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In the book The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold does a remarkable job of making her characters realistic to her readers. Sebold does this by telling the story through the eyes of the victim, Susie Salmon, who sees and knows everything about everyone around her. What is great about this book is that the reader is taken on an emotional journey with the grieving family and with Susie.

Abigail, Susie’s mom, is a character who, I believe, portrays human weakness. She is the one character who refuses to deal with the fact that Susie is dead. Abigail becomes distant. As a realization of what is happening to Abigail, Susie describes the picture she took of her mom sitting in the backyard, a mom who she does not recognize, and
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