Lovely Bones

The novel Lovely Bones, so far, is up to my expectations. It is exactly what I thought it would be. A murder happened and then the victim is telling her story from heaven. The only unexpected moment was the fact that everyone thought the neighbor George Harvey was suspicious but they didn’t do anything about it. Susie’s father clearly tells the detective that he did it, but when the detective goes and searches Mr. Harvey’s house he just ends up feeling sorry for him and leaves. The protagonist in the novel is Susie. She gets rapped and murdered. The conflict happening is that she wants to tell everyone that Mr. Harvey did it, but she can’t so, she is just watching everyone talk to him like he is just as upset as everyone else is. And she just has to wait and see if they ever find out what he’s really done. The issues Susie might have are, they could try blaming someone else for the murder and she would have to just sit and watch them get punished when she knows who really done it but can’t tell anyone. Or, they could never find the murderer. A detective that is working on the case had a wife who was murdered and they never found the murderer. Also, the parents would take her death so hard that they might end up doing something they would regret and Susie wouldn’t be able to stop them, just watch them harm themselves. I think I picked the right book for me. It’s an easy read and I can fully understand it. I always want to read more and more to see if George Harvey gets any more suspicious or caught with the crime of murdering Susie. [continues]

Read full essay