The Lovely Bones was written by Alice Sebold and published in 2002. It has been made into a motion picture. The book is related by a young, female narrator who has been murdered and exists in an unique after-life where she is able to view the negative impacts that her murder has on her surviving family and community. As she reflects on her own experiences and the experiences of her family she seeks to find solace in a complex world with an uncertain future.
Alice Sebold's first published book was a memoir of her rape as an eighteen-year-old college freshman. Titled Lucky because one of the policemen told her that she was lucky to be alive--not long befor...
Read more
There are always those books that touch us in many ways. They change in a ways that we thought were impossible. It's so bizarre how a novel can literally change who you are. For me that book is The...
Read more
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold retells the story of a young girl, Susie Salmon from her point of view while in heaven. Susie is murdered at age 14 by a nearby neighbor, Mr. Harvey and begins the book de...
Read more
This semester I have been reading a novel, which was written by Alice Sebold. It entitled The Lovely Bones. The story is narrated by the main character----Susie Salmon. It is about fourtee...
Read more
In her first novel `The Lovely Bones', Alice Sebold explores the effect of a death on a family, and how they can rebuild themselves in the aftermath. The novel causes the reader to rethink their ide...
Read more
The Lovely Bones was written by Alice Sebold in 2002. The novel is the story of a
young girl who was raped and murdered by a neighbor. From Heaven, the girl watches
her family and friends search for...
Read more
If there is one central theme in Alice Sebold's novel, The Lovely Bones, it would be that families can survive any catastrophe if the member love one another and stick together. In using this theme yo...
Read more
The local news broadcasts stories of rape, murder, shootings, kidnapping, and thievery to its audience daily. But what is it missing? Through these short segments and stories, the day-to-day life of s...
Read more
Death
Rape is one of the most horrible, isolating experiences possible. The quote ."..I kept saying that one word a lot. Don't. And I said please a lot too...almost everyone begged "Please" before ...
Read more
Alice Sebold
