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Sadness Nature Unique

In this portrait Frida draw herself in a desert background. Sending a message about feeling lonely. We also have in this paint the needles in her body what represent the pain all over her body. Agony and pain are the common themes of her work. These emotions are dramatically expressed in her painting, in "The Broken Column” Frida determined impassivity creates an almost intolerable tension. Pain is made vibrant by nails driven into her naked body. The opened body suggests surgery. Inside her torso, we see a broken ionic column. The corset's white straps put emphasis on her beautiful body. She stares straight ahead with dignity. Tears mark her cheeks, but her features refuse to cry. An immense and desolate plain in the background conveys physical and emotional misery.  MIN CHEN   The Lovely Bones Group Min, komlan

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTENT 1.biography of author 2.introduction

SETTING

CHARACTERS

PLOT

CONFLICTS 3.point-of-view 4.themes 5.links

1. Biography of author: Alice Sebold grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia. After graduating high school in 1980, she enrolled in Syracuse University where she has been attacked, beaten and raped. Months later, Alice randomly met her rapist and secured his arrest. After finishing her bachelor degree, she went for the graduate school at the University of taxes, and then moved to Manhattan, where she lived for 10 years.  2. Introduction:  In 1973, a 14-years-old girl named Susie Salmon is raped, killed and cut in pieces by a neighbor over the next few years, she watches from a personalized heaven as her family and friends go through the pain and the situation. Sometime she gets mad over the decisions or choices her family makes while looking over them.

Characters: 
 * Susie Salmon **, a 14-year-old girl who is raped, murdered and dismembered in the first chapter, and narrates the novel from heaven. 
 * Jack Salmon **, her father, who works for an insurance agency in Chadds ford, Pennsylvania 
 * Abigail Salmon **, her mother, whose growing family frustrated her youthful dreams and soon later has an affair with Detective Len Fenerman whose wife committed suicide. 
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Lindsey Salmon **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, Susie's sister, a year younger than she is, thought of as the smartest. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Buckley Salmon **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, Susie's brother, ten years younger than she is. His unplanned birth forced Abigail to cancel her plans for a teaching career. He sometimes sees Susie while she watches him in her heaven. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Grandma Lynn **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, Abigail's mother, who comes to live with her son-in-law and grandchildren after her daughter leaves. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">George Harvey **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, the Salmons' neighbor, who kills Susie and goes unpunished even though the Salmons come to suspect him, then leaves Norristown to kill again. Throughout the novel she refers to him as Mr. Harvey, the name she had addressed him by in life. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Ruth Connors **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, 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. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Ray Singh **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, the first and only boy to kiss Susie, and later, becomes Ruth's friend. Was first suspected by the police of murdering Susie, but later proves his alibi. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Ruana Singh **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, Ray's mother, with whom Abigail Salmon sometimes smokes cigarettes. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Samuel Heckler **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, Lindsey's boyfriend and later her husband. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Hal Heckler **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, Sam's older brother who runs a motorcycle repair shop. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Len Fenerman **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, the police detective in charge of investigating Susie's death, who later has an affair with Abigail. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Clarissa **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, Susie's the 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. She has a boyfriend named Brian. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Holly **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, Susie's the best friend and roommate in heaven. While the text does not say so explicitly, it is implied she is vietnamese-american. She has no accent, although she did on earth, and took her name from Holly Golightly in breakfast at tyffany’s//.// Her own life and death are never expanded upon. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Mrs. DeWitt **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, Mr. DeWitt's wife, an English teacher at Susie's school. She teaches both Lindsey and Ruth. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Mr. DeWitt **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, the boy's soccer coach at school. Mr. DeWitt encourages Lindsey, a successful athlete, to try out for his team. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Franny **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, Susie and Holly's "intake counselor" in heaven. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Holiday **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, Susie's dog.

