Samuel had a daughter named Abigail Suzanne.
 * Mr. Harvey falls to his death when he was hit on the shoulder by an icicle while he was stalking a girl.

=**CONFLICT**= The conflict of The Lovely Bones is that the police and Susie’s family couldn’t figure out who had killed her, why that person had done it and what happened to her. It was hard to understand why someone would kill her because she was such a nice little girl. It was very frustrating for her family to realize that she was dead. Also, it was herder for them since the police couldn’t find the killer. This frustration conduce to separate her family, all changed their way of being. The novel is a Bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story. Even though Susie is dead, she manages to grow up while in heaven, as her tone and perspective as a narrator changes throughout the novel.
 * THEME**

Much of the novel concerns itself with grief and how it is, or is not, overcome by Susie's family.

The disintegration of the suburban nuclear family during the 1970s is also present, as Susie's death precipitates a chain of events which results in Abigail feeling trapped by her domestic responsibilities and ultimately leaving her husband. The book I found this book very interesting and detailed. In my opinion another main theme is violence, violence is present in most of the parts I have read so far. the story develops by using violence because the killer Mr. Havery kills Susie in a violent way. Mr.Harvey was abused by his mom when he was a child which can reflect on his behavior as an adult. Mr.Harvey killed many others innocent girls in many violent ways just how he killed Susie. Also, Susie's father turns a little aggressive when he can't find his daughter.

Peter Jackson’s //The Lovely Bones// is scheduled to hit theaters on December 11th 2009.


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** The difference of the book and the movie **

There is such a difference between the book and the movie The Lovely Bones. In the book Susie is raped and murdered described by Susie, in the movie Susie is on lo killed, the movie never shows when she was raped. Other thing is that in the book, heaven is a place in which you can get whatever you want, however you can only get it is you give up desiring certain things, in the movie said that Susie is in between in a place that she called heaven with a lot of imagination depending on what she desire. Also in the book Ray kissed Susie but in the movie Ray didn't kissed Susie. Another difference between the movie and the book is that in the book, Holly becomes Susie's roommate in heaven, in the movie Holly is just a victim of Harvey. In the book Susie talked about Harvey's childhood, in the movie she didn't. In the book Ray is one of the suspect in the movie he is not. In the book Harvey leaves town earlier but in the movie he leaves town later. Lastly in the book Susie uses Ruth's body to have sex with Ray, in the movie it's just a kiss. These are some differences between the movie and book. The Lovely Bones .

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