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The Lovely Bones Book Review
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'Thenovel Lovely Bones is a stunning and a life changing book'
ReplyDeleteBy the end of the first chapter the author has you just wanting to read more. I could not imagine even having a daughter and this happening to her. It really stunned me how in depth the author went into how she was raped and murdered. Towards the end of the book I started to realize that this is not a novel just about a girl being raped and murdered it is about how things happen to you good or bad but you just have to deal with it. That is what i think about the novel Lonely Bones.
I belive this book is very sad and depressing. Not only that, but it is also very unjust. If you have a half a heart then you'll be crushed in the first chapter. I was baffled at how much one person can change so many lives in a negative way. The crulty is worse than that of "The Kite Runner", When everyone shun's Hassan for being a Hazara. I am more of a happy side kind of guy. Between Susie getting raped, and the destruction of her family is just hard to take in.It's almost as if nothing good ever happens. She's murdered her mom commits adultry,and her father goes looney. Not to mention her sister never fully recovering from the whole ordeal. The only one that really wasn't was Buckly.Alice coudn't even write a just ending. Harvey gets hit in the head with a ice-sickle, and falls into a ditch. I mean come on! You don't have to have a night in shining armor, but something like that would have been appreciated.
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ReplyDeleteI belive that the story "Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold. Has done so well due to the depth and detal that Sebold uses in the book. Sebold seemed to take her time explaning whats going on. While at the sametime not overwelming the reader with to much detals.This is also why Ifind it so amazing thatshe can do this and still not have to hold back any of the emotional punch. For example when Susies father decided to destroy all of the bottle ships in his study. To me that was a vary sad moment and was the only time Iacualy had to stop reading for a few menuts. While I think that this is the best example of my opinon there are many more of them. That is why I belive that this book was vary well done.
I believe there are many life lessons in this novel (Lovely Bones). Through good there is evil and through evil there is good. Without evil there would not be good, but we will have to overcome the evil by doing good and not the evil. People that keep running redlights are not goning safe if they keep running them. They are eventually going to get hit. Example: Mr. Harvey, he keeps raping and murdering girls and he never gets caught or hurt or anything! Then one day Mr. Harvey runs that redlight and gets hit. Mr Harvey gets hit by a piece of ice and it kills him. What am trying to say if you keep doing bad things or things your not supposed to do; it is going to catch up with you. Also, another life lesson is when bad things hurt you and keep you from your dreams and happiness. Do not just back down and give up. You and I are going to have many opstacles to overcome in life and we just have to keep going and never quit, sure we maybe sad, depressed. We just have to know that god is with us and are family has are back. To overcome these difficulties do good instead of evil.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. The way Sebold had you always on feet and starving for more. The symbols that represented in the book were a bracelet, ships in the bottle and particular the snow globe. Sebold talk about a penguin in a snow globe being lonely while everything around him was taking its course in life.” The penguin was alone in there I thought, and I worried for him…Don’t worry Susie; he has a nice life. He’s trapped in a perfect world.” It relates with Susie so well because she trapped in her on perfect world of heaven and life on Earth is moving on. Another thing that seems common was snow. There was snow on the ground when Susie was murder and well there is snow that surrounds the penguin in the snow globe. “The two of us watched the snow fall gently around.” It also had been snowing when Mr. Harvey dies. The penguin and Susie are trapped in perfect isolated worlds. They are catalytic, they watched as everything changes around them, except themselves.
ReplyDeleteIn “The Lovely Bones” author, Alice Sebold tells an outstanding tale of murder, rape, life, death, and eventual peace. Susie Salmon is raped and murdered at 14 years old. She finds herself in heaven being rewarded almost anything she desires. She spends 10 years watching her family, friends, and murder go on with their lives. She watches their dreams and thoughts learning more than imaginable. At the end of the, book quiet some time after Susie finds peace with her life she watches Mr. Harvey pick a victim and follow her home. Susie notices an icicle hanging above his herd, the perfect murder weapon, it falls knocking the man off balance and taking a fall to the ice killing him. Some speculate that it was Susie’s icicle. I do not fully agree with Mr. Harvey’s death. I feel that it should have been much more equivalent to the brutal deaths of the girls he killed. He should have had to suffer and felt the humiliation that he made his victims feel. “The Lovely Bones” is a great novel very well written and a great read. I just wanted to see a more deserved death to the sick man.
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ReplyDeleteI don't agree.I didn't see it as sad and depressing it had more depth then that. It was about how the healing of a family when all was taking. I liked how you use the Kite Runner. Great evidence.
Jarrett
I agree. It really did make me want to read more and see what happen. Who knows what going to happen. We have to take the good with the good and the bad with the bad. When all good or bad has come knockin on the door the only thing is to deal with it.
Adri
ReplyDeleteI completly agree with the fact that he diserved MUCH MORE for all he had done.
Danielle
ReplyDeleteI don't agree that she ws in a perfact world like the penguin in the snow globe. It is almost as if she was tormented by the fact that she could watch, but not help. It's more like a cage to her a majority of the book. Being so close but so far away must have been hell"figeratively speaking".
Adri
ReplyDeleteBut then again good guy's finish last...
Mulder
ReplyDeleteI agree on how she did go into depth but not too in depth.
Magic_Mustang
I liked how you used there is no good without no evil.
Danielle
I agree. I liked how you used the penguin in a snow globe.
jarrett i do agree. The book draws my attention from the very first lines. i want to keep reading and see what is going to happen and whatever happens is going to happen no matter what , but the question is can we deal with it.
ReplyDeleteSeth
i do agree because it is sad because a young girl looses her life and the family is destroyed , but at the end everything comes back. The end the family is back but there going to have to deal with the loss.
Adri
I agree and feel the same way because what you do to others should happen to you , so you can no how much suffering and pain others are going through
magic
ReplyDeleteI totaly agree if a person keeps doing something like o I don't know robbing a bank they will chught sooner or latter.
Danielle ,Seth
I dissagree you Danielle but do agree with Seth it did seem that she was tormented by the fact that she couldn't help her family through the whole thing.
Mulder
ReplyDeleteI agree. The author didn't need to put much detail in the book, it just automatically caught your attention.I liked how you use the ships in the bottle to describe that only the actions of her father explain how hurt he was.
Chase,
ReplyDelete"Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." Romans 21;12
But I do agree wtih the life lessons learned. It seems like you missed the healing prosses that the family and Susie all go through.
Blake,
I agree with you. The book was very emotionly deep. The book kept the reader very involved. It was sad and happy in the same page it was hare to bear but easy to read.
Seth,
I agreed with a lot of what you wrote except, "I was baffled at how much one person can change so many lives in a negative way" I dont think susie had a begitive effect at all. I mean they went thorugh hard stages but that is part of the grieving process. Ruth and Ray became very sucessful in life. Lindsey raised a family. They all had a hard time but learned and grew.