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The Lovely Bones Character Analysis
In the novel ‘The Lovely bones’ written by Alice Sebold is about a 14 year old girl named Susie Salmon who got murdered by Mr Harvey, who to her family is just another friendly neighbour. Susie finds it hard to grasp the fact that she has died and can't go back to her family. Instead she has to watch her family go through her death and not know what happened to her. While all this happening, Susie has to watch her murderer get another target which happens to be her sister.
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