Plot: On December 6,1973 in Norristown, PENNSYLVANIA, a suburb of Philadelphia, Susie Salmon takes a shortcut home from school. She is approached by a neighbor, George Harvey, a man in his mid-30s who lives alone and builds dollhouses for a living. He persuades her to enter an underground den he has recently built nearby. Once she enters, he rapes her, stabs her to death, then cuts her body into parts which are later dumped in a sinkhole. An elbow, the only part of Susie ever to be found, falls out of his bag as he returns home, disposing of the remaining parts of the body by putting them in a safe and dropping it into a sinkhole. Meanwhile, Susie's spirit flees toward her personal heaven. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> The Salmon family is at first reluctant to accept that Susie has been killed, but then accedes when Susie's hat and elbow are found. The police who talk to Mr. Harvey find him odd but see no reason to suspect him. Jack, Susie's father, becomes suspicious and later begins to harass the police about Harvey. Susie's sister Lindsey comes to share these suspicions. Jack, consumed with guilt over not having been able to protect his daughter, remains on extended leave from work and increasingly isolates himself at home. Buckley, the youngest child in the family of three, tries to make sense of all this as he starts school. One day late in the summer a detective named Len Fenerman comes to tell the Salmons that the police have exhausted all leads and are dropping the investigation. That night in his study, Jack looks out the window and sees a flashlight in the cornfield. Believing it to be Harvey returning to destroy evidence, he runs out to confront him with a baseball bat. It turns out to be Susie's best friend, Clarissa, and her boyfriend Brian looking for a place to make out. Brian and Jack struggle and Jack is struck with the bat. As a result he has to have knee replacement surgery. In the wake of this, his wife Abigail begins having an affair with Fenerman, who is a widower. The following summer Abigail leaves her husband, going to her father's old cabin in New Hampshire and then moving to California, taking a job at a winery. As a result, her mother, Grandma Lynn, moves into the Salmons' home to help her son-in-law care for Buckley and Lindsey. Still suspicious, Lindsey sneaks into Harvey's house and finds a drawing of the pit, but is forced to leave when Harvey returns prematurely. Sensing danger, Harvey leaves Norristown as soon as possible and becomes a drifter. A year later the police bulldoze the cornfield and turn up a soda bottle from the night of the murder with Harvey's and Susie's fingerprints, finally making him an official suspect. However, he remains at large. That fall, a hunter in Connecticut discovers the body of another one of Harvey's victims, and one of Susie's charms nearby. In 1981, a detective in Connecticut links the charm to Susie's murder and calls Fenerman. As they uncover further evidence, the police realize that Harvey is a serial killer. Lindsey and her boyfriend Samuel Heckler become engaged, find an old house in the woods owned by a classmate's father, and decide to fix it up and live there. Sometime after the celebration, while arguing with his son, Jack suffers from a heart attack. The emergency prompts Abigail to return from California, but the reunion is tempered by Buckley's lingering bitterness at her for having abandoned him and his father. Meanwhile, Harvey returns to Norristown, which has become more developed. He explores his old neighborhood and notices the school is being expanded into the cornfield where he murdered Susie. He drives by the sinkhole where Susie's body rests, and where Ruth Connors and Ray Singh are standing. Ruth, an old classmate of Susie's who had felt Susie's spirit go past her after her murder, senses the women Harvey has killed and is overcome. Susie, watching from heaven, is also overwhelmed with emotion and the two girls exchange positions. Susie, her spirit now in Ruth's body, kisses Ray, who had a crush on Susie in school, and they go to the back room in Hal Heckler's (the older brother of Lindsey's boyfriend Samuel) bike shop to make love. Afterwards, Susie returns to heaven. She moves on into the larger heaven, still watching earthbound events from time to time. She sees her sister's newborn baby girl, who is named Abigail Suzanne. One day she spies Harvey getting off a Greyhound bus at a diner in New Hampshire in early spring. Behind the diner he sees a young woman and attempts to speak to her, but she rebuffs him. Susie notices some large icicles hanging from the roof, and after the woman leaves, one falls and hits Harvey on the head, knocking him into a nearby ravine and ultimately killing him. The novel ends with Susie showing us Lindsey's newborn daughter, then tracking away to a newer house where a man has finally found Susie's old charm bracelet. "This little girl's grown up by now," his wife says. "Almost. Not quite," Susie's narrative voice rejoins. "I wish you all a long and happy life." Conflicts: <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Because Susie's character is narrating the story from her own personal heaven, there is some controversy over the depiction of the afterlife. Readers who took a Christian perspective faulted Susie's heaven for being utterly devoid of any apparent religious aspect. "It's a very God-free heaven, with no suggestion that anyone has been judged, or found wanting," Hensher stated. Sebold, who was raised Episcopalian, is not religious and therefore intended the heaven to be simplistic in design: <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things. It's also about discovery, and being able to come to the conclusions that elude you in life. So it's from the most simplistic things - Susie wants a duplex - to larger things, like being able to understand why her mother was always slightly distant from her. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Furthermore, Sebold has stated that the book is not intended to be religious, "but if people want to take things and interpret them, then I can't do anything about that. It is a book that has faith and hope and giant universal themes in it, but it's not meant to be, 'This is the way you should look at the afterlife'." <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">3. Point of view <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">“The Lovely Bone” describes a younger girl, Suzie Salmon was raped by her neighbor who had never been married. The murder was not only killed and cut Suzie’s body parts <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"> in pieces and deposit in the package bags. After that Suzie grows up in heaven and watches her family’s with gerif about her suffers. She sees her family frustrated, she still tring to live stronger in heaven. After her death event, Suzie father risks his life to try finding a murder who kills his daugher ,and her mother left the family with the detective who is in charge of Suzie case, and her grandmother moves into take care of her siblings, and her sister trying so hard to stay strong, and her brother struggling to understand why his sister is never coming back home. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> 4. Themes: The novel is a //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">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. 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. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> 5. links